UPDATE PEW Survey data on protecting right to own guns/supporting more gun control. The PEW Research Center survey results are available here.
Survey on gun ownership
Do people feel safer if they own guns in the home?
Despite the constant onslaught exaggerating the risks of guns in the home (see also here), YouGov has a new survey finding that "42% of Americans would feel safer with a gun in the house, while 20% would feel less safe." And it turns out that they have good reason for...
Fox News Poll: By 2-to-1 margin Americans believe in More Guns, Less Crime
(Click on figure to make it larger.) This result is from a Fox News poll given from January 15-17, 2013, and so it was done right after the Newtown attack. Presumably the results at other times would have been even more lopsided. Still the Fox News survey is possibly...
CPRC at Fox News: “ABC News reports on guns mislead Americans”
John Lott's piece at Fox News started this way: Gun control advocates not only push new fees and taxes on guns to reduce ownership, but they also employ another tactic: scaring people into not owning guns. Last week, on January 31, ABC News saturated its news programs...
Newest Fox News piece: “1 year after Newtown, support for stricter gun control has disappeared”
A New op-ed piece by John Lott starts this way: President Obama has pushed hard for gun control this year and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent millions of dollars on ads, but the administration's promise to coordinate "a November lobbying effort and plan...
Polls consistently show that over the last couple decades more people are opposing more gun control
The most recent CNN poll shows more people ever recorded opposing more gun control (UPDATED CNN poll). From CNN, 52% of Americans oppose stricter gun control. The previous high opposition was 55% in September 2014. The average opposition since 1989 was 40%, so the...