{"id":101668,"date":"2024-05-03T16:25:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T21:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101668"},"modified":"2024-05-03T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T21:25:12","slug":"101668","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101668","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktrh.iheart.com\/featured\/houston-texas-news\/content\/2024-05-03-americans-bought-15-million-guns-last-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans Bought 15 Million Guns Last Year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With all the constant unrest throughout America and the ongoing movement to defund and prosecute police who do their jobs, it&#8217;s no surprise that Americans purchased over 15 million firearms last year.<\/p>\n<p>The reason seems to be clear: people across the country are realizing that they need to start becoming responsible for their own safety. A Rasmussen poll showed that some 67% of Americans thought self-defense was driving gun sales.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Harrison with Top Gun Range says, &#8220;It just doesn&#8217;t make sense to put your trust in someone else to protect you.&#8221; He says even with the police doing the best they can, they are understaffed and can&#8217;t be everywhere at once.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison says people find out they need to protect themselves at different points in their life, and it could be triggered by a negative event or a positive life development such as having children or getting married, which brings the realization on that they want to protect their family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans Bought 15 Million Guns Last Year With all the constant unrest throughout America and the ongoing movement to defund and prosecute police who do their jobs, it&#8217;s no surprise that Americans purchased over 15 million firearms last year. The reason seems to be clear: people across the country are realizing that they need to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101668\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101670,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101668\/revisions\/101670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}