{"id":2015756,"date":"2023-08-29T16:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-democrats-fearmongering-on-firearms-a-majority-of-americans-own-guns-or-want-to-own-guns\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T16:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:22:58","slug":"despite-democrats-fearmongering-on-firearms-a-majority-of-americans-own-guns-or-want-to-own-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-democrats-fearmongering-on-firearms-a-majority-of-americans-own-guns-or-want-to-own-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Americans own or desire firearms, despite Democrats&#8217; fear tactics."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdespite-democrats-fearmongering-on-firearms-a-majority-of-americans-own-guns-or-want-to-own-guns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2015756&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Majority of Americans Embrace Gun Ownership for Protection<\/h2>\n<p>A recent poll \u2062conducted by Pew\u200d Research reveals that a\u200c majority of Americans are not only happy gun owners but also prospective ones who value firearms as a means\u2062 of self-defense. Contrary to\u2064 the anti-gun rhetoric often \u2063heard from Democrats, this sentiment cuts across all demographics, with Americans enjoying their Second Amendment \u200brights\u200b either through personal gun \u2063ownership or living with\u2063 someone \u200dwho owns a gun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/08\/16\/american-gun-ownership-purchases-poll?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=editorial&#038;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nearly \u200btwo-thirds<\/a> of \u2062Americans \u200deither already live in a\u2064 household with a gun or have expressed \u200cinterest in purchasing one\u2063 in the future. This surge in gun ownership \u2062is the highest \u2062since 2011, indicating that even those who are not firearm owners yet \u200dmay soon join the ranks.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, when Pew last \u200bmeasured Americans&#8217; attitudes towards guns, only \u200b67 percent of firearm owners cited protection as their reason for owning \u200dguns. However, after years of soaring gun sales\u200b due to\u2064 rising crime rates and the \u200dsummer 2020\u2063 riots, this number has now risen to 72 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 81 percent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-democrats-fearmongering-on-firearms-a-majority-of-americans-own-guns-or-want-to-own-guns\/\" title=\"Most Americans own or desire firearms, despite Democrats' fear tactics.\">gun \u2063owners feel safer owning<\/a> a firearm, while even a majority\u200c of non-gun owners (57 percent) feel safer if someone in their household \u2064owns a \u200cgun.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, gun ownership among women has seen a significant increase in recent years, with 25 percent of females now owning a \u200cfirearm \u200bcompared \u2063to just 22 \u200cpercent in 2017.<\/p>\n<h3>Gun Ownership Trends Among Different Groups<\/h3>\n<p>Pew&#8217;s\u200b research also reveals that gun ownership remains higher among rural, Republican voters compared to\u2064 urbanites and Democrats. However, there has been a slight increase in firearm ownership among urban dwellers and\u2062 Democrats in the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 4 percent more blue voters claim\u2063 to own guns now \u200ccompared \u200bto 2017, \u200cwith a 6 percent\u200d increase in the number of Democrats having guns in their households.<\/p>\n<p>While\u2064 Pew\u200d attempted to overshadow their findings by\u200b highlighting that 61 percent of Americans believe it is too easy to obtain a gun in the U.S., the poll failed to address how\u2064 law-abiding citizens feel about left-leaning legislation that aims to restrict their Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>Despite \u200cthe fact that mass shootings increased during the 1994 ban on &#8220;assault weapons,&#8221; Democrats, led\u2063 by \u200bPresident Joe Biden, are pushing for another ban on the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-confirms-bidens-atf-nominee-whos-never-actually-owned-a-gun\/\" title=\"Senate Confirms Biden\u2019s ATF Nominee \u2013 Who\u2019s Never Actually Owned a Gun\">popular semi-automatic rifles<\/a> on \u2064the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea we still allow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-if-it-saves-one-life-why-doesnt-the-lefts-logic-apply-to-illegal-immigration\/\" title=\"\u2018What If It Saves One Life?\u2019 Why Doesn\u2019t The Left\u2019s Logic Apply To Illegal Immigration?\">semi-automatic weapons<\/a> to be purchased \u200cis sick,\u201d Biden \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/28\/we-dont-need-bidens-permission-to-own-a-semi-automatic-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> \u2063in November 2022. \u201cIt has\u2064 no socially redeeming value. Zero. None. \u2064Not a single solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, implementing such\u2063 unconstitutional\u200b gun control policies would deprive Americans of \u200dtheir ability to protect themselves as they see fit.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Jordan \u2062Boyd\u2063 is\u2063 a staff writer at The Federalist and \u200bco-producer of \u2063The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily \u200bWire, Fox News, and \u2064RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University\u200b where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Pew Research poll of 5,115 U.S. adults in June revealed that most Americans, regardless of their demographic, are content or potential gun owners who value firearms for self-defense. 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