“If The Polls Are Correct”

One must read Occam’s Razor before reading this story:

Here’s a riddle: If gun ownership is declining, why are so many guns being sold?

According to the General Social Survey, a project of the independent research organization NORC, the number of U.S. households with guns dropped from 50% in 1973 to 34% in 2012. This decline has shown up everywhere, including the historically gun-toting regions of the South and West.

According to researchers, just 23% of people in urban areas have guns, compared with 56% of country folk. Even that rural percentage is down from 70% in the 1970s. The number of hunters is dropping fast. Only 10% of women own firearms. Most young people are shunning guns — just 23% of those under 30 have guns now, compared with 47% four decades ago. Latinos are a growing segment of the population, but their gun ownership numbers are small….If the pollsters are correct, there are a whole lot of people in this country who live in an alternate reality woven from the exaggerations and outright lies of Internet fabulists, talk radio screamers and NRA propagandists. These people tend to be old, male and Republican — the same folks who have not given up on guns.

So, the answer to the riddle seems fairly obvious: While more and more Americans are finding guns unnecessary for sport or protection, the most paranoid among us are building personal arsenals and driving gun sales through the roof.

OR the poll isn’t correct. Last I checked I didn’t live in a rural area…yet the gun shops are bare. Other people in urban areas have noticed the same thing. Also this is happening just as frequently in blue states as red ones.

Occam’s Razor, the simplest solution to the riddle is the poll is wrong. But what happens when the writer of a left-wing fear-piece promoting anti-freedom WANTS the poll to be true?