"Baby, I got a really big...freedom."A decreasing number of American gun owners own two-thirds of the nation's guns and as many as one-third of the guns on the planet -- even though they account for less than 1% of the world's population, according to a CNN analysis of gun ownership data. The data, collected by the Injury Prevention Journal, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the General Social Survey and population figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, found that the number of U.S. households with guns has declined, but current gun owners are gathering more guns.
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So first of all, this is a group of people that is shrinking, yet acquiring more and more weapons. We're not talking about the household with a pistol or a hunting rifle. Were talking people who are building up arsenals. Who are they? Gallup says 34% of the public reported a gun in the household and 55% of those said the owner was a Republican. The vast majority of them live in the South and the Midwest. They are heavily male and have no college education. And yes, the great majority are white. In other words, these are the people Democrats just beat in the last election. So really, there's no reason Democratic office holders need to be afraid of the gun freaks. They were never on our side anyway.