By the numbers: The sharp partisan divide on gun ownership
More elaborate data-mining techniques, such as logistic regression analysis, suggest that gun ownership is a more powerful predictor of whether a voter is Republican than her gender, whether or not she identifies as gay or lesbian, whether she is Hispanic, or whether she lives in the South, along with many other demographic characteristics.
And based on demographic inertia, the differences seem likely to grow over time. About 35 percent of Democratic voters aged 65 and older reported having a gun in their home, against about 25 percent of those aged 18 to 29. But gun ownership rates bore little relationship to age among Republican voters, and were constant at about 55 percent among all age groups. That might suggest that gun ownership will continue to decline among Democrats while holding steady among Republicans, further increasing the partisan gap.
Perhaps last weekend’s mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., will serve to partly reverse the partisan split in attitudes toward guns; early polls on Newtown find relatively modest differences between Democrats and Republicans on what they see as the causes of the shooting.
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Well duh…. You did not need a study on that. Thats why I always smile when I know they unarm them selves and if s%^t hits the fan… kinda like the saying that if zombies are chasing me and a few buddies… I am tripping one of them
watertown on December 18, 2012 at 4:00 PM
There’s a lot of stupid going on in the comments over there.
jr.ewing.78 on December 18, 2012 at 4:05 PM
The Dems are outgunned at 56%-31% in gun ownership, and most of theirs are in the hands of their old folks. It’s no wonder they WANT to try to take our guns away. But they certainly lack the capacity to actually DO it. Would make ‘class warfare’ kind of one-sided, don’t you think?
michaelo on December 18, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Well, it is, after all, the New York Slimes. Their readership is not the most intellectually sophisticated demographic.
UltimateBob on December 18, 2012 at 4:11 PM
I averaged all the polls and arrived at the exact same conclusion.
The Count on December 18, 2012 at 4:11 PM
But notice how the MSM is working overtime lying about guns? They can’t even get the definition of assault rifle correct. Where is that jpeg someone posted here yesterday called the media guide to weapons? It was hilarious and the truth.
Blake on December 18, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Speaking of zombies, doesn’t it seem that zombies are meant to represent the Liberal mindset? Maybe some result of Toxoplasma they got from eating cat $h*t as a kid instead of being bitten by another liberal, but otherwise the same thing. You don’t see the people fighting zombies throwing their guns away as a solution. But the zombies would probably support a politician who suggested that.
MechanicalBill on December 18, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Thank goodness that we were endowed by our Creator with the 2nd Amendment. I feel sorry for the liberals who are not actually Obama evil… I know some, and they’re are even sort of well-meaning, but too dumb to know what we’re up against as a Nation.
sauldalinsky on December 18, 2012 at 4:16 PM
No, they’ll get the federal government to collect our guns, just like they get the federal government to do everything else for them.
We won’t be faced with urban ganbangers, we’ll be faced with the 82nd airborne and the 10th mountain division.
Rebar on December 18, 2012 at 4:16 PM
I would suspect a lot of gun owners don’t admit owning them for phone polls or much else.
MechanicalBill on December 18, 2012 at 4:17 PM
The majority of the people in the US are stupid.
Schadenfreude on December 18, 2012 at 4:18 PM
Is Nate Silver carried to work nowadays on a litter carried by six shirtless men, ala Cleopatra?
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 18, 2012 at 4:18 PM
I love that the Dems have a huge gender divide suggesting that a lot of Democratic women don’t realize (or are willing to admit) they are part of a gun-owning household.
theperfecteconomist on December 18, 2012 at 4:21 PM
What guns? Nothing to see here……
ProfShadow on December 18, 2012 at 4:23 PM
The problem is, the anti-gunners won’t attempt to take away anyone’s guns themselves, they will demand that their government do it for them.
And the government has automatic weapons, tanks, fighter planes, satellites, “ships that go underwater,” etc etc. The most that your typical gun owner has is a couple of handguns and a few rifles.
So yes, it is very one sided, but not like you might think.
