Posted on 06/24/2017 8:54:27 AM PDT by richardb72
A brand new PEW Research Center survey last week shows that gun ownership by households is up to 42 percent — an increase of 5 percentage points in the past four years.
Yet, few mainstream media outlets announced the increase.
In fact, the media goes out of its way to find polls claiming that Americans are turning away from guns. In my book, "War on Guns" the impression, the impression given by the media is that gun owners are a small, fringe group.
Maybe they are hoping that this will have an impact on policy. As General Social Survey director Tom Smith told me, a large drop in gun ownership would “make it easier for politicians to do the right thing on guns.”
Just last year the Washington Post and Time magazine trumpeted a CBS News poll with this headline: “American gun ownership drops to lowest in nearly 40 years” and “The Weird Reason Why Gun Ownership in America Is at Its Lowest Point Since the 1970s.”
In 2015, an Associated Press headline announced: “Gun ownership in U.S. drops to record low.”
Recent headlines in the New York Times and CNN declared: “Share of Homes With Guns Shows 4-Decade Decline” and “Fewer US gun owners own more guns.”
The Washington Post falsely assured readers, “The downward trend in gun ownership remains consistent across the national polls.”
Bizarrely, if the Washington Post and CNN had relied on their own polls, their headlines would claim that gun ownership has remained constant over the years.
But neither organization has run such headlines. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Why the heck would anyone volunteer the information that they owned guns?
1. You now are who they will come after when they want to take them away.
2. Why would you tell a crook you have a gun? They might come and take it when you’re not home.
3. Why would you tell the truth to the media? They tell you lies all the time. Lie through your fncking teeth!!
Yep. Common problem. Even for desert dwellers, smile.
Ah yes, the same media pushing Russia/Trump collusion without evidence. They aren’t dumb or incompetent, they are liars and manipulators of facts.
Someone in the Pew group actually wrote that it was “unpatriotic” to refuse to answer pollster’s questions or to reply dishonestly.
The KGB and Stasi research groups would agree.
Anyway, I hope this Pew Study inspires liberal candidates in 2018 to “do the right thing” and run on a strong platform of confiscatory gun control.
Works every time it’s been tried.
;^)
Yes, and they never learn do they. Slick Willie did for a while, but the rest of the lemming did not.
“They aren’t dumb or incompetent, they are liars and manipulators of facts.”
And, of course, manufacturers of fake “facts.”
“Download the NICS background checks”
Those are just numbers, right? Purchasers are not identified, Shirley.
Right
I wonder how they get people to admit to owning a gun. A sizable percentage of Conservatives wont admit it in fear of government taking it away. A sizable percentage of liberal criminals wont admit it because they know they are illegal in their area.
“Nine consecutive years of year over year record gun sales....and the percentage of gun owning households is at its lowest point in 40 years?
That certainly sounds reasonable, now doesn’t it?”
Yes. It IS reasonable when you understand that I, alone, purchase 92 million guns each day.
Well, myself and my investment partner Terry McAuliffe.
Don’t call me Shirley.
Also that spin lie works against the leftists’ aims. If the goal is to get the legislatures to ban guns (but control groups and the media are posting lying statistics about lowering rates of gun ownership), a politician is naturally going to conclude, “why take a anti gun position now when doing so may risk my neck in my district, especially since polls are showing the problem is going away anyway?”
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