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PEW Research: NRA Members Heavily Republican, Steeped in Gun Safety
breitbart.com ^ | 7/5/2017 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 07/06/2017 7:45:01 AM PDT by rktman

A PEW Research survey shows that NRA members are heavily Republican, steeped in gun safety, and nearly “unanimous” in the conviction that gun ownership is “essential” to freedom.

Moreover, the survey found that gun owners who are NRA members are twice as likely to carry a handgun for self-defense throughout the day than gun owners who are not NRA members.

According to PEW, 44 percent of gun owners who are NRA members said they were likely to carry a gun for self-defense whereas only 22 percent of gun owners who were not NRA members said the same. “NRA members are also significantly more likely than other gun owners to say they have a gun that is loaded and easily accessible to them at all times.” Fifty-four percent of NRA members spoke of keeping a gun close at all times, while 34 percent of gun owners who were not NRA members said the same.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; ccw
IOW, NRA members could go wack-O-doodle at a moments notice and shoot up a baseball fiel.................... Oh, never mind. Pew pew pew! Prayers up for Steve Scalise in his fight against an infection.
1 posted on 07/06/2017 7:45:02 AM PDT by rktman
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ABCCBSCNNMSNBCFOX/AP members: HEAVILY Democrat and loathe their country and all for which it stands.


2 posted on 07/06/2017 7:50:56 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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Be damned!

I would’ve never guessed.


3 posted on 07/06/2017 7:51:57 AM PDT by x1stcav (White. Male. Unreconstructed. Never owned a slave.)
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Those NRA members that lean Republican don’t subscribe to a Party whose plank is gun control. Duh...


4 posted on 07/06/2017 7:58:24 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: rktman

Jeez! Don’t spring these surprise facts on us!


5 posted on 07/06/2017 8:06:00 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (He is leading us in Making America Great Again!)
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Just wear kevlar with panels/plates around NRA members.


6 posted on 07/06/2017 8:08:08 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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They Have an Intuitive Grasp Of The Obvious !


7 posted on 07/06/2017 8:40:15 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to victory - Turkey President, Recep Erdogan)
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What is “cause” and what is “effect”?


8 posted on 07/06/2017 8:49:19 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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On the other hand, Planned Parenthood, which comprises mostly democrats, has murdered more humans than the NRA.


9 posted on 07/06/2017 10:26:32 AM PDT by DPMD
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