How Well Educated are Gun Owners?

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Posted: 8/19/2004 3:52:59 PM EDT

Ok. I've never done a poll or survey on this board but here goes.

IMHO some (or maybe most) of the public at large perceive gun owners as lacking in adequate formal education (i.e. ignorant white trash or prison guard types that have bred with close relatives). Some would probably say that if you own and/or are interested in guns/weaponry you are probably not a Harvard or Stanford alum (or if you are you are certifiable).

Now I think I can tell from reading the posts in this forum that the intellect of the members varies widely, just as it does in the general public. While how much formal education a person has does not necessarily correlate directly with intelligence, it is some indication. I know many bright and successful people never went to college.

So how much education do all you gun nuts out there have? Be honest in the poll. Lie all you want in your posted replies.

Posted: 8/19/2004 3:56:09 PM EDT

[#1]

Ok. I fail the IQ test. Someone tell me how to make a poll!

Posted: 8/19/2004 3:57:30 PM EDT

[#2]

There's an "add poll" button at the bottom.

ETA I have a college degree, yes.

Posted: 8/19/2004 3:58:34 PM EDT

[#3]

Thanks. Found it.

Posted: 8/19/2004 3:59:59 PM EDT

[#4]

Currently, some high school. Plans for a graduate degree: J.D., M.D., or Ph. D.

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:00:18 PM EDT

[#5]

change your sig line it wasn't picard that data was talking to it was tashia yarr<or how ever you spell it>

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:01:22 PM EDT

[#6]

Bachelor of Science

Master of Science

Working on Master of Education

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:03:45 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
change your sig line it wasn't picard that data was talking to it was tashia yarr<or how ever you spell it>

Are you sure. I ripped this off from some movie quate website. Come to think of it I think you are right.

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:04:35 PM EDT

[#8]

BSBA in Finance & Economics, but I work in Materials Management.

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:08:41 PM EDT

[#9]

I have a BBA in Finace with a minor in Real Estate
Also hold a Series 7, Series 66, and a state insurance licnese
I am working on getting a CFP, CLU, and ChFC

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:10:02 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Bachelor of Science

Master of Science

+1

Quoted:
Working on Master of Education

If I never take another class as long
as I live, it'll be too soon.

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:10:35 PM EDT

[#11]

Let's keep this going. The early results would seem counter intuitive to many. You guys are being honest aren't you? Maybe white trash don't have access to the internet. Vote if you're white trash and proud of it!

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:10:58 PM EDT

[#12]

I said 2-4 year degree. I guess that depends on who your comparing me to though. Some of the guys on this site, i guess I'd be in pre-k.

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:11:27 PM EDT

[#13]

I hope you were asking about my education level and not for me to guess what the avg. shooter is.

I have a BS in electrical engineering.

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:13:45 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Quoted:
change your sig line it wasn't picard that data was talking to it was tashia yarr<or how ever you spell it>

Are you sure. I ripped this off from some movie quate website. Come to think of it I think you are right.

Jesus, I hope so.

"<lisp> Data, please come to my ready room...tee hee hee </lisp>"

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:14:38 PM EDT

[#15]

BS, MS, DC, working on my MD.

Semper Fi

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:14:43 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
IMHO some (or maybe most) of the public at large perceive gun owners as lacking in adequate formal education (i.e. ignorant white trash or prison guard types that have bred with close relatives). Some would probably say that if you own and/or are interested in guns/weaponry you are probably not a Harvard or Stanford alum (or if you are you are certifiable).

You are so right.

I have a MSEE. Bunches of technical guys, well educated (extremely well), are conservative, and firearm friendly.

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:14:47 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
I hope you were asking about my education level and not for me to guess what the avg. shooter is.

I have a BS in electrical engineering.

Yes. Sorry if my question was ambiguous.

For the Record:

BS: Geology
MS: Geology

Did all the class work for a PH.D but got sick of the ivory tower mentality of academia.

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:15:32 PM EDT

[#18]

How Well Educated are Gun Owners?

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[ 0 ] Grade School [ 0% ]
[ 1 ] Some High School [ 3.85% ]
[ 0 ] High School/GED [ 0% ]
[ 14 ] 2 or 4 year College [ 53.85% ]
[ 14 ] Graduate Degree [ 53.85% ]

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Total Votes :: 26

I'm really liking the way the website compiles percentages!

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:16:21 PM EDT

[#19]

BS Chemical Engineering

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:16:32 PM EDT

[#20]

BSME and an avid firearms, beer, wine, food, and automobile ethusiast.

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:17:23 PM EDT

[#21]

High school plus a bunch of real world, I'm edumicated!

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:17:34 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
How Well Educated are Gun Owners?

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[ 0 ] Grade School [ 0% ]
[ 1 ] Some High School [ 3.85% ]
[ 0 ] High School/GED [ 0% ]
[ 14 ] 2 or 4 year College [ 53.85% ]
[ 14 ] Graduate Degree [ 53.85% ]

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Total Votes :: 26

I'm really liking the way the website compiles percentages!

No shit! New Math!

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:17:35 PM EDT

[#23]

The poll results add up to 116%. Regardless of your level of education, you must have slept through statistics.

BA -- Journalism, Texas A&M, 1977 (I am a recovering journalist. I stopped when I came to my senses and became a Reagan Conservative.)

