{"id":12937,"date":"2011-11-02T07:52:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T14:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/?p=12937"},"modified":"2013-02-04T18:32:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T01:32:12","slug":"gun-ownership-soars-to-18-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/gun-ownership-soars-to-18-year-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Ownership Soars To 18 Year High: 47% Of Americans Admit To Owning A Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans may be fleeing from stocks in droves, but they sure aren&#8217;t shy about rotating the resulting meager liquidation proceeds into weaponry. <!--more-->According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/150353\/Self-Reported-Gun-Ownership-Highest-1993.aspx\" class=\"broken_link\">Gallup<\/a>, &#8220;Forty-seven percent of American adults currently report that they have a gun in their home or elsewhere on their property<strong>. This is up from 41% a year ago and is the highest Gallup has recorded since 1993, albeit marginally above the 44% and 45% highs seen during that period<\/strong>.&#8221; Considering the social situation &#8220;out there&#8221;, and the fact that the world is one badly phrased or translated headline away from a complete HFT-facilitated market collapse, this is hardly all that suprising.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sas-origin.onstreammedia.com\/origin\/gallupinc\/GallupSpaces\/Production\/Cms\/POLL\/sgcossbzcei5hhmpeq0ryq.gif\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sas-origin.onstreammedia.com\/origin\/gallupinc\/GallupSpaces\/Production\/Cms\/POLL\/sgcossbzcei5hhmpeq0ryq.gif\" alt=\"U.S. Gun Households, 1991-2011\" width=\"499\" height=\"296\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new result comes from Gallup&#8217;s Oct. 6-9 Crime poll, which also finds public support for personal gun rights at a high-water mark. Given this, the latest increase in self-reported gun ownership could reflect a change in Americans&#8217; comfort with publicly stating that they have a gun as much as it reflects a real uptick in gun ownership.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not surprisingly, republicans pack more heat than democrats. Perhaps it is best not to piss too many off&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republicans (including independents who lean Republican) are more likely than Democrats (including Democratic leaners) to say they have a gun in their household: 55% to 40%. While sizable, this partisan gap is narrower than that seen in recent years, as Democrats&#8217; self-reported gun ownership spiked to 40% this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/gun-ownership-soars-18-year-high-47-americans-admit-owning-gun\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans may be fleeing from stocks in droves, but they sure aren&#8217;t shy about rotating the resulting meager liquidation proceeds into weaponry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-self-reliance"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}