{"id":112228,"date":"2025-09-18T12:18:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=112228"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:18:40","slug":"112228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=112228","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Americans Prefer Communities With Guns<\/a>
\nGun bans aren\u2019t gaining traction.<\/p>\n

With so many laws on the books regulating gun ownership and enforcing myriad gun control measures, it\u2019s more than a bit surprising that Americans prefer law-abiding citizens be allowed to have firearms in their neighborhoods. This includes those who identify as Democrats. A new survey conducted by\u00a0Napolitan News Service<\/a> reveals 53% of voters \u201cprefer to live in a community where people are allowed to own guns, while 38% say they would prefer to live where guns are outlawed.\u201d This includes 76% of those who self-identify as Republican and 63% of Democrats.<\/p>\n

By an almost 2-1 margin, men say they want to live in an area where their friends and neighbors are allowed to own guns. Women, however, appear to have mixed feelings, with 44% saying they prefer to have firearms outlawed. Forty-three percent of women want to live in a location where guns are allowed.<\/p>\n

When asked about gun violence and so-called \u201cmass shootings,\u201d 56% of those polled would rather have the laws already on the books enforced over passing new legislation. Concerning matters of race, it\u2019s clear that blacks and Hispanics are more concerned about \u201cmass shootings.\u201d Only 3% of whites said it was \u201cvery likely\u201d that a close family member might be killed in a random shooting, but 11% of blacks and 9% of Hispanics felt more personally threatened.<\/p>\n

Sending Thoughts and Prayers<\/h2>\n

After the recent killing of innocent schoolchildren in Minnesota, controversy erupted over the frequently used phrase \u201csending thoughts and prayers\u201d to the families of those tragically killed. This poll reveals that only 26% of voters were bothered by this phraseology; 71% said those comments were not offensive.<\/p>\n

Perhaps less shocking is that 77% of elites, that is, people with a postgraduate education who make more than $150,000 annually and live in highly populated urban areas, \u201cfavor banning private ownership of guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twenty-two states currently have constitutional carry laws. These gun-friendly states follow the Second Amendment more closely by permitting citizens to have the legal right to both open and concealed carry without having to get a license. These locations tend to be more rural, while urban areas \u2013 where much of the gun violence occurs \u2013 are more likely to restrict gun ownership.<\/p>\n

The most\u00a0gun-friendly<\/a>\u00a0states in the United States include Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, and Arizona, with Idaho, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri coming in the second tier.<\/p>\n

Guns in the Hands of Law-Abiding Citizens<\/h2>\n

Recently, it was revealed that\u00a0FBI statistics<\/a>\u00a0\u201cmassively undercounted defensive gun use for years,\u201d according to\u00a0Liberty Nation News<\/em><\/strong>. Author Graham Noble zeroed in on a report from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) that showed \u201cmassive errors\u201d in FBI data during Joe Biden\u2019s administration. \u201cIf your agenda is to turn public opinion against\u00a0gun ownership<\/a>\u00a0and spread the fear of gun violence, the last thing you want is people knowing guns can be, and often are, used to deter or prevent crime,\u201d Noble astutely noted.<\/p>\n

Conveniently leaving out the many times guns were used to stop crime in order to advance a political agenda is diabolical. The CPRC counted 561 active shootings in which 202 armed civilian interventions were reported. But the FBI recorded only 374 \u201cactive\u201d shootings in which 14 armed civilians intervened. A spread that wide cannot be attributed to a simple error.<\/p>\n

The fact is that more people surveyed feel safer in communities where law-abiding citizens have their firearms at the ready. And it shows that, instinctively, Americans know that guns in the hands of a good guy are the best defense during an active crime involving handguns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Americans Prefer Communities With Guns Gun bans aren\u2019t gaining traction. With so many laws on the books regulating gun ownership and enforcing myriad gun control measures, it\u2019s more than a bit surprising that Americans prefer law-abiding citizens be allowed to have firearms in their neighborhoods. This includes those who identify as Democrats. A new survey … Continue reading “”<\/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":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112228","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=112228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112229,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112228\/revisions\/112229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}