Do numbers matter?

Just looking at numbers here.....

If this article is correct, roughly 1% of New Zealand's gun owners have followed their new confiscation scheme.

The article mentions Australia, so I looked at their numbers too. Roughly the same compliance rate, and gun ownership is *increasing* over the last few years.

I'm not going to dig deep, but to my knowledge the US states which have legislated bans of one form or another have seen microscopic compliance rates as well. This is not helped by most police agencies declining to actively enforce the bans.

In the US, gun ownership has been increasing by roughly 1,000,000 units every month since 1998 (as far back as I looked, that's over 20 years). The last gun club I belonged to had to limit new member applications to only 4 days per year. The next nicest one in the county does their new membership by lottery.

At this point, unlicensed or shall-issue concealed carry is at it's highest point in US history.... ever. In my own county, roughly 10% of the population has a concealed carry permit (the last time I checked with the Sheriffs office). Gun ownership in my county is at roughly 75% of the population.

While ownership, training, and concealed carry have been rising to their highest levels in the nations history, the FBI reports actual violent crime has dropped to near historical lows...... with the exception of a few very small areas in cities and states that lead the pack on restricting *legal* gun ownership.

Do numbers matter?

Discuss?