Swordsmyth
03-26-2018, 12:21 AM
A healthy antidote to the histrionic rantings of propagandized and beguiled students flooding the Washington Mall on Saturday was released on Thursday. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal Survey (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/TODAY/z_Creative/18164%20NBCWSJ%20March%202018%20Social%20Trends%20 Poll%20(3-22-18).pdf) found that the average American has an increasingly favorable view of the legal possession and use of firearms when it comes to self-defense. The polling results were based on questioning 1,100 adults, in contrast to the adult-manipulated adolescents (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/28567-leaked-audio-anti-gun-giffords-foundation-behind-student-led-march-for-our-lives) who participated in what amounted to a day-long temper tantrum.
The key questions asked were: “A: Gun ownership does more to increase safety by allowing law-abiding citizens to protect themselves.” Or “B: Gun ownership does more to reduce safety by giving too many people access to firearms and increasing the chances for accidental misuse.”
Not only did 58 percent — nearly six out of every ten of those polled — answer “A”, those choosing that same question seventeen years ago was just 41 percent. Those holding for “B” by contrast, was just 38 percent, down from 52 percent in 1999.
For those of us who understand the importance of gun rights, the news gets better. When those polled were asked “Do you, or does anyone in your household, own a gun of any kind?” 47 percent said “yes,” up from 39 percent in 2011.
These findings represent a massive and favorable reversal from 1999 both in firearm favorability and in actual ownership of firearms for self-defense. Guy Benson, the political editor for Townhall.com and conservative radio show host, concluded that, despite the efforts of anti-gunners as evidenced by their successful recruiting of “useful idiots” for their purposes on Saturday, “they’re losing the fundamental debate about guns.”
More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/28583-new-poll-a-healthy-antidote-to-adolescents-phony-march-for-our-lives-rantings
The key questions asked were: “A: Gun ownership does more to increase safety by allowing law-abiding citizens to protect themselves.” Or “B: Gun ownership does more to reduce safety by giving too many people access to firearms and increasing the chances for accidental misuse.”
Not only did 58 percent — nearly six out of every ten of those polled — answer “A”, those choosing that same question seventeen years ago was just 41 percent. Those holding for “B” by contrast, was just 38 percent, down from 52 percent in 1999.
For those of us who understand the importance of gun rights, the news gets better. When those polled were asked “Do you, or does anyone in your household, own a gun of any kind?” 47 percent said “yes,” up from 39 percent in 2011.
These findings represent a massive and favorable reversal from 1999 both in firearm favorability and in actual ownership of firearms for self-defense. Guy Benson, the political editor for Townhall.com and conservative radio show host, concluded that, despite the efforts of anti-gunners as evidenced by their successful recruiting of “useful idiots” for their purposes on Saturday, “they’re losing the fundamental debate about guns.”
More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/28583-new-poll-a-healthy-antidote-to-adolescents-phony-march-for-our-lives-rantings