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Are you a religious person who is afraid of Satan? A new study says you’re probably also a gun owner. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Ivory tower academics have been trying for years to understand why anyone would want to own a firearm. The answers (self-defense, 2A rights, simple enjoyment) are obvious enough, but that doesn\u2019t stop our scholarly class from conducting studies and surveys that purport to reveal the mysterious mind of the gun-owning public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest example comes from the University of Kansas, where two researchers set out to find a link between owning a firearm and being religious. Their paper, \u201cThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Gun Ownership<\/a>,\u201d argues that religious peoples\u2019 fears of\u00a0Satan, Hell, Armageddon, and demons prompts them to pursue gun ownership as a means of protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gun ownership, they say, is part of a larger \u201cethic\u201d that frames the world as a battle between \u201cgood and evil,\u201d and \u201cbelief in supernatural evil is bound up in policy attitudes that protect or expand gun rights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, as co-author Abbie Vegter told Deseret News<\/a>, acquiring a gun stems from a \u201cposture of fear\u201d and a sense of a \u201cduty to defend \u2014 a willingness to kill when necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: New Research Paper Tells Us \u2018The Meaning of Guns to Gun Owners\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The researchers interviewed 62 Kansas gun owners (66 men and 7 women) to draw their conclusions about gun owners more broadly. Most of the people they interviewed identified as nondenominational Christians, Baptists and evangelicals, though they also spoke with a few Catholics, a Buddhist, and a Wiccan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To each of the participants, they posed the question, \u201cDo you consider yourself a religious person? Do you feel that your religion or spirituality influences your gun ownership? Do you believe in evil? Satan? Hell? What can we do about the gun violence in this country?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One participant named Gloria was apparently nudged by the suggestion embedded in the researchers\u2019 question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI guess it goes back to good and evil,\u201d she is reported as saying. \u201cI would hope that I would always choose the good side, and sometimes that means that you\u2019ve got to get rid of the bad guy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Chicago Mayor to Gun Owners: \u2018Do Not Take Matters Into Your Own Hands. Call the Police\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vegter and her co-author, Margaret Kelley, argued that religious people believe they answer to a higher power than the government, which gives them the right to take a situation into their own hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe mentality is: \u2018I\u2019m answering (not to the law but) to a power that has given me that right,\u2019\u201d Vegter told Deseret News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As evidence for this, researchers point to Regan, a 39-year-old white nondenominational Christian, who said, \u201cI believe in a higher authority than government.\u201d She added that \u201cgovernment is not a savior for anybody; they\u2019re human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Religious and non-religious people alike have been flocking to their local gun stores in recent weeks<\/a>. Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest, and the presidential election, these new and veteran gun owners broke records for firearms purchases in March, June, July, and November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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