UltimateBob on December 18, 2012 at 4:23 PM
Sharpe partisan divide on use of guns to defend the Freedom and Life of the U.S.A. and its Constitution and the Free People within.
“Hell No We Will Not Go”
William Ayers etal
“They acted like gangascon’ , cut off limbs, put electric to private parts”
Democrat for Pres. soon to be SOS , Lt. for Life, Traitor John F. Kerry.
“No War for Oil” by
Green Peace and Earth First members as they drive to the National Parks to hike in their Off Road Jeeps ect.
You go, you go, you out there in fly over country, you farm boys, you truck drivers, you welders, you construction workers you go.
Not us to be University Prof’s who will study how to lie in CO2 world wide taxation.
spit,,, spit, spit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
APACHEWHOKNOWS on December 18, 2012 at 4:24 PM
You beat me to it.
UltimateBob on December 18, 2012 at 4:25 PM
A lot of it is a misunderstanding perpetrated by the media.
A friend of mine actually told me today that they shouldn’t sell any weapon that can be fired 30+ times in a minute. I was told her that I could fire my double action revolvers that many times in a minute with speedloaders.
Yeah, there are some nuts that want to see us in a single action, bolt action world. But mostly it’s people not understanding the term “semi-automatic” and they hear the word “assault” thrown in front of a word and they’re immediately petrified.
ButterflyDragon on December 18, 2012 at 4:28 PM
Will the government’s agents go along with it, that is the question.
Bishop on December 18, 2012 at 4:29 PM
These statistics are comforting; they suggest American Patriots are armed and Communists are unarmed.
Tripwhipper on December 18, 2012 at 4:32 PM
ps
One more Fast and Furious gun found at another kill site in Mexico.
see
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-34222_162-57559809-10391739/fast-and furious-gun-found-at-mexican-crime-scene
Mexican beauty queen Maria Susana Flores Gamcz and four others were killed.
B. Obama, Eric Holder, Ms Clinton use the ATF to run 2,000 guns into Mexico.
This one a AK-47 type WASR-10 rifle.
Who are these commie thug gun running Democrats to tell any one what to do.
Come to U.S. with Clean Hands B. Obama and then and only then will we come to justice with you.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on December 18, 2012 at 4:35 PM
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-34222_162-57559809-10391739/fast-and-furious-gun-found-at-mexican-crime-scene
APACHEWHOKNOWS on December 18, 2012 at 4:37 PM
Heh.
Whilst out canvassing for the last election, I came across a car parked out in the street with most of the bottom half of the window replete with pro-gay marriage etc. bumper stickers.
And a Glock sticker at the top of the window – in pink of course.
Chip on December 18, 2012 at 4:51 PM
The Delusion of the Left: If The NRA Went Away, We Could Have “Common Sense” Gun Control
Resist We Much on December 18, 2012 at 4:56 PM
yep
entagor on December 18, 2012 at 5:23 PM
Hypocritical leftists (I know it’s a repeat)
Schadenfreude on December 18, 2012 at 5:29 PM
Our Military Men and Women must remember their sacred trust and vows.
Bmore on December 18, 2012 at 6:07 PM
Hope so. An A-10 will make pretty short work of your Ford F-150 (even with its Toby Keith stickers).
lostmotherland on December 18, 2012 at 6:12 PM
But….A majority of Military folks who know how to use automatic weapons, tanks, fighter planes, satellites, “ships that go underwater,” etc etc. are conservative and voted for Romney. The military recruits from the south and midwest are also over represented in the military. Also veterans are more likely to own guns.
Most of the military in hypothetical right vs. left class war would side with the right. Of course no war is going to happen…just saying.
The guy flying the A-10 will probably be a conservative…who likes his guns. Thankfully most progressives hate guns and the military and would suck at war. I mean they are guys calling servicemen baby killers and such…who do you think they will defend? A Harvard professor of law or a guy with Toby Keith stickers on his truck?
William Eaton on December 18, 2012 at 7:21 PM
Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Progs: Which One Was Banned Under The Old AWB?
M2RB: The Beatles
Resist We Much on December 18, 2012 at 7:35 PM