[Sooth2222]

Gallup: "More Than Six in 10 Americans Say Guns Make Homes Safer"

cBS's poll result contradicts Gallup's -- and Gallup has been polling since before cBS was in diapers. (They are also -- as is typical -- using "gun violence" as the polling metric, which includes suicides, not just homicides.)

The other issue with this is that the hypothesis is false. Homicides have been decreasing as gun ownership has been increasing, and are as low as they have been in the last 100 years.

[rktman]

That’s all well and good with pretty pictorials and all but did they conform to the ersatz polling standards board? LOL! Seems pretty easy to figure out that the with the YUGE increase in firearms sales, the per 100k numbers are still down. Guess that would be asking too much of them huh?

[MileHi]

nice graph