We are a very divided nation. From what I’ve seen, about 25% of Americans own guns, so it does not seem surprising that a large percentage of the others would be for more control. The real question is the constitutionality. The Constitution is what saves us from ourselves and from the tyranny of the majority.
In my area, about 80% own guns, fortunately.
“From what I’ve seen, about 25% of Americans own guns, so it does not seem surprising that a large percentage of the others would be for more control.”
The percentage of gun owners is at least 50% plus & growing.
There is a MSM meme that says 3% of gun owners own more than 50% of all guns in America, based upon a survey with a badly flawed methodology. The fatal flaw in this survey is that it’s based on telephone polling which consists of demanding, “How many guns do you own?”
If a majority of respondents either refuse to answer or reply with “none of your d@mned business!!” that may be interpreted as `yes, I own guns but I won’t tell you how many’. But many more will reply, “None; I do not own any guns” and the survey results are instantly distorted beyond reality.
The “3% own 50%” meme is also intended to make politicians believe that gun owners are an insignificant minority against whom it is politically safe to pass restrictive new gun laws.
There is also an element of class warfare among gun grabbers that says “gun owners are not our kind of people and we have nothing in common with them”.
The percentage question could be easily answered by releasing NICS stats showing how many checks have been done on first time gun owners since Obama took office in 2009.
But guess what? That would be political dynamite. In my opinion there has been an explosion of new owners of guns during the last ten years of gun grabbing fury. Those NICS numbers would show that gun ownership is growing exponentially, especially among women, in the face of liberal demands for registration and confiscation.