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Do-It-Yourself Defense. (Politics).(Brief Article)
Do-It-Yourself Defense Robert M. Jiobu and Timothy J. Curry, "Lack of Confidence in the Federal Government and the Ownership of Firearms," in Social Science Quarterly (March 2001), Blackwell Publishers, 350 Main Street, Malden, Massachusetts 02148
Despite government efforts to control or ban the sale of guns, there's evidence that American gun ownership is rising. American Enterprise Institute fellow John Lott calculates that the number of American adults owning guns grew from 27 percent in 1988 to 37 percent by 1996.
There are many reasons why Americans are buying more weapons, but one of them, according to Ohio State sociologists Jiobu and Curry, is that a rising number of Americans don't trust the government to protect them or their families.
Jiobu and Curry examined two decades of data from the General Social Survey (GSS), a long-running public-opinion survey of social trends. They compared questions about trust in government with questions about gun ...
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