According to the Pew Poll, 52 percent of Americans believe it was more important to protect gun ownership rights, while only 46 percent said the priority should be controlled access to firearms
A survey conducted last month by the Pew Research Center showed that 52 percent of Americans believe it was more important to protect gun ownership rights, while only 46 percent said the priority should be controlled access to firearms. It was the first time in 20 years that Americans favored gun rights over gun control.
57 percent of those surveyed said gun ownership helped to protect people from becoming crime victims while 38 percent believed gun ownership was more likely to endanger their lives.
According to The New York Times, Dr. Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, the Pew Poll questions were slanted to give the results they did. Webster said:
“Pew’s question presents one side emphasizing the protection of individual rights versus restricting gun ownership. The question’s implicit and incorrect assumption is that regulations of gun sales infringe on gun owners’ rights and control their ability to own guns. The reality is that the vast majority of gun laws restrict the ability of criminals and other dangerous people to get guns, and place minimal burdens on potential gun purchasers such as undergoing a background check.”
It figures that The Times would turn to academia and dig up some anti-gun professor to debunk the results of the Pew Poll.
1 comment:
Yep and the further Northeast you go the more stringent the gun laws become. New York State made hundreds of citizens criminals in one day when they passed limited magazine capacity. They even forgot to exempt law enforcement had had to go back a year later to amend the law. A friend of mine told me that some police departments mandated that officers carrying high capacity magazines could only load with eight rounds. I would rather be in Hell with a broken back than in New York State!
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