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After the Sandy Hook shooting, the majority of people, including gun owners and non-gun owners, wanted the government to spend more money in order to improve mental health screening and treatment, to deter gun violence in America. In the United States in 2009 there were 3.0 recorded intentional homicides committed with a firearm per 100,000 ...
Gun ownership rose sharply among Republican women over the last five years, while firearm ownership became increasingly aligned with party affiliation, Gallup survey data released Thursday shows ...
Political party is a strong predictor of gun ownership ‒ and getting stronger, Gallup data shows. As recently as 2012, 38% of Republicans and 22% of Democrats owned guns, a 16% gap.
Gun ownership among Republican women has grown in recent years, a new survey found. According to Gallup’s annual measurement of gun ownership across the country, the percentage of Republican ...
In 1995, political scientist Robert Spitzer said that the modern American gun culture is founded on three factors: the proliferation of firearms since the earliest days of the nation, the connection between personal ownership of weapons and the country's revolutionary and frontier history, and the cultural mythology regarding the gun in the ...
Gun politics is defined in the United States by two primary opposing ideologies concerning the private ownership of firearms. Those who advocate for gun control support increasing
Roughly 7.5 million American adults became new gun owners during the pandemic, and most of them had previously lived in a home without a gun, according to data from the 2021 National Firearms Survey.
From 1994 to 2023, gun ownership increased 28% in America. In 2023, about 16.7 million firearms were sold in the U.S. In the first four months of 2024, nearly 5.5 million firearms were sold, averaging around 1.3 million per month. About 72% of gun owners say they own a gun primarily for protection. [3]