Gun ownership follows a fairly extreme pareto distribution where a few "gun nuts" (I could probably be considered one of them) own a dozen to several dozen guns, while most people will own zero or one.
It's the same thing with alcohol - the vast majority of it is consumed by alcoholics.
I'd think the average would be higher and the median would be somewhere around one, but I didn't do that well in statistics.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 15.5 ms ] threadThere are about 125m adult men in the US, and about 393m civilian-owned firearms, they would own 143.75m firearms.
Either this survey is significantly flawed, or US women and children own the remaining 249.25m firearms…
It's the same thing with alcohol - the vast majority of it is consumed by alcoholics.
I'd think the average would be higher and the median would be somewhere around one, but I didn't do that well in statistics.