Posted on 12/10/2014 1:26:53 PM PST by jazusamo
Gun-rights supporters are now a majority among Americans, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday that marks a stunning turnaround from two years ago, when the Newtown school shooting had appeared to give gun control advocates the upper hand in the public debate.
It’s the highest approval rate in two decades, Pew said, and it’s driven by changing attitudes across nearly all demographic lines, including among black Americans who are increasingly likely to view guns as good for protection, rather than as a public safety danger.
According to Pew, 52 percent of the public says it’s more important to protect Second Amendment rights, while 46 percent say gun control takes precedence over rights. That’s a flip from after the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, when just 45 percent supported gun rights and a majority said...
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Oh yeah, for sure!
sorry.
And their encouragement of rioting by blacks causes people who have never owned a gun to buy one and get training.
Highest point in two decades would mean the previous high was 1994, the year of the Clintoon/RINO Assault Weapon Ban.
You can be sure that the dead aldults at Newtown, if they could have a do-over, would prefer to have faced Adam Lanza with a gun of their own.
OK, fact check. The Dims were the ones who pushed the AWB and paid for it with the Contract With America Republican sweep in the midterms.
Sorry.
Pewre Left Wing Bias....
That’s because the US gov’t is the most abusive of citizens’ rights it has been in a long, long, time.
Funny how that works: gov’t abuses citizens’ rights; the citizens then begin to clamor for the protection of those rights.
Many whites will not identify the violence spilling out of the hood for fear of being called racist. That doesn’t stop them from buying guns and wanting to keep them. Soon you will see the anti-gun crowd claim that owning a gun for protection is racist.
S&W, Glock, Ruger etc. should be paying them hefty commissions for the increase in sales they have fostered.
You’ve got that right, they’re both unintentionally great gun salesmen.
I wish they’d be a lot more judicious with their political endorsements. It’s OK for them to endorse nobody in a particular election.
BUMP!
Since the ‘ballot box’ no longer works for us—see recent GOPe legislation—we will need them more than ever.
I should have opened a gun store 6 years ago.
“Highest point in two decades would mean the previous high was 1994, the year of the Clintoon/RINO Assault Weapon Ban.”
And the backlash that brought about the Republican Revolution in 1994, first Republican House Majorityin 30 years.
All of us should have. :-)
Yeah!
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