How Will The American People React When The President Proposes Some Gun Safety Measures & The Repug.

[NickB79]

25. You're not reading that graph correctly

You are looking at the chart titled "Summary of Gun Owners", correct? Allow me to point out the error you've encountered. Don't feel bad; it took me a few minutes trying to figure it out as well.

First, they ask the primary resident of the household if he/she personally owns a gun. 41% of Republicans and 28% of Democrats said yes.

In the next column over, it's titled "Other household member owns gun", such as the respondent's spouse, child, or other family members living in the same household (brother, sister, parents, etc). That shows that 14% of Republicans and 13% of Democrats said yes to this question.

So, you must SUM the two columns to get a true number of gun owners, which comes out to be 55% Republican and 41% Democrat.

Granted, this could be problematic if, say, the husband is a Republican and the wife a Democrat, but it seems that Gallup didn't differentiate these points in their survey.