What with the way most smart people won’t even talk with pollsters,\u00a0 I’d say the numbers are higher.<\/p>\n
22% of Gun-Owning Households Have Added A Gun Since Anti-Police Protests Began<\/a><\/p>\n Over one-fifth of Americans who have a gun in their household have added one since the Black Lives Matter anti-police protests began in late May and feel safer because they\u2019ve done so.<\/p>\n Forty-three percent (43%) of American adults say they or someone in their household owns a gun, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey.(To see survey question wording,\u00a0click here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Of these Americans, 22% say they or someone in their household has purchased a gun since the violent anti-police protests began.<\/p>\n Fifty-four percent (54%) of adults who live in gun-owning households say they feel more safe with a gun in the house, although that\u2019s down from 61% in February 2018. Only seven percent (7%) feel less safe. Thirty-eight percent (38%) think the presence of the gun has no impact on their personal safety.<\/p>\n Among those who have added a gun in the last four months, however, 90% feel more safe.<\/p>\n The survey of 1,000 American Adults was conducted October 4-5, 2020 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +\/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.<\/p>\n Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Likely U.S. Voters are concerned that deadly attacks on the police will lead to a shortage of police officers and reduce public safety where they live, with 44% who are Very Concerned.<\/p>\n Men are more likely than women to have a gun in the household and to have added one since late May.<\/p>\n Those under 40 are more likely than their elders to have gotten a gun since the violent protests began.<\/p>\n White gun-owning households are less likely than black and other minority ones to have added a gun since late May. Whites are also less likely than the others to feel more safe with a gun in the house but more likely to say it has no impact on their personal safety.<\/p>\n Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Republicans have a gun in their household, compared to 39% of Democrats and 37% of adults not affiliated with either major party.<\/p>\n In surveys since 2008, support among voters for more gun control has ranged from 40% to 64%. Support surges following a mass shooting incident, then falls back.<\/p>\n Forty-two percent (42%) of voters say there have been anti-police protests in their community this summer, and 48% of these voters say those protests have turned violent.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What with the way most smart people won’t even talk with pollsters,\u00a0 I’d say the numbers are higher. 22% of Gun-Owning Households Have Added A Gun Since Anti-Police Protests Began Over one-fifth of Americans who have a gun in their household have added one since the Black Lives Matter anti-police protests began in late May … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60502","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\/60502","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=60502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60504,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60502\/revisions\/60504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}