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Posted on 12/12/2023 7:19:53 AM PST by george76
The proportion of registered Democrats who have a firearm in their home has jumped significantly over the past few years.. rising crime in urban areas could be behind the increase.
In November 2023 the survey found 41 percent of Democrats said they live in a household with a gun, up from 33 percent in a similar survey .. in August 2019. Notably, 33 percent of Democrats also said they lived with a gun in a similar NBC survey conducted in March 2004, indicating the sharp rise has been concentrated over the past four years.
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The data also showed a rise in Republicans having a gun at home... In November 2023, 66 percent of registered Republicans said they live with a firearm, against 64 percent in August 2019 and 57 percent in March 2004. Overall 52 percent of registered voters said their household has a gun in the latest poll, up from 46 percent in 2019.
Speaking to Newsweek Professor Kleck, who teaches criminology and criminal justice at Florida State University, said the overall American figure is broadly in line with previous figures and suggested the increase amongst Democrats could be down to a crime surge in major cities.
He said: "The percent of American adults reporting a gun in their household was 53% in a January 1994 CBS/NY Times poll, 52% in a March 1989 CBS/NY Times poll, and a statistically indistinguishable 51% in Harris polls back in 1968 and 1971.
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Democrats have stopped using the word 'xenophobic' too... Stopped calling citizens 'racist' for calling out blue city crime.
Crime and illegals are hitting their families, homes and communities. Want to win elections? Put tapes of Biden and Hillary calling citizens 'racist' for being concerned about crime... and xenophobic for caring about hundreds of thousands of illegals crossing the border.
Just because a Registered Democrat has a gun in the house doesn’t mean they have either THE NECESSARY SKILL or THE NECESSARY WILL to use it effectively.
They always have, they just don’t want their opponents to have them.
Ding, ding, ding we have a winner!
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For once, Newsweek is on to something.
Democrats live in areas where **surprise, surprise** Dem policies have caused massive increases in crime. Fear of crime is edging out their previous fear (and hatred) of keeping a firearm. This is what's driving increased gun ownership among Dems.
I do.
The more dangerous the Liberal policies make our country the more the absolute right to self defense becomes obvious.
And even if the Libs don’t believe that the constitution enshrines that right they are perfectly willing to take advantage of the current legality of caring.
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