Any time I hear someone invoke the term "gun violence," my eyes roll and I immediately discount whatever else that person has to say on the subject.
Any time I hear someone invoke the term "gun violence," my eyes roll and I immediately discount whatever else that person has to say on the subject.
I agree. Knife violence, car violence, blunt object violence, and fist/foot violence are terms never used.
It is hard to get around the fact that gun violence plummeted for several decades while gun ownership skyrocketed during the same time period.Yup.
Hey look. We reduced "gun violence" by 25 percent.
But don't look at "all other violence" going up 500 percent.
Just keep your eye on "gun violence".
Majorities of both groups favor background checks for private sales and at gun shows, as well as limiting access to guns for people with mental illnesses and those on no-fly or terror-watch lists.
If they want to be taken seriously by gun owners, they should change their name to the Pew Pew Pew Research Center...The demographics of Pew's "American Trend Panel" need to be understood. While most of their information can be found at Results | Pew Research Center it doesn't show the necessary detail. If 2,000 of the members are white, middle aged, college-degreed, married men earning >$75,000, but they're Democrats in the West, results will be skewed; similarly, if all of the Hispanics are lower class, etc, and in the Northeast, those results are biased.
They can say their ~5,000 member panel is representative, but until they show it is (and how does that equate to the national breakdown (consistency, after all)?), I'll take their results with a grain of salt. Or two.
Sadly, research clearinghouses aren't scrutinized for their results--people point to their name and think it must be valid, because it's from Pew.
We should start of list of the liberal terms we have been stuck with. "gun violence", "assault rifle", "sniper bullet", "for the children", "mean spirited", "one percent". Don't think this is a hijack.
"ammo clip", "fully loaded", "exploding bullet", "highly trained"
"automatic", "common sense", "gun show loophole"
"ghost gun", "arsenal" (plural for firearm), "fascist", "sniper rifle", "gun safety", "high-capacity magazine", "compromise"
Not surprising when you read some of the posts here on the INGO. People like to say all the time how they support the 2nd Amendment and the RKBA, but then they put all kinds of conditions on that statement.The bigger issue in this poll is related to gun owners being in favor of "common sense" laws. It seems we are our own enemy.
Views on gun policy in the U.S. | Pew Research Center