{"id":22065,"date":"2014-12-11T10:53:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T15:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22065"},"modified":"2014-12-11T10:54:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T15:54:36","slug":"pew-more-now-support-gun-rights-than-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22065\/pew-more-now-support-gun-rights-than-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Pew:  More Now Support Gun Rights than Gun Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people-press.org\/2014\/12\/10\/growing-public-support-for-gun-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\">good news from Pew Research<\/a> to interrupt the current sense that the world in which we live is collapsing into a smoldering heap:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the first time in more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, there is more support for gun rights than gun control.\u00a0 Currently, 52% say it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns, while 46% say it is more important to control gun ownership.\u00a0 Support for gun rights has edged up from earlier this year, and marks a substantial shift in attitudes since shortly after the Newtown school shootings, which occurred two years ago this Sunday.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, a healthy majority believes that firearms protect law-abiding citizens more than they create a safety risk:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Dec. 3-7 among 1,507 adults, also finds a shift in attitudes about whether gun ownership in this country does more to protect people or put people&#8217;s safety at risk.\u00a0 Nearly six-in-ten Americans (57%) say gun ownership does more to protect people from becoming victims of crime, while 38% say it does more to endanger personal safety.\u00a0 In the days after Newtown, 48% said guns do more to protect people and 37% said they placed people at risk.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just more confirmation that the American public demonstrates greater wisdom than our self-appointed shamans in the mainstream media and political classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some good news from Pew Research to interrupt the current sense that the world in which we live is collapsing into a smoldering heap: For the first time in more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, there is more support for gun rights than gun control.\u00a0 Currently, 52% say it is more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2320,347,991,220],"class_list":["post-22065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-gun-control","tag-pew","tag-poll","tag-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22067,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22065\/revisions\/22067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}