One In Nine Democrats Among New Gun Buyers

There are a lot of signals for how gun control isn’t the winning issue for Democrats like they thought it would be when the campaigns first kicked off. While I was convinced it wasn’t the winner they believed back then, a lot has changed since the early parts of the campaign. Back then, people were more worried about rare events like mass shootings. Today, they’re worried about massive riots or other civil unrest that have been happening daily for months now.

Yet an interesting factoid crossed my feed recently, and that’s the result of a survey that found one in nine Democrats have purchased a firearm in recent months.

More than one in nine registered Democrats recently bought a firearm, according to a late-August Epoch Times Big Data Poll. Nearly 12 percent of Democrats bought a gun in the past three months and almost 19 percent of Republicans did so, the poll showed.

The trend was particularly strong in the 18-29 age group (over 22 percent), black people (21 percent), union members (nearly 32 percent), urbanites (over 19 percent), and those earning over $200,000 (19 percent).