Are Gun Ownership Arguments Now a Sign of Societal Paranoia?
by SavvyRoo on Nov 8, 2014 | Views: 97 | Score: 0
Republicans | Independents | Democrats | |
---|---|---|---|
2000 | 44 | 35 | 28 |
2004 | 54 | 42 | 31 |
2006 | 53 | 50 | 41 |
2014 | 81 | 64 | 41 |
Americans thinking that having guns in the home makes them a safer place to be ...
%
Sources:
gallup.com
Perhaps due to numerous high-profile shootings in the United States, the number of Americans that believe having a gun in the house makes it a safer place to be have shot up drastically since 2000. How much were gun ownership rights arguments really a popular idea in the past and how much are they just in the modern day framed to seem like an ancient Constitutional right embraced unconditionally by even conservative Americans since our founding?