Flutterby™! : Happiness is a warm Uzi

The Wall Street Journal looks at the statistics behind gun ownership happiness. Barak Obama said:

They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or antitrade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Can't speak to religion or bigotry or a stance on immigration, but apparently he was wrong about guns:

Nor are they "bitter." In 2006, 36% of gun owners said they were "very happy," while 9% were "not too happy." Meanwhile, only 30% of people without guns were very happy, and 16% were not too happy.

In 1996, gun owners spent about 15% less of their time than nonowners feeling "outraged at something somebody had done." It's easy enough in certain precincts to caricature armed Americans as an angry and miserable fringe group. But it just isn't true. The data say that the people in the approximately 40 million American households with guns are generally happier than those people in households that don't have guns.

Via BoingBoing: Gun owners are the happiest people in the U.S.. In the comments, Sister Y observes:

... there's a positive correlation between gun ownership and suicide. That may be our answer - the gun owners left alive to answer the question are the happy ones. ...