Posted August 26, 2019 6:00 pm by Comments

By Harold Hutchison

Second Amendment Hero
Second Amendment Hero

United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- When it comes to defending the Second Amendment, the only thing that is possibly more infuriating than anti-Second Amendment extremists are the gun owners who don’t get involved. The numbers are there to make this issue a deal-breaker for any politician. According to Pew Research, 30 percent of Americans admit they own at least one firearm. Another 11 percent say they know someone who owns at least one firearm.

This comes to about 99 million admitted gun owners, plus another roughly 36 million who say they know a gun owner. That comes to 135 million people. To put that into perspective, 136,669,276 people voted in the 2016 presidential election.

Now, according to Pew, 19 percent of gun owners say they belong to the NRA. If only those responses were backed up by the NRA’s actual membership numbers. If the NRA had almost 19 million members as opposed to almost six million, the whole political landscape regarding our rights would be very different.

But far too many gun owners are not involved. Why is that? In some ways, they haven’t given the issue much thought – they don’t see the issue as affecting their …Read the Rest

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