In case you missed it, more and more Americans are choosing to exercise their Second Amendment rights, much to the abhorrence of the gun control elitists who prefer you be unarmed, helpless victims in waiting. We The People continue to recognize they are solely responsible for their own safety and need to have the very best tools at their disposal to be safe.
Firearm purchases in the last few years have set records month after month. Estimates place October 2023 at approximately 1.33 million firearm sales, an increase of 8.3% over October 2022. With this, the total number of privately owned firearms is now estimated at 500 million, up from 393 million in 2018, and nearly doubling since 1996. The current US population is approximately 340 million.
A recent poll (see image) from decidedly left leaning NBC news found 52% of Americans say they or someone in their household owns a firearm. This is up from 2019 (46%) and 2013 (42%). While the percentage of firearm owning families does skew higher for republicans (66%), independent (45%) and democrat (41%) family numbers are still significantly higher.
I can tell you from my own experience running a small, members only range/sporting club, political affiliation means absolutely nothing when it comes to firearm ownership. Wanting to protect yourself and your family is the deciding factor.
Does this sound like Americans are embracing the gun control propaganda that firearm ownership is bad? No, in fact it is quite the opposite.
Personal protection is the reason Americans site most for owning a firearm (60%) followed by hunting (36%) and recreation/sport (13%)*. Following the Hamas attack and shooting in Maine, sales of concealed carry firearms began to spike, along with tactical shotguns and AR-15 platform rifles. Interest and attendance at conceal carry and other firearm classes has also increased.
There’s a big difference between feeling safer and being safer. For years the anti-gun crowd has tried to convince you that taking away your firearms or severely limiting your ability to buy or use them, will make you “feel” safer. Of course, this is nothing but a bold-faced lie. Their ever-increasing strict gun control laws target ONLY the law-abiding citizenry and have never done anything to keep the criminals from acquiring and using firearms against you. Now add in the so-called “criminal justice reforms” such as no bail, not prosecuting violent criminals with crimes and the mass release of offenders already serving time, and it’s easy to see why gun control laws targeting the law-abiding only make you less safe.
Remember, gun control does absolutely nothing to increase public safety and the answer to fix that shortcoming is always to implement more gun control.
But then the argument is the police are always there to protect you, another lie. In case after case where people have sued the police for not doing enough to protect them, all have ruled the police have zero legal responsibility to protect you. This isn’t to say most law enforcement officers don’t want to, but there is absolutely no way they can be there 24/7. Add to this the so-called “criminal justice reforms” and the defund the police movement approach coveted by many left leaning cities, and you have departments which can’t even respond to emergency calls within hours.
Being safer is having the knowledge and capability to protect yourself and your family, in your home or out in public, with the best tools available for the job. But it goes beyond that. Being safer means taking the responsibility of owning, carrying and using firearms seriously. It not only means the right equipment it means training in the use of your firearms as well as situational awareness, de-escalation techniques and non-lethal self-defense tools, because not every situation is a deadly force one. It means knowing the law and knowing what your personal, moral, and ethical limits are. It means having an emergency plan for your home and when you are in public. It means constantly assessing what is going on around you and how you are going to mitigate those risks.
But I’m going to take being safer one step further. It means doing everything you can to ensure a safer environment for the next generation of your family. It means stopping asinine, do-nothing gun control laws that have never made the public safer in their tracks. It means voting out your political representatives at the local, county, state, and federal level when it becomes clear they will not follow their oath of office to support and defend the Constitution, ALL the Constitution. It means finding and electing new representation who will or, maybe standing up yourself.
Feeling safe means nothing if you aren’t actually safe. Reject the gun control lies and propaganda and decide what is right for you and your family.
Bob
*The percentage adds up to more than 100% due to multiple responses. 2013 Gallop poll.
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Feeling Safer vs. Being Safer
