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jimmy the one

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7. A year & a half dated
Mon Dec 7, 2015, 11:27 AM
Dec 2015

mtn man: millennials — defined as Americans aged 18 to 32
49% of millennials say it's more important to protect gun rights...


That pew report (via npr) was from march 2014, & is over a year old, & a new 2015 pew poll has superceded the 2014 poll, with a 9 pt swing (since pew's last one) in favor of support for controlling gun ownership. It's now 50% control gun ownership, 47% gun rights.
So it's still at parity & within moe, but so what? In light of the recent mass shootings, you think younger set millenials will not be swayed to the gun control side?

July 14-20, 2015. N=2,002 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 2.5.
"What do you think is more important -- to protect the right of Americans to own guns, or to control gun ownership?"
Protectright to own guns Control ownership Unsure/Refused
7/14-20/15 47 50 3
12/3-7/14 52 46 3
1/23 - 2/9/14 49 48 3
5/1-5/13 48 50 2
http://www.pollingreport.com/guns.htm

Also the npr report simply reports the 49% figure mtn man touts, & the pew report it links to does not provide the 49% quote either, it just says: However, on some other social issues—including abortion and gun control—the views of Millennials are not much different from those of older adults
I'd like to see the poll question in context, & the divisions of the sample.

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