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Poll: more support for gun rights than for gun control
Posted by David Hardy · 10 December 2014 07:48 PM
It's the latest Pew survey. They started asking the question in 1993, when "gun control is more important" led by 57-34%. Its lead peaked in 1999, at 66-34%. Today "protecting gun rights is more important" leads, 52-46%. The big change started in 2007, and from 2010 onward the two were in a dead heat.
"Compared with last January, support for gun rights increased by 6 points among Republicans and Democrats, 7 points among independents, 8 points among whites and 10 points among African Americans."
After going through the numbers and reading the other interpretations of the MSM, I have to wonder, where did they get these people who gave these results?
Yes, I know I live in a backwater where the real US population lives and I'm not exposed to diverse perspectives (Chicagoland) but we're only just at the tipping point?
That's not what we see in our (very busy) women's intro to handguns classes.
Even just last night, we stood in front of a class full of ladies, mostly past age 55, and heard: "I want a gun for protection in the home" over and over, just like we do so many nights a month.
Yes, it's a self-selecting group but the sheer numbers of them coming out of the woodwork is amazing me.
I never could have imagined, three or four decades ago, having a roomful of women declaring they wanted a gun, for any reason.
But it happened.