NPR Piece on Gun Sales - Public Sentiment Shifting Our Way?

[toga]

There isn't much in this piece that most of us don't already know, but I did find one bit interesting:

That may be because the public has taken a conservative turn when it comes to gun control, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.

"A year ago, we had a solid majority, 58 percent, saying it was more important to control gun ownership than to protect the right to own guns," says Carroll Doherty, associate director for editorial projects with the Pew Center. "And now opinion is almost evenly divided. It's a pretty striking shift in a very short period of time — only a year."

A bump like that may be a statistical fluke, or it could represent an excellent job of communities like NES of educating non-gun owners (i.e., "take a moonbat to the range day). Either way, seems like a "good job so far" and a "there's still lots of work to be done" are both in order.

Here is a link to the NPR writeup:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105713194&ft=1&f=1001

And here's a link to the Pew poll referenced:
http://people-press.org/report/513/public-takes-conservative-turn-on-gun-control-abortion

 

[gene]

Looks like blacks and Less than HS are losing small ground. Probably because most of the people they know with guns are not controlled at all.

 

[terraformer]

Looks like blacks and Less than HS are losing small ground. Probably because most of the people they know with guns are not controlled at all.

In the east we are screwed. It is actually going the wrong direction as people move out.