The public remains closely divided over whether it’s more important to protect gun rights or control gun ownership, according to an April 2024 survey. Overall, 51% of U.S. adults say it’s more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns, while a similar share (48%) say controlling gun ownership is more important.
Views have shifted slightly since 2022, when we last asked this question. That year, 47% of adults prioritized protecting Americans’ rights to own guns, while 52% said controlling gun ownership was more important.
Views on this topic differ sharply by party. In the most recent survey, 83% of Republicans say protecting gun rights is more important, while 79% of Democrats prioritize controlling gun ownership.
Appears that younger voters are falling prey to the gun control lobby’s scare-mongering about “school shootings”.
They also don’t know what gender they are and think intersectional lesbian anthropology is a marketable major so there’s that.
Younger voters are less likely to value firearm ownership for three reasons:
1) They are “invincible”.
2) They are less likely to have experienced violent attacks.
3) They are less likely to have children that they have to protect.
Once our population reaches age 30, they generally realize that they are no longer “invincible”. And as they live more years, the odds keep increasing that they or a peer become victims of a violent attack which clearly demonstrates the NEED to own firearms. Finally, once our population starts having children, they realize that they no longer have the option of evading or even absorbing an attack. (It isn’t possible to evade an attack with young children under your arms. And taking a beating is not an option when that beating could leave you incapacitated and enable your attacker to harm your children–or leave your children motherless and/or fatherless.) This also demonstrates the NEED to own firearms.
That’s an unteresting lune of thouggt hiwever yiu completely.muss the most important reasins for the differences in ideology between different ages. You’re thinking logically but most people don’t. The issue is that the younger the people are the more likely they are to have been politically indoctrinated to hate their own rights.Younger folks have been programmed to think that govt is god and that there are no true rights. Pay attention to what’s going on all around us. Please excuse my typos as this page won’t let you edit beyond what’s visible.
Paul,
There is a lot of truth in your comment. Please note that my comment was anything but entirely based on logic. In fact I would argue that my argument is also referring to young people coming to their position based on emotion. Clearly, the widespread mindset of young people being “invincible” is obviously not possible and therefore emotional. Less clear, it is still an emotional position to discount the real-world risk of violent attack simply because someone has not yet experienced such an attack yet in his/her young life. Finally, it is also significantly emotional to discount the risk of violent attacks before having children. (Having children does not change the probability of an attack. Having children simply makes it more difficult to discount the probability of violent attacks and their impact–which is working on an emotional level as well.)
Back to your point, I agree that there is a ton of indoctrination and that has a huge impact on young people. Fortunately, even if the emotional aspect of life experience starts moving young people toward truth, the good news is that many young people do move toward the truth.
Nice that we have a majority, but sad that such a high percentage prefer slavery over freedom.
Pew Pew (haha) Research Methodology:
The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via *self-administered web surveys.* Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet connection. Interviews are conducted in both English and Spanish. The panel is being managed by Ipsos.
Data in this report is drawn from ATP Wave 146, conducted from April 8 to April 14, 2024. It includes *oversamples* of non-Hispanic Asian adults, non-Hispanic Black adults, Hispanic adults, and adults ages 18 to 29 in order to provide more precise estimates of the opinions and experiences of these smaller demographic subgroups. It also included an oversample of validated 2016 and 2020 “vote switchers,” who either voted for Donald Trump in 2020 but not in 2016, or who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but not for Hillary Clinton in 2016. These oversampled groups are weighted back to reflect their correct proportions in the population.
A total of 8,709 panelists responded out of 9,527 who were sampled, for a response rate of 91%. The cumulative response rate accounting for nonresponse to the recruitment surveys and attrition is 3%. The break-off rate among panelists who logged on to the survey and completed at least one item is less than 1%. The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 8,709 respondents is *plus or minus 1.5 percentage points.* …
All respondents were offered a *post-paid incentive* for their participation. Respondents could choose to receive the post-paid incentive in the form of a check or a gift code to Amazon.com or could choose to decline the incentive. Incentive amounts ranged from $5 to $20 depending on whether the respondent belongs to a part of the population that is harder or easier to reach