For the first time in more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, there is more support for gun rights than gun control. Currently, 52% say it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns, while 46% say it is more important to control gun ownership.Support for gun rights has edged up from earlier this year, and marks a substantial shift in attitudes since shortly after the Newtown school shootings, which occurred two years ago this Sunday.The balance of opinion favored gun control in the immediate aftermath of the Newtown tragedy in December 2012, and again a month later. Since January 2013, support for gun rights has increased seven percentage points – from 45% to 52% — while the share prioritizing gun control has fallen five points (from 51% to 46%).The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Dec. 3-7 among 1,507 adults, also finds a shift in attitudes about whether gun ownership in this country does more to protect people or put people’s safety at risk. Nearly six-in-ten Americans (57%) say gun ownership does more to protect people from becoming victims of crime, while 38% say it does more to endanger personal safety. In the days after Newtown, 48% said guns do more to protect people and 37% said they placed people at risk.Over the past two years, blacks’ views on this measure have changed dramatically. Currently, 54% of blacks say gun ownership does more to protect people than endanger personal safety, nearly double the percentage saying this in December 2012 (29%). By contrast, whites’ views have shown less change: 62% now view guns as doing more to protect people, up from 54% in December.
Do people not consider background checks and registration "gun control"?
I hope this does not lead to the reversal of the current and great trend of tightening gun control.
Quote from: KletzenbrotEssen on December 11, 2014, 11:32:41 AMStudies have been conducted that showed the assault weapons ban didn't have any impact on crime and crime rates.Hence why you shouldn't stop at assault weapons.
Studies have been conducted that showed the assault weapons ban didn't have any impact on crime and crime rates.
http://www.people-press.org/2014/12/10/growing-public-support-for-gun-rights/For the first time in more than two decades of Pew Research Center
Quote from: KletzenbrotEssen on December 11, 2014, 11:35:46 AMQuote from: Flee on December 11, 2014, 11:33:45 AMQuote from: KletzenbrotEssen on December 11, 2014, 11:32:41 AMStudies have been conducted that showed the assault weapons ban didn't have any impact on crime and crime rates.Hence why you shouldn't stop at assault weapons.Assault weapons are not even real; they are made up concepts to incite fear mongering and discrimination amongst gun owners. Discrimination against this semi-automatic sporting rifle is no different than the discrimination of blacks less than a century ago. Both establish a falsified idea that both are dangerous and evil, when they are notBut muh emotions and irrational paranoid fearsCHILDREN HAVE DIED!
Quote from: Flee on December 11, 2014, 11:33:45 AMQuote from: KletzenbrotEssen on December 11, 2014, 11:32:41 AMStudies have been conducted that showed the assault weapons ban didn't have any impact on crime and crime rates.Hence why you shouldn't stop at assault weapons.Assault weapons are not even real; they are made up concepts to incite fear mongering and discrimination amongst gun owners. Discrimination against this semi-automatic sporting rifle is no different than the discrimination of blacks less than a century ago. Both establish a falsified idea that both are dangerous and evil, when they are not
Discrimination against this semi-automatic sporting rifle is no different than the discrimination of blacks less than a century ago.
Quote from: KletzenbrotEssen on December 11, 2014, 11:35:46 AMDiscrimination against this semi-automatic sporting rifle is no different than the discrimination of blacks less than a century ago.
Gun control is not only racist
Quote from: KletzenbrotEssen on December 11, 2014, 11:41:44 AMGun control is not only racist
Gun control prevents minorities from protecting themselves in areas of high crime, where they do tend to live
Agreed race isn't relevant, but his comparison to discrimination of race is still valid.
Quote from: Camnator on December 11, 2014, 11:56:28 AMAgreed race isn't relevant, but his comparison to discrimination of race is still valid.I see what he means by the discrimination being unjustified. But slavery and gun control are still qualitatively different as far as I'm concerned.
Quote from: KletzenbrotEssen on December 11, 2014, 11:35:46 AMAssault weapons are not even real; they are made up concepts to incite fear mongering and discrimination amongst gun owners.You do realize that literally every single concept ever is "made up", right? And like I said, you don't stop at just assault rifles.And seriously? Gun control is racist now? I've heard more poor arguments in favor of the abolishment of gun control than I can count, but this one has got to be one of the worst.
Assault weapons are not even real; they are made up concepts to incite fear mongering and discrimination amongst gun owners.
People like to complain that people to fly the Confederate battle flag are racists, yet the first gun control laws was based on racism so therefore I should be able to draw conclusions that new gun control laws bring back the times of 19th and 20th century racism and discrimination
The first gun laws were made to prevent freed slaves from owning guns
Quote from: KletzenbrotEssen on December 11, 2014, 12:04:11 PMThe first gun laws were made to prevent freed slaves from owning gunsThat was probably a good idea, at first. I know what I'd do if I were just released from bondage and had a gun.
Quote from: Mad Max on December 11, 2014, 11:24:59 AMDo people not consider background checks and registration "gun control"?Can I only support gun rights if I support unregulated access to any and all firearms?I guess we should regulate your speech, too. Seriously, I'd be against even regulation your ridiculous speech.
Do people not consider background checks and registration "gun control"?Can I only support gun rights if I support unregulated access to any and all firearms?
If blacks were the issue at the time, then you wouldn't have seen the formation of the KKK as a white organization, but as a black organization
For the first time in two decades
