{"id":39241,"date":"2014-01-10T10:23:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T15:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39241"},"modified":"2014-01-10T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T15:23:28","slug":"poll-households-with-firearms-spike-to-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39241","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Households with firearms spike to 39%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/article\/2541876\">Washington Examiner<\/a> reports that a Economist\/YouGov poll says that the number of households with guns rose from 34% in 2012 to 39% in 2013.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The rebound comes as many are rushing to buy guns before states put more limits on ownership. It also reveals a gun-buying trend that started last year when President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Democrats and Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, pushed for widespread gun control, new background checks and the elimination of sales of semi-automatic rifles, the most popular style of rifle sold.<\/p>\n<p>The Economist\/YouGov survey revealed a partisan split among gun owners. Some 30 percent of households with guns are Democrat and 49 percent are Republican.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that it&#8217;s a little low, because if someone calls me on the telephone and asks if I own firearms, my immediate answer would be &#8216;nope, not a one, wouldn&#8217;t have one in my house, thank you, goodbye&#8217;. You&#8217;ll notice in the article that they track gun ownership over the last 40 years and the number of people who admit gun ownership drops off when the government started cracking down with gun control legislation from 50% in the 70s to 34% in 2012. I think they&#8217;re reading their polling wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Examiner reports that a Economist\/YouGov poll says that the number of households with guns &hellip; <a title=\"Poll: Households with firearms spike to 39%\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39241\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poll: Households with firearms spike to 39%<\/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-39241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39241","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=39241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}