Dr. John Lott's latest op-ed in The Hill newspaper starts this way: A brand new PEW Research Center survey last week shows that gun ownership by households is up to 42 percent — an increase of 5 percentage points in the past four years. dYet, few mainstream media...
Survey on gun ownership
Views on guns might be changing in the UK
A new poll from Sky News finds that there is massive support for arming police with guns: The vast majority of Britons support routinely arming police officers in the UK, a Sky Data poll reveals. Some 72% of the public say police officers should be routinely armed,...
Remember those claims that 80 to 90% of Americans wanted expanded background checks?: Well, no so much support for specific bills
UPDATE January 27, 2014: In a new national ad, former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords again implies that since 90% of Americans support background checks that means that they will support the legislation that she is pushing. "What is Congress afraid of? Nine out of 10...
Problems with the new Harvard-Northeastern Gun Survey
The new Harvard-Northeastern survey is very disappointing. There are two points to this survey. That the percentage of the population owning guns is falling and that a very small percent of the population is buying a huge number of guns. The new book The War on...
New Fox News piece: “Gun ownership is up in America. So why isn’t the media telling you about it?”
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Two weeks ago, the PEW Research Center released a survey showing that gun ownership by households is up to 44% — a 7-percentage point increase in the past two years. Another 5% of households won’t reveal...
New Gallup Poll: By almost 2-to-1 Americans think arming more people with concealed carry guns will help prevent terrorism
The rest of the Gallup Poll results are available here. There are other poll numbers there that show support for other gun control laws. Links are here regarding the questions on an assault weapon ban and the No-fly list.
New CNN Poll Shows that few Americans believe that Obama’s Executive Actions will make a difference, but they still support it
According to CNN, only 41% of Americans think that Obama's executive regulations will reduce the number of gun-related deaths, but 67% still support it, with 43% saying that they strongly support the move. This raises the concern that Republicans harping only on...
More Americans view letting more people carrying concealed handguns as a better solution to terrorism than stricter gun control
There has been a sharp rise in concern over terrorism, with few Americans believing that the government can stop lone-wolf attacks (22-77 percent) and not many more can stop a large scale attack (43-56 percent). A new Gallup poll shows that terrorism has become the...
Most Americans Oppose Re-instituting a National Assault Weapon Ban
New surveys by ABC News/Washington Post and CBS News/New York Times show that the drop in support for a nationwide ban in so-called "assault weapons" mirrors the general decline in support for gun control that has been observed in the last couple of decades...
Gun Control is the Strongest Election Issue for Republicans over Democrats and that is the one topic that they have been getting even stronger on
The new PEW Research Center Poll shows that gun control is the strongest issue that Republicans have over Democrats, and that gap has been growing. And while Democrats have been getting stronger against Republicans on abortion, foreign policy, taxes and terrorism,...
Gallup: By a 56 to 41 Percent Majority, Americans Believe that More People Carrying Concealed Handguns make US Safer
For almost all categories of Americans, there is significant support for the notion that allowing people to carry permitted concealed handguns makes Americans safer. Only Democrats and those with a post-graduate education do not believe this, but that doesn't mean...
UPDATED: Trend of people feeling that guns make them safer continues: “Americans Prefer Living in Neighborhoods With Guns”
Last November and December, we posted discussions of recent Gallup, Washington Post-ABC News, and PEW surveys showing that people viewed gun ownership made them feel safer. Now a new Rasmussen survey shows that Americans feel safer when others in their neighborhood...