HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN OWNER

[defrog]

ITEM [via BoingBoing, and you all saw this coming a mile away, didn’t you?]: The WSJ runs an op/ed by Arthur C. Brooks saying that, contrary to what certain elitist Muslim OJ-drinking non-bowling presidential candidates might think, gun owners are ANYTHING but bitter.

According to the 2006 General Social Survey, which has tracked gun ownership (and dozens of other things) since 1973:

• 34% of American homes have guns in them
• On average, gun owners have the same education level as non-gun owners
• Gun owners earn 32% more per year than nonowners.
• 36% of gun owners are "very happy" (compared to 30% of nonowners)
• 9% are "not too happy" (compared to 16% of nonowners)
• Gun-owning Republicans are more likely than nonowning Republicans to be very happy (46% to 37%)
• Democrats with guns are slightly likelier than Democrats without guns to be very happy as well (32% to 29%)
• Gun are more likely to give money to charity than people without guns (83% to 75%)
• Gun owners are more likely than those without guns to strongly agree that they would "endure all things" for the one they loved (45% to 37%)

See what they did there?

FUN FACT: Arthur C. Brooks is a visiting scholar at the pro-gun, pro-neocon, anti-Obama American Enterprise Institute. Not that has anything to do with the WSJ running this op/ed. I’m just saying.

Unarmed,

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