GY, no you can’t. And pretty much everything you said here is utterly stupid.

Strange how some don’t consider lumping all white gun owners in with the psychos to be at all racist.
If you are white and own a gun for self defense you’re “angry”, if you have more money than the next guy you are “fat”.
If you are white and didn’t vote for Obama you’re a racist, etc.
If you are black and didn’t vote for Obama you’re an uncle Tom.
I’ve heard more racist claptrap from supposed liberals than from anyone else.
In Rwanda black on black racism reached its peak. People killing members of another ethnic group that were so much like themselves that they had to check their ID to be sure of who to kill.
In LA blacks hate Koreans and vice versa. Some Latino Hispanics despise Mexicans.
There’s no monopoly on racism.

As for gun ownership rates going down, its more likely that the percentage of gun owners who would answer that question if asked is at an all time low.

Before guns were invented people did quite nicely using axes and spears.
Simple home made explosives are the weapon of choice for mass murder these days.
For every mass shooting incident there are dozens of truck bombings and suicide bombings.
Those who want to kill have always found a way.

As for outlawing guns, I can build a very effective handgun in less than an hour using only hand tools. There are far more skilled craftsmen than I building modern automatic rifles from scrap metal in caves in Pakistan using even more primitive tools than I have available to me.
You should see the FBI collection of guns manufactured in maximum security prisons including automatic weapons.

I agree that hunting does not have a lot to do with the 2nd amendment.

We have had a drop and/or plateauing of gun ownership and a decrease in violent crime. That’s a correlation. Having said that, I doubt that this correlation means a causal connection.

The NYT article states:
“It lines up, he said, with two evolving patterns in American life: the decline of hunting and a sharp drop in violent crime, which has made the argument for self-protection much less urgent. ”

Gun ownership has not been just about hunting, ever. Especially in the last 50 years. Any time a politician starts talking about the Second Amendment and hunting in the same sentence you can safely dismiss anything further he has to say.

Secondly, and this is the one that liberals just don’t get, did it ever occur to you that violent crime is down BECAUSE gun ownership is up? Why would crime be down otherwise? People are just becoming more honest? Police are getting better at stopping crime before it happens? The planets are in closer alignment?

No, the correlation is unmistakable. More guns means less crime. Somebody should write a book on that. Oh wait, John Lott already did.

What a bunch of dribble.

Gun and ammo sales have been off the charts since Obama usurped power in 2008. Ammo makers can’t crank it out fast enough. The shelves are bare. In Florida the number of CCW permit holders has swelled to well over a million. Classes are full nightly all over the state. The class I attended was over half first time gun owners. Gun shows all over the country have 1 hour waiting lines or more all day long just to get in. NRA membership has sharply jumped by more than a million members in the last 2 or 3 years. And there are many other groups that are growing as well. You don’t need a poll to see that gun ownership is not only rising but rising fast.

You should go back to digging rocks or whatever it is you do.