M.Agr. -- Horticulture, TAMU, 1979 (As much a business degree as an agriculture degree.)

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:18:43 PM EDT

[#24]

MA in Education. Ya, I know, pathetic.

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:18:49 PM EDT

[#25]

Have a BA in English Literature. Work as a software engineer. Further proof that a degree is merely another hoop you're supposed to jump through.

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:20:10 PM EDT

[#26]

BSEE, MBA and a BMF to boot! That, and usually the FNG at each new assignment.

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:20:12 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
The poll results add up to 116%. Regardless of your level of education, you must have slept through statistics.

BA -- Journalism, Texas A&M, 1977 (I am a recovering journalist. I stopped when I came to my senses and became a Reagan Conservative.)

M.Agr. -- Horticulture, TAMU, 1979 (As much a business degree as an agriculture degree.)

Hey, I'm not compiling this. It's the website's code that can't do simple math!

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:36:22 PM EDT

[#28]

Bump.

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:48:41 PM EDT

[#29]

I may only have a Bachelor's degree but I know the numbers in that poll add up to more than 100%

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:54:43 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Bachelor of Science

Master of Science

+1

Quoted:
Working on Master of Education

If I never take another class as long
as I live, it'll be too soon.

I actually feel the same way yet I'm enrolled in 12 credit hours for Fall semester! I just checked my transcript and I have 159 undergraduate hours and 94 graduate hours!!

I must be insane!

Posted: 8/19/2004 4:56:32 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Are you sure. I ripped this off from some movie quate website. Come to think of it I think you are right.

Yeah, that would be pretty disturbing if Picard and Data were carrying on that particular conversation - I thought maybe you changed it on purpose!

FWIW, I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering and have also completed the Army's Armor Officer's Basic and Advanced Courses.

Dave

Posted: 8/19/2004 5:04:34 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Are you sure. I ripped this off from some movie quate website. Come to think of it I think you are right.

Yeah, that would be pretty disturbing if Picard and Data were carrying on that particular conversation - I thought maybe you changed it on purpose!

FWIW, I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering and have also completed the Army's Armor Officer's Basic and Advanced Courses.

Dave

I thought Picard was pimping for Data to nail Tasha. Too old.............can't remember..........

Posted: 8/19/2004 5:11:44 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
I may only have a Bachelor's degree but I know the numbers in that poll add up to more than 100%

Not a very representative bar graph either!

Posted: 8/19/2004 5:39:05 PM EDT

[#34]

I am starting my senior year at Miami University (though, I will be graduating the first semester of my third senior year since I'm doing a double major (music ed. and B.A. in music . . . and perhaps performance too which is only two or so more classes) ). Dean's list 3 out of 6 semesters. I'm hoping to go on to get a master's and perhaps a PH.D, but time will tell.

But I guess it isn't fair - I wasn't born a gun nut. I became one a mere three years ago.

Posted: 8/19/2004 5:47:46 PM EDT

[#35]

BA in Art - University of Arkansas. Go Hogs!
Haven't used it since I graduated - go figure. Seems I'm not in a small crowd there.

Posted: 8/19/2004 5:48:06 PM EDT

[#36]

Nice to see I hang out with an educated bunch. Masters in Education here.

Posted: 8/19/2004 5:52:41 PM EDT

[#37]

Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware.

Kharn

Posted: 8/19/2004 6:07:02 PM EDT

[#38]

Bachelors, Chemistry, Emory University 2001
Masters, Public Health, Rollins School of Public Health, 2004

Posted: 8/19/2004 6:14:06 PM EDT

[#39]

3+ yrs of college as well as tech schools each year for the last 25yrs in the telco biz. People don't believe me when I tell 'em I'm just a dumb switchman

Posted: 8/19/2004 6:21:19 PM EDT

[#40]

B.S....Sociology Major, with Minors in Biology and English. Took me 7 years, working nights. Then I realized the the B.S. Degree truly is BS!

If I were to do it over, I would have gone into a skilled trade.Most of the profs./instructors were liberal, arrogant asshats, who wallowed in "academia" as a be all, end all proposition, but had no idea how to change a flat tire. That was the '60s and '70s....I am sure things are different now.

Posted: 8/19/2004 6:21:58 PM EDT

[#41]

BA in European History, minor in German and French.
MA in Modern German Literature
MA post-bacc. teaching certification in German and Social Studies, Grades 7-12.

I raise my three kids now. They sure know a lot about history!

Posted: 8/19/2004 6:22:22 PM EDT

[#42]

Boy, you guys can sure rant for such an educated bunch!

Must be that white trash can't afford AR15s.

Posted: 8/19/2004 6:31:13 PM EDT

[#43]

B.S. Poly Sci. I quit law school after my first year. Now I build houses.

Posted: 8/19/2004 6:36:05 PM EDT

[#44]

BFA and MFA in Painting and Drawing...too bad that there aren't more shooters and AR owners in the art world.

Posted: 8/19/2004 6:37:29 PM EDT

[#45]

4 year degree

Posted: 8/19/2004 6:47:02 PM EDT

[#46]

<---- Still working on it

HS Diploma - Gulfport HS, Gulfport, MS (1994)
BS in Accounting - Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, HI (2003)
Master Public Administration - University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (currently enrolled)

-Randy