Do working-class Americans cling to guns and religion?

Question

I currently live in rural PA

Answer 1

Yes and no. I believe in god but I don't go to church and I'm not a religious nut. I do own many guns and I know how to use them all. As for "clinging" to guns that is something I think of the homeboys doing.  You see I'm not here to injure or kill someone for looking at me hard or calling me names. However I would defend my family, myself, my property, or others around me in an instant.

People in this day and age what to preach peace and equality. BS .  peace has been gone for a long time. you want peace and justice. do it yourself. good day

Answer 2

Some do and that's because we've got ethics and we're smart enough to know that guns can save a life.

Answer 3

Not necessarily.  I work yet do not own a gun.  I am also an atheist.  I cling to neither guns or religion.  Anyone advocating such an inaccurate statement is guilty of stereotyping.

Answer 4

YES.

Answer 5

I think most people who live pay check to pay check drag themselves to work and cling only to their pay check and the health benefits that hopefully come with it.

But noone in politics lives pay check to pay check - Senators make over $1,000,000 annually and have kick *** health insurance, etc.  

So - it's not really a surprise when they resort to stereotyping.

Answer 6

not neccesarily in that order.

Answer 7

I think most people feel a need to protect themselves regardless of ethnicity, race, culture, income, class, etc. Has nothing to do with religion.

Answer 8

It appears as if they do.  I'm an American living abroad and I always get asked why we allow guns and why we are so religious.  I answer that both are big reasons why the Puritans left England to settle in America:  The right to practice the religion of their choice and the right to bear arms.

Answer 9

I'm not what you would call working class but I do have a fascination with both. Maybe God will reach down from the heavens and blow away those who displease them. Might make a believer out of a few folks.

Answer 10

Obama had no right to make this statement. This  lying, hypocrite, racist man will say anything to get votes. Watch him apologize now. But his thinking has not changed. It is the working middle class that is having to pay for every d**n thing.