The study found that while 25 percent of Catholics are likely to own guns, gun ownership likely stands at 36 percent among Protestants or other Christians. Thirty-two percent of those who attend church weekly are likely to be in possession of guns. The gun ownership rates slightly decrease among those who attend church nearly weekly or monthly, or even seldom of never at 29 percent. The analysis also found that Republican Party identification is associated with higher rates of gun ownership 38 percent versus 22 percent for Democrats. However, higher rates of Republican gun ownership likely result more from the fact that men, Southerners, and married people tend to identify as Republicans than from something about being a Republican drawing one to owning a gun, Gallup's Jeffrey M. Jones explained.
No percentages were given as to how many Christian gun owners were also bitter.
To: Alex Murphy
The difference is better explained by ethnicity than by religious affiliation. It all has to do with whether or not your ancestors got here before or after the Civil War.
2 posted on
02/04/2013 7:01:07 AM PST by
muawiyah
To: Alex Murphy
How about if you are female, Catholic, bitter and clinging? That would be me. :-)
3 posted on
02/04/2013 7:01:07 AM PST by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Alex Murphy
Who in the world would tell a polling busy-body that they own a gun? These numbers are way low.
4 posted on
02/04/2013 7:10:42 AM PST by
txrefugee
To: Alex Murphy
Gun owners in the country tend to be men, white, married and living in the South... I live in Alaska, where everyone pretty much has a gun, that is if they ever go outside city limits. A serious, walk in Wallmart and walk out with a 50 caliber pistol in your pocket kinda place. Which I mention to point out the uselessness of polls. They lump demographics to say what they want, and very rarely mean squat.
7 posted on
02/04/2013 7:23:33 AM PST by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: Alex Murphy
In this political environment, what do YOU tell polsters asking about guns?
No damn way I’m telling somebody that calls me, what my business is!
10 posted on
02/04/2013 7:32:34 AM PST by
G Larry
(Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
To: Alex Murphy
Pro immigration, anti gun Vs. pro gun, anti immigration?
11 posted on
02/04/2013 7:32:56 AM PST by
showme_the_Glory
(ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
To: Alex Murphy
Their politics and religious culture is reflected in the political parties that they vote for.
12 posted on
02/04/2013 8:20:00 AM PST by
ansel12
(Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
To: Alex Murphy
An average of 30 percent of Americans said they personally own a gun and another 14 percent said they did not personally own a gun but live in a household with someone who does, according to an analysis of Gallup surveys of some 6,000 U.S. adults from 2007 to 2012.
The numbers are higher, count on it.
Some random guy calls you on the phone and asks about your guns? Yeah, I'm going to be straight with him. (Not.)
Ping to read the article later.
14 posted on
02/04/2013 8:39:51 AM PST by
Lee N. Field
("You keep using that verse, but I do not think it means what you think it means." --I. Montoya)
To: Alex Murphy
Speaking as a white catholic republican woman transplanted to the south.
Two out of 5 . hmmm our numbers are growing.
15 posted on
02/04/2013 8:46:07 AM PST by
Donnafrflorida
(Thru HIM all things are possible.)
To: Alex Murphy
I’m a Catholic and own guns (including EEEE- VIL ASSAULT RIFLE)
Does that make me a bitter clinger....?
17 posted on
02/04/2013 9:35:58 AM PST by
njslim
(St)
To: Alex Murphy
I don't doubt that more Protestants own guns than Catholics in America, but it has very little to do with theology and a great deal to do with culture. Catholicism in America is largely an urban religion, and even rural and small town Catholicism in America is largely located outside the South.
American Catholic attitudes (including the idiotic anti-gun diatribes of the American Bishops) reflect this cultural dichotomy. The same probably goes for the attitude toward guns of Orthodox Jews in America.
20 posted on
02/04/2013 11:22:48 AM PST by
Zionist Conspirator
(Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
To: Alex Murphy
Gun owners in the country tend to be men, white, married and living in the South, shows a Gallup study published Friday. They got two out of four right.
The study found that while 25 percent of Catholics
I'm one of them.
23 posted on
02/04/2013 3:50:59 PM PST by
Darren McCarty
(If most people were more than keyboard warriors, we might have won the election)
To: theKid51
You just have to give me your Kimber.
32 posted on
02/04/2013 5:51:19 PM PST by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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