{"id":62408,"date":"2015-10-22T10:59:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62408"},"modified":"2015-10-22T10:59:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T14:59:45","slug":"gallup-americans-think-that-more-guns-make-us-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62408","title":{"rendered":"Gallup: Americans think that more guns make us safer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This should have the anti-gunners in the media spinning like a loom. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/186263\/majority-say-concealed-weapons-safer.aspx?g_source=Politics&#038;g_medium=newsfeed&#038;g_campaign=tiles\">Gallup reports<\/a> that in their latest poll (October 7-11) which asked Americans, with a random sample of 1,015 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, if trained armed and licensed citizens would make us safer. More than half responded that it would. Here are the demographics of the respondents;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62409\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62409\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Gallup-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gallup\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Gallup-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Gallup-183x333.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Gallup.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><\/center> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most states have some sort of permitting process allowing the carrying of concealed weapons, but the requirements and procedures to carry weapons vary significantly by state. The Gallup question did not get into detail on specific requirements other than mentioning that the person with the concealed weapon would have to pass a criminal background check and training course.<\/p>\n<p>Among key subgroups, Democrats and those with postgraduate education are least likely to believe that more concealed weapons would make the U.S. safer. Republicans and gun owners are most likely to say it would make the nation safer. Younger Americans are more likely to choose the &#8220;safer&#8221; option than those aged 30 and above.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The poll also said those same people supported stronger background checks, whatever that means, and that 3\/4 of respondents opposed banning handguns. According to the article, an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that the Second Amendment protects our right to own firearms, privately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should have the anti-gunners in the media spinning like a loom. Gallup reports that in &hellip; <a title=\"Gallup: Americans think that more guns make us safer\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62408\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gallup: Americans think that more guns make us safer<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62408","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=62408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}