Pew Poll Shows Majority Favors Gun Rights

[Ben]

I think this is the first time ever that I've seen a Pew poll with favorable results on gun rights. I was surprised at the percentages as well.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/21/pew-first-gun-rights-top-gun-control-in-major-public-opinion-shift/?intcmp=latestnews

[birdman]

Given Pew's HORRIBLE bias, AND usual way of phrasing questions, this is substantial.

[Ben]

Given Pew's HORRIBLE bias, AND usual way of phrasing questions, this is substantial.

Affirmative!

[French G.]

Do I care? Rights are not subject to a majority opinion.

[Perd Hapley]

Do I care? Rights are not subject to a majority opinion.

Your rights are subject to a majority opinion in every election.

(Not your actual rights, of course, but to what extent you will be left free to exercise them.)

[Angel Eyes]

The New York Times has taken note of the same poll and is bemoaning its significance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/opinion/charles-blow-has-the-nra-won.html?_r=0

[SADShooter]

The New York Times has taken note of the same poll and is bemoaning its significance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/opinion/charles-blow-has-the-nra-won.html?_r=0

Gray Lady's panties twisted? One for the win column.

[mtnbkr]

Your rights are subject to a majority opinion in every election.

(Not your actual rights, of course, but to what extent you will be left free to exercise them.)

Even if that wasn't the case, having more folks on our side is a good thing and reduces the attempts to subvert our rights.

Chris

[DustinD]

The website report from Pew is here: www.people-press.org/2014/12/10/growing-public-support-for-gun-rights
Full report from Pew can be downloaded as a .pdf here: www.people-press.org/files/2014/12/12-10-14-Guns-release.pdf

Since Pew doesn't mind us embedding things from their site, why not...

[Angel Eyes]

Gray Lady's panties twisted? One for the win column.

Yeah . . . ain't it grand?

[just Warren]

Don't you mean the Pew Pew Pew poll?

[Blakenzy]

Do I care? Rights are not subject to a majority opinion.

It does show you how hard you are going to have to fight and how much sacrifice it might take to retain them.

[Perd Hapley]

Since Pew doesn't mind us embedding things from their site, why not...

Is that the effect of Sept. 11th?  And then what happened in 2003? The Lockheed Martin shooting?

Sandy Hook registered a pretty small blip, in the overall trend.

[AJ Dual]

I love this,  laying the blame on:

and perception of crime in this country. As the report spells out, in the 1990s, people’s perception of the prevalence of crime fell in concert with actual instances of violent crime. But since the turn of the century, things have changed: “A majority of Americans (63 percent) said in a Gallup survey last year that crime was on the rise, despite crime statistics holding near 20-year lows.”

Because, even if for the sake of argument you accept that,  it's the anti-gun Left MSM's own fault. 

[DustinD]

Gallop doesn't show the drop. www.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns

[sbl23]

Interesting times we are in fellas. 

[K Frame]

Unpossible. Everyone knows that 792% of all Americans favor complete and total bans on firearms.

[Blakenzy]

Unpossible. Everyone knows that 792% of all Americans favor complete and total bans on firearms.

Yes unimpossible

[DustinD]

This graph doesn't fit with the fewer people own more guns narrative.