49% of millennials say it's more important to protect gun rights...

[virginia mountainman]

From NPR

Of all the age groups, millennials are the most supportive of same-sex marriage, the legalization of marijuana, and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants by a wide margin. But their views on gun control and abortion are no more liberal than previous generations that Pew studied. Forty-nine percent of millennials say it's more important to protect gun rights than control gun ownership, a figure that is roughly at par with the attitudes of older generations.

Today, I have repeatedly read, how the "younger generation" was so anti gun that they, would be the political force behind strict gun control in the future...

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2014/03/10/287314912/4-reasons-the-pew-millennials-report-should-worry-democrats-too

*chuckles.... More wishful thinking from the authoritarians.

[Eleanors38]

1. But aren't the old white guys supposed to die off and carry their Gunz with 'em?

That's what the Political Theory of Mass Extinction teaches us.

[branford]

2. Those damn "young white (and other) guys" grow up and become "old white guys."

Maybe gun controllers need to lobby for a maximum voting age. It would probably do better than gun control in Congress.

[Eleanors38]

5. It's a disease, I tell you!

[Puha Ekapi]

3. Securing gun rights...

...is a LIBERAL position. The millennials are getting it

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

4. Some of my favorite quotes on Freedom

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
- Abraham Lincoln


"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."
- Bob Dylan


"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
- Rosa Parks


"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
- Winston Churchill but more to the point:
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."


"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."
- Robert Green Ingersoll



But most of all: "Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth." - George Washington

[linuxman]

6. But, but...the backlash!!!!!

The pedulum!

Tick tock!

Why isn't it happening!?!?

Fucking hilarious. We're always being told that as soon as those mean old white men die, guns are going away for good, all to usher in a new and glorious gun-free utopia.

This 28 year old white guy and his 27 year old wife own guns. Most of our peers from college either owned guns or enjoyed shooting. I can probably count on one hand the number of anti gun friends I have on Facebook who are my peers. Looks like the cultural change happened after all!

Keep fighting the good fight! Be sure not to alienate your grandkids!

[jimmy the one]

7. A year & a half dated

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.