{"id":38190,"date":"2013-10-29T13:35:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T17:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38190"},"modified":"2013-10-29T13:35:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T17:35:24","slug":"gallup-what-are-some-of-the-reasons-why-you-own-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38190","title":{"rendered":"Gallup: What are some of the reasons why you own a gun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the question that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/165605\/personal-safety-top-reason-americans-own-guns-today.aspx?utm_source=tagrss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=syndication\">Gallup<\/a> asked a sampling of 309 Americans who own guns.Their top answer, overwhelmingly, was &#8220;personal protection&#8221; beating out &#8220;hunting&#8221; and &#8220;recreation&#8221; combined.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Personal protection is the top reason Americans own a gun, as was true in 2000 and 2005. This, rather than views on the Second Amendment, may explain why moving toward greater gun control, as Obama and many Democrats have sought to do, is so difficult. Those who own firearms for protection may feel that their own personal safety is a vital need on which they do not wish to compromise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, unless the Obama Administration finds a way to disarm the criminals first, they won&#8217;t find anyone willing to give up their &#8220;last chance&#8221;. You can see the results of the poll at the link above along with the methodology. <\/p>\n<p>Since my hunting days are far behind me, personal protection is my main concern &#8211; and I bought another one last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the question that Gallup asked a sampling of 309 Americans who own guns.Their top answer, &hellip; <a title=\"Gallup: What are some of the reasons why you own a gun?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38190\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gallup: What are some of the reasons why you own a gun?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}