Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Say ‘Self-Defense’ Main Reason to Buy Gun

By AWR Hawkins

Handguns and Revolvers
Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Say ‘Self-Defense’ Main Reason to Buy Gun
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Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- An April 13 2016 Rasmussen Reports released a poll showing that two-thirds of Americans believe “self-defense” is the main reason to buy a gun.

Only five percent tied gun purchases to criminal intentions and one percent believed guns were purchased for work-related requirements.

According to Rasmussen, Republicans and “unaffiliateds” continue to be aligned in the conviction that there is enough gun control at the point of sale. Only 28 percent of Republicans and “36 percent of those not affiliated with either major party” believe more gun control is needed at the point of sale, while 64 percent of Democrats believe more gun control is needed at point of sale.

It is interesting to note that 23 percent of Americans say “they or someone in their immediate family bought a gun during the past year.” In this category, Democrats are aligned with the rest of America. Twenty-one percent of Democrats say “they or someone in their immediate family bought a gun during the past year.”

This Rasmussen poll comes on the heels of FBI figures showing that March 2016 was the 11th consecutive month of record background checks for gun sales.

AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at [email protected]

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Carl

An Armed Society is a Polite Society.
I grew up in a very tough neighbor hood in the 50’s . We did not shoot and knife our arguments but bullies were abundant. A bully understands one thing above all else. Leave the little guy that will use any tactic to level the playing field. it’s very embarrassing for the 200# bully getting whipped by a 105# kid using a 2X4. This is my true story. We became friends several years later but he never let me forget how it hurt his ego.

Rich

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall… Read more »

3rdAFCrewChief

Only 2/3rds??? the other 1/3rd are probably Liberals who rather say they hunt. All of my Hand Guns, Shotgun, AK, etc are primary defense weapons 1st.

TEX

I buy a lot of firearms strictly for hunting too. All of my handguns are for self defense. But I do put a lot more value in self defense than hunting.