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Posted on 06/29/2017 5:54:04 AM PDT by Reno89519
An overwhelming majority of Americans view gun ownership as essential to their freedom. This is what a recent Pew Research poll discovered in a deep dive into the complex relationship Americans have with guns.
According to the poll... And its findings reflect the understanding of many clear-thinking Americans on the 2nd Amendment: for those who do own and use firearms, it is integral to who they are.
Guns are ubiquitous in our culture ... gun ownership is completely normal, and – contrary to what the gun grabbers and “security liberals” would have you believe – safe.
There is a direct correlation between higher levels of gun ownership and less crime. Urban areas have fewer lawfully obtained guns and higher levels of criminal activity.
A healthy 66 percent of gun owners, a significant portion of whom own more than one, would never consider not owning one. These people exist in a culture where gun ownership is the norm.
The survey results show a clear relationship between the conscious choice to own a gun and the exercise of personal freedom. Other studies on crime and gun owners have found that gun owners commit fewer crimes as a population than the police.
Of note: only 19 percent of those dwelling in urban environments, where crime is the highest, own guns.
Many Americans who do not own firearms have an almost compulsive desire to disarm law-abiding gun owners even as proof mounts against the efficacy of confiscation and disarmament.
Approximately seven out of ten Americans have fired a weapon at least once.
Again, guns are tools and Americans have experienced their use as normal. Guns aren’t going anywhere because Americans who own guns associate them with liberty and self-reliance. And that’s a good thing.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Oops! Excerpting caused error in catching the title. The title and full title is: “Most Americans know that owning a gun is an essential part of our freedom”
Love the stat that gun owners commit LESS crime than the police.
Most Americans know that owning a gun is an essential part of our freedom
How do you suppose it got changed like that?
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Being in the Army was the best thing that ever happened to me in terms of understanding firearms and learning good gun safety.
At least he didn’t blog pimp.
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Thank you for the post.
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There are 300,000,000 lawful, privately owned guns in America. If there was a problem with that, we would know it by now.
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By specifying "lawful" you are supporting the right of states and localities to ignore the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. What do they fail to understand about "shall not be infringed"?
I suggest substituting "law abiding".
As the article is written, if taken literally, it says gun owners commit less crimes than police. Did they mean both law abiding and non-law abiding gun owners combined commit less crimes than police?
That has been known for quite some time. If you look at the subset of gun owners who have CCW permits, the crime rate is minuscule. The rate it so low that it is lost in the noise floor of any statistics you might want to mention.
How about, uh, “several” guns?
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