Gun Ownership Dropping. Is This Good News For Gun Haters?

From: Right To Bear Blog:

Gun Ownership in U.S. at Lowest Levels Ever, The Reason Why Will Surprise You

It’s likely the founding fathers never saw this coming.

When America was just a loose collection of people in various colonies they could have never imagined what America would become.

Now more Americans live in cities than ever before.

And what that’s done is it’s changed how people get food.

It used to be people had a small farm and hunted to provide for themselves.

Now that’s not the case.

And because Americans rely on factory farming for food it means they’ve given up their guns.

Guns.com writes on the decline of gun onwerhsip:

A major American trend survey released this month shows that the number of American gun owners is the lower than it’s ever been.

The 2014 General Social Survey finds that 32 percent of Americans either own a gun or live with someone who does. It’s a significant decline compared to the 1970s and 80s, when about half of Americans told researchers there was a gun in their household.

According to the study, the drop is attributed to a decline of hunters since the number of American adults who hunt has been cut in half, with roughly 15.5 percent in 2014.

Firearm ownership is still higher among whites than blacks. Thirty-nine percent of white respondents said they own or live in a home with a gun compared to 18.1 percent of black respondents.

Similarly, a greater percentage of non-Hispanics, with 36 percent, said they own a gun than Hispanics, with 15.2 percent.

Female gun ownership has had little change since 1980 and there is no meaningful trend in the level of personal ownership, according to the study. In 2014, 35 percent of men said they owned a gun, and 11.7 percent for women.

The study also shows support for a law requiring a police permit before buying a gun has had little change. Roughly 72 percent favor the idea, 27 percent oppose, and 1 percent don’t know. Compared to 1972 when 70 percent favored the idea, 27 percent opposed, and 3 percent didn’t know.

The survey was administered by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, which primarily used in-person interviewing for results. The group surveyed 2,538 American adults between March 31 and Oct. 11, 2014.

The good news is even though gun ownership is at all time low, the support for owning guns is at one of the highest levels in recent years.

Despite the onset of mass shootings, Americans still support the right to own a gun, even if they don’t own one personally. A lot of this can be attributed to healthy online debate where gun advocacy groups are able to show crime data that unequivocally shows how gun ownership brings about a reduction in crime rates.

And while not every American is hunting anymore, that doesn’t mean they should give up their guns (or not want them).

Because one thing the founders did understand when they wrote the second amendment is guns aren’t just for hunting.