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jimmy the one

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11. pew backtracked, & I like this other pew poll better
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 01:09 PM
Jan 2015
A recent PEW poll shows a majority of people {53% - 46%} support gun rights over gun control

It's one poll from a reputable pollster, would need corroboration for me from another reputable pollster, to evade the MOE & outlying the 95% confidence level.
Furthermore, as ally Fred Sanders posted on RKBA, Pew has backtracked on this poll (tho I have reservations on it, the wording should be fairly clear to those except for newbies, & it is up from previous pew polls with exact same wording).

... The research group whose misleading poll question was heavily touted by the media to suggest "growing public support for gun rights" has acknowledged that the question was flawed... the Pew Research Center released the results of a survey that asked respondents whether it is more important to "control gun ownership" or to "protect the right of Americans to own guns." The poll showed increased support for the gun rights answer and a drop in support for regulating guns. The results were reported by numerous media outlets, especially by the conservative press.
But academics from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research criticized the poll question, saying that the query forces respondents to choose between two options that are not mutually exclusive and pointing out that polls consistently show broad public backing for specific gun regulations...
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/12/19/pew-admits-flaw-in-poll-being-used-to-attack-st/201960

furtherfurthermore, if gunnuts are gonna tout this 'progun' pew survey, shouldn't they give this pew survey on declining gun ownership credibility too? which is corroborated by GSS:

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