A CNN report drawn from a recent survey of gun owners shows that more Americans are armed for self-defense than ever before.
CNN noted that the survey, published Thursday, centered on 2,477 “American adults who reported owning guns between May and June 2023.”
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The report cited data from Injury Prevention journal, which revealed the percentage of gun owners that cited “personal protection” as the reason for getting a gun jumped from 26 percent in 1999 to 79 percent in 2024.
Dr. David Yamane, a professor of sociology at Wake Forest University, suggested the desire to be armed for self-defense is a response to the civil unrest America witnessed during COVID years.
Yamane claimed 2020 had much of the same unrest seen in the 1960s, when gun ownership for self-defense grew…
