The Right has 98% of all the guns and ammo. While the Left have been trying to disarm everyone telling them to hide under a desk and be quiet, the Right has been taking shooting lessons and buying reloaders. If it comes to civil war, the Left doesn't stand a chance.
Dems and independents own more firearms than Repubs...now we can scramble to say just who and what the independents identify with..but 98% is just horseshit. When it come to political ideology..Moderates and Libs own more guns than Conservatives....
The demographics and politics of gun-owning households
From your own source:
The demographics and politics of gun-owning households
Gun ownership in America by ideological self-identification
Conservative 41%
Moderate 36%
Liberal 23%
More moderates identify as Conservative leaning than liberal leaning, which kind of shoots down your claim, but you specifically ignored that and lumped all liberals and all moderates together. Why is that? To make a rhetorical point of some sort? That is all it is.
The differences are more sharp along party lines:
Republican 49%
Independent 37%
Democrat 22%
If demographics hold up for Republican leaning Independents (like me) vrs Democrat leaning Independents, Then 74% of gun owners are Republican or Republican leaning vrs puissant numbers of Democrats.
Now lets look at this a little more deeply regarding the types of guns owned, etc.
Americans’ views on guns and gun ownership: 8 key findings
Here are some key takeaways from
the report, which is based on a new nationally representative survey of 3,930 U.S. adults (including 1,269 gun owners) conducted using the Center’s
American Trends Panel.
1Three-in-ten American adults say they own a gun. Gun ownership cuts across demographic groups but is more concentrated among some. White adults are more likely than blacks or Hispanics to own guns, and white men are particularly likely to be gun owners: 48% of white men say they currently own a gun, compared with 24% each of white women and nonwhite men and 16% of nonwhite women. Americans with less education also are more likely to be gun owners, a gap that is widest among whites.
There is a vast urban-rural divide in gun ownership rates. Among adults who live in rural areas, 46% say they own a gun, versus 28% of adults who live in the suburbs and just 19% in urban areas. In addition, gun ownership is strongly linked to party affiliation: While 44% of Republicans and independents who lean to the Republican Party say they own a gun, only 20% of Democrats and Democratic leaners say the same.
2 Protection tops the list of reasons for owning a gun. While many gun owners say they have more than one reason for owning a firearm, 67% cite protection as a major reason. About four-in-ten gun owners (38%) say hunting is a major reason, and 30% cite sport shooting. Smaller shares cite a gun collection or their job as major reasons.
Majorities of gun owners who live in cities, suburbs and rural areas say protection is a major reason they own firearms. But owners who live in rural areas are significantly more likely to cite hunting as a major reason for owning a gun. While men and women gun owners are about equally likely to say protection is a major reason (65% and 71%, respectively), men are more likely than women to say hunting and sport shooting are central to why they own a gun.
Two-thirds (66%) of gun owners say they own more than one firearm; roughly three-in-ten (29%) say they personally have five or more guns. Among those who own just one gun, handguns are by far the most popular: 62% say they own a handgun, compared with 22% who say they own a rifle and 16% who say they own a shotgun.
So it would look like most urban gun owners own on gun and it is a handgun, vrs hunters who live in rural or semi-rural suburban areas. Guess which is more useful in field operations, like a siege of a city, hand guns or rifles?
Now which party has contiguous areas that surround urban areas? Which ones control the natural resources, pipelines and food?
Liberals would be crushed in a Civil War unless they had the Federalis on their side.
Then it would be a Michael Collins style Civil War till the GOP could take the federal government over from the inside.