Despite the conclusion the we expect from the likes of CNN, the article is clear that gun ownership has increased for personal protection.
More Americans own guns for personal protection than ever before, a new survey shows.
Gun sales surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, as did gun-related deaths. In 2021, 48,830 people died from gun-related injuries in the US, the highest number on record. Roughly 7.5 million American adults became new gun owners during the pandemic, and most of them had previously lived in a home without a gun, according to data from the 2021 National Firearms Survey.
In the new survey, which was published Thursday in the journal Injury Prevention, researchers queried a nationally representative sample of nearly 2,500 American adults who reported owning guns between May and June 2023.
By Brenda Goodman