Although the second amendment states that people have the right to bear firearms, about a third of United States adults personally own a gun. At the same time, President Joe Biden and other policymakers earlier this year and proposed new restrictions in terms of firearms and in the access in an effort to address the gun violence ranging from murder rates rising to some major cities mass shootings. There are differences in gun ownership rates by political party affiliation, gender, geography and other factors. For instance, 44% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents that say that they do own a gun, compared to the 20% percent of Demecrats and Democrat-leaners.
Men are more likely than women to say that they own a gun. 41% of Americans say that they live in rural areas report owning a firearm, compared to about 29% of those living in the suburbs, or two-in-ten living cities.
Federal data suggests that gun sales have risen in recent years, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020, the number of monthly federal background check for gun purchases is consistently around 20% higher than the same month in 2019, according to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The largest comparative percentage point difference occurred in July 2020; when about 3.6 million background checks were completed, 44% more were conducted in July, 2019.
Personal protection tops the list of reasons why people own a firearm or more. In a Gallup survey conducted in 2019, owners were most likely to cite personal safety or protection into the reasons why they own a firearm. Roughly 6 in 10 (63%) said this is an open-ended question. Considerably, smaller shares gave other reasons incuding hunting (40%), nonspecific recreation sport (11%), that their gun was an antique or a family heirloom (6%), or that it is used for a line of work like the police or the United States Armed Forces.
Lastly, attitudes about gun violence differentiate by race, ethnicity, party and community type. About eight in ten black adults(82%)- say gun violence is a very big problem- by far the largest ethnic or racial group. By comparison, about six-in-ten Hispanic adults (58%) and 39% of White adults view gun violence this way, (Due to sample size limitations, data of Asian Americans is not available. Democrats and democratic-leaning independents are more likely than Republicans and GOP leaners to see gun violence as a major problem. (73% to 18%). And nearly two-thirds of Americans describe there community as urban (65%) say the same, compared to 47% of suburbanites and 35% of those live in rural areas.
Do you think that gun laws should be more restrictive or not?
What do you think that every state should do to limit the amount of guns a person has so that people aren't going on mass shootings in the major cities and in the United States itself?
Cited Sources:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/13/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/
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I will give you some credit for this but you never got your new one posted.