The mainstream media is trumpeting a new Pew survey that shows the most Americans support gun rights as any time in the past twenty years. We reported much the same on October 31st, in a story titled, BAD NEWS FOR GUN CONTROL FREAKS! Americans reject surrendering their God-given rights.
The Washington Post’s version:
Gun-control advocates are seriously losing public opinion
For the first time since Pew began asking the question two decades ago, a majority of Americans now say that gun rights are more important than gun control — a striking shift in public opinion over both the last generation and just the last few years. As recently as December 2012, in the immediate aftermath of the Newtown, Conn., shooting, 51 percent of people surveyed by Pew said it was more important to control gun ownership than protect the rights of gun owners.
That consensus has since disappeared, confirming the fears of many gun-control advocates that outrage after Newtown wouldn’t last long.
What’s most striking in Pew’s new data is that views have shifted more in favor of gun rights since then among nearly every demographic group, including women, blacks, city-dwellers, parents, college graduates, millennials and independents.
The Washington Times’ version:
Support for gun rights at highest point in two decades
Support for gun rights is higher than it’s been in decades, according to the latest data from the Pew Research Center that signals a stunning turnaround in how Americans feel about the issue just two years after the Newtown school shooting.
Pew found that 52 percent of Americans say Second Amendment rights are more important than gun control — up 7 percentage points from just after the December 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left 20 schoolchildren and six faculty dead.
That’s the highest approval rating in two decades, and it’s being driven in part by changing attitudes among black Americans, who are increasingly likely to view guns as good for public safety.
Pew found 54 percent of blacks now say firearms protect people from being victims of crimes, compared to 41 percent who say they are a public safety risk. Just two years ago, only 29 percent of blacks said guns were a public safety boon.
“Over the past two years, blacks’ views on this measure have changed dramatically,” Pew researchers said.
I’ve been hard at this gun rights thing for better than 20 years.
I know a lot of folks who have been at it twice and three times that long.
It’s good to get some confirmation that we’re winning, that we’re being effective.
BUT… It can all go away so quickly. Public opinion is fickle.
Keep working your people one on one. Take them to the range, take them to a Guns Save Life meeting, teach them. If they become gun owners themselves, they’ll be that much less likely to bend with the fickle winds of public opinion.
A big AMEN on keeping your guard up, now is not the time to relax.
Some of those people you teach are gonna go and kill children, mate…
Having been born in 1927,raised in SOUTHERN Missouri, & raised with guns & had to use them for hunting for food during the great depression of 1929 through 1945, & served in the military 1944-46, & Korea, I have always realized the importance of the absolute God & CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT as a citizen to own & possess guns. Now 87 years old & still firing them, I thank G0D nightly for permitting Americans to beginning again to demand that right again! Jim McMullin.
Thank you, Mr. McMullan, for your service to our great country and for your longstanding support for our Constitutional Rights. May God Bless America again, and you too, Sir, you are a great American!
I’ll second that.
Ditto!
THANK YOU PATRIOT !!!!
GET RELIGION OT OF POLITICS, IT DOESN’T BELONG THERE, ITS A PLACE FOR REASON AND LOGIC, NOT MAGIC…
Gun owners also need to express their views openly. I know some that will never talk about second amendment issues unless the area is “clear.” Its almost like they are embarrassed to be a gun owner. Now I don’t advocate proselytizing every day in the work place. Rather, if the conversation comes up just talk facts. You will be surprised how many people hold the second amendment dear and are just afraid to talk about it. It also shows those that only listen to the liberal media that “normal” people do own guns and do believe in the bill of rights. I’ve converted one or two liberal friends with simple facts.
I also make it a point to be the “gun guy” so that the folks I know who are not into guns, or only dabble in them, know I’m their go-to guy for straight facts and good info. I’m not in their face all the time, but they always know if they need to know anything, just ask. If I don’t know the answer, I’ll find someone who does.
THE SECOND AMENDMENT WAS MADE BACK WHEN THE U.S WAS GETTING ITS FOOTHOLD, NOT NOW IN A MODERN SOCIETY, WHEN WAS AUSTRALIA’S LAST MASSACRE? 1996 AT PORT ARTHUR, I WAS THERE AND I SAW THE GUNMAN FIRSTHAND, WHAT GUNS DO FIRSTHAND. AT SANDY HOOK, LITTLE CHILDREN DIED, AND WHAT DID YOUR GOVERNMENT DO? NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. GOD DOESN’T BLESS YOU, HE DOESN’T BLESS IDIOTS.
No you weren’t.
Buzz off Troll
“WHEN WAS AUSTRALIA’S LAST MASSACRE?”
You haven’t been watching the news have you…
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-30473983
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/eight-children-found-dead-home-cairns-australia-n271426
Both incidents have happened in this week. This is what happens when your government strips you of you ability to defend yourself.
yes it’s great that the polls are going are way .But I think that these people that are carrying their assault rifles everywhere,just because they can, are going to have an accident and it will all change. I also have my carry permit, but I understand how folks, especially folks with kids can feel concerned seeing people they don’t know with a gun. All I ask is can’t we be alittle more descreet.
Those semi-auto rifles are NOT assault rifles. The definition of an assault rifle includes the presence of a selector switch that allows the firearm to fire 3 round bursts on one trigger pull or full-auto which allows the firearm to empty the magazine if the trigger is pulled and held. Such firearms are only available to police and military. That is the law since 1934. The anti-2nd Amendment crowd misuses the term to get sheeple to believe we need to be disarmed for our own good. The TRUTH is the anti-gun crowd depends on guns for their own safety. They just do not want the rest of us armed because that want to control our lives just as did Hitler and Stalin.
yes it’s great that the polls are going are way .But I think that these people that are carrying their assault rifles everywhere,just because they can, they will eventually have an accident and it will all change. I also have my carry permit, but I understand how folks, especially folks with kids can feel concerned seeing people they don’t know with a gun. All I ask is can’t we be alittle more descreet.
You mean modern sporting rifle, correct? As far as I know the only people openly carrying Assault Rifles in the United States are police and military organizations.
We need to use the correct vocabulary when we talk and write about this. Otherwise we advance the anti-gun agenda. High Capacity Magazine is another phrase we need to expunge from our vocabulary.
But, I understand your point about open carrying a rifle. OK in the woods; creepy at Walmart.
Hatred of freedom is still going strong among the pants wetting liberal dummycrats.
In an event of catastrophe, your more likely to kill another person for something they have than out of self-defense
FBI crime statistics say you are WRONG. Show me data that proves your point.
Nobody likes bed-wetting gun haters.
They actually think they will stop wetting themselves if other men are equally helpless. What a farce.
There is only one TRUE justification for having a gun that you can produce;
“fuck off, i like guns”