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"Americans made up 4 percent of the world's population but owned about 46 percent of the entire global stock of 857 million civilian firearms." [13] [attribution needed] U.S. civilians own 393 million guns. American civilians own more guns "than those held by civilians in the other top 25 countries combined." [14] [attribution needed]
Most Americans of the mid-20th century abhorred the concept of “preparatory armed carriage” and shuddered at the sight of a gun in public. Regulations against “going armed” were as old as ...
According to joint polls published by CNN and the SSRS Institute: 64% of Americans support stricter gun control laws, 36% oppose it. 54% of Americans believe that such laws will reduce the number of deaths and killings of citizens with firearms, and 58% believe that the government can take effective action to prevent mass shootings. 36% believe ...
21 people—some who love their AR-15s, some who would never touch a firearm—gathered to find middle ground in the gun control debate
Opinion: The authors participated in Citizen Solutions, a national civic experiment by Starts With Us that empowers Americans to work on solutions. Tennesseans have different views on guns, but ...
Gun culture refers to the attitudes, feelings, values and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used. [1] The term was first coined by Richard Hofstadter in an American Heritage article critiquing gun violence in the United States. [2] Local gun cultures are found all around the world, and attitudes toward guns vary ...
More Americans own guns for personal protection than ever before, a new survey shows.
The same poll also found that 57% of Americans think better mental health care is more likely to prevent future mass shootings than stricter gun laws, while 29% said the opposite. [ 128 ] 74% of those who incorrectly believed that the USA has universal background checks supported stricter gun laws, but 89% of those who thought that such checks ...