Men, Married, Southerners Most Likely to Be Gun Owners

I was going to save this for another time, but as a follow up to recent post about gun ownership and political affiliation, here is another poll that is very telling:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/160223/men-married-southerners-likely-gun-owners.aspx

"Across those six data sets, an average of 30% of Americans said they personally own a gun. Another 14% did not personally own a gun but live in a household with someone who does. The results presented here focus mainly on personal gun ownership, though the demographic patterns are similar among the larger group of Americans living in gun households."

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"In addition to gender, Southern residence, and marital status, personal gun ownership also varies significantly by age, race, and political ideology.

- Non-Hispanic whites (33%) are significantly more likely than nonwhites (22%) to own guns. Hispanics (18%) in particular show below-average gun ownership. Twenty-one percent of blacks own a gun.

- Younger Americans (20%) are much less likely to own guns than older Americans. There are only minor differences among adults 30 and older by age group (ranging between 31% and 34%).

- Gun ownership is much higher among those who are politically conservative (39%) than among those who are politically liberal (17%)."

Liberals, Progressives, and especially Democrats not only own fewer guns, but upcoming generations of Americans are more prone to be Liberal, and less prone to be attracted to the macho American gun culture they were born into.

It took the NRA several generations to poison this nation with the unfettered proliferation of guns, and the inevitable gun violence brought about by easy access to guns. It will take as long as it takes for thinking Americans to reverse that insanity, and to find solutions which are compliant with the Second Amendment while imposing reasonable restrictions, and instilling enforceable responsibilities on gun ownership.