BACKFIRED: Media Lies About Firearms & Crime, Increases Interest In Gun Rights
By Bob Owens
The reliably left-leaning media has run headlong into the law of unintended consequences.
For most of the 1990s and the subsequent decade, a substantial majority of Americans believed it was more important to control gun ownership than to protect gun owners’ rights. But in December 2014, the balance of opinion flipped: For the first time, more Americans say that protecting gun rights is more important than controlling gun ownership, 52% to 46%.
Why has public opinion shifted about gun control? As my colleagues at Pew Research Center have documented elsewhere, some of this is related to politics, as …read more
Via:: Bearing Arms
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