Survey: Millennials favor semi-automatic ban and UBC

And a Fox News poll says that Millenials are still fairly pro-gun - http://redalertpolitics.com/2016/06/30/poll-millennials-pro-gun-think/#lip6EItF8y3e5oSR.99.

GenForward, who conducted the poll, appears to be a liberal, "progressive" organization. What would you expect?

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We are reminded by Jeff Cooper when he wrote his column in the '70s, '80s, ''90s and then up until his passing in 2006 that [very recent generations, including "millenials"] are the first generations of youth not routinely trained in the use of weapons. ...in history. They do not understand the necessity for defense.

Poll conducted in city with people barely old enough to buy a handgun.

What % of people 75+ would favor cutting social security?
What % of people of welfare would support cutting welfare?

Conduct that survey using just members of the NRA and see how it turns out.

There is overwhelming support for universal background checks. If statewide referendums were held today universal background checks would pass in most states.

This poll was held in October, 2015.

Gallup also asked respondents if they would support a law that would require universal background checks for any gun purchases nationwide. 86 percent responded that they would support this measure.

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http://www.opposingviews.com/i/poli...ncealed-carry-guns-and-background-checks-will

I am included in the age group of the so called "millenials" but don't think for a second that I'm a hipster liberal who hates guns, I fought for this country overseas and will gladly fight again, Victory or Death!

yokel said:

The two attitudes are contradictory, eh?

That’s why ultimately a majority of millennials, 53 to 25 percent, want the U.S. Congress to pass stricter gun control laws, even though most of them believe more guns make people safer and a plurality want a firearm themselves.

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Rather wide spread, no?

(and 25% to 50% is not a majority...)

lysanderxiii said:

(and 25% to 50% is not a majority...)

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Well, 53% is a slim majority. I read that as saying 53% favor, while 25% oppose, leaving 22% undecided/unwilling to answer.

It all depends on how you ask the question. If you ask if there should be some way to keep crazy people or felons from getting firearms most people would answer yes, hey guess what, you favor gun control.

yokel said:

The two attitudes are contradictory, eh?

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I think more short sighted than contradictory. I believe the thinking goes something like: Strict gun controls won't effect ME because I am "good guy".

We've had a rash of mail thefts. One of my neighbors wants the "Postal Police" to perform a sting operation in our area. She did not understand when I mentioned we all have a responsibility to look out for each other. She actually thinks that "the government" will take care of her.
She also believes that guns are evil...

Whether that survey is accurate or not, I think its still a duty of responsible gun owners to introduce as many people as possible to our constitutionally protected sports.

Most millennials have been brainwashed by nightly news to hear "semi-auto" and recall news video images of machineguns blazing at firing ranges; even Fox News used that kind of footage discussing the build-up to the Clinton Assault Weapon Ban in the 1990s.

A valid sample needs to be national, randomly selected, and over a threshold of minimum600, preferrably 1,000 to 2,000 or so.

The surveyor's "chat" is important. "I represent such'n'such. We are conducting a poll on so'n'so. May I have x minutes of your time." Then the introduction of the issue (which for some respondents may be the first info they had on issue so'n'so which may never have been on their radar). The actual questions asked are also important, not the spin by the group conducting the survey.

Abstract of Chapter 11, Wright & Rossi Under the Gun, 1983:

In Chapter 11, we review the evidence from two recent national surveys on "Public Opinion and Gun Control," that is. we consider what the public wants and does not want by way of stricter firearms regulations. Both surveys were conducted in 1978: one was sponsored by the National Rifle Association, and the other by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Handgun Violence. Together, the surveys are virtually encyclopedic in their coverage of public thinking on gun control issues. Although the reports in which the survey results are presented differ, at times sharply, in their emphasis and the conclusions advanced from the data, the empirical findings are notably consistent wherever direct comparison is possible.

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Another survey showed that support for more gun control is higher the less the respondent knows about existing laws, and lower the more the respondent does know about current gun law.

Isn't this the poll conducted by college students in urban Chicago which only asked inner city residents about gun control - said residents having no legal recourse to ownership and living in close proximity to gang warfare?

Right, that survey. No, they aren't "millenials" and I would suggest to the OP to look further into it. I believe this is already old news and refuted to a large degree.

It all depends on how you ask the question.

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Exactly. Goes for proposed legislation, too. Here in CO, they got a referendum shot down that would have had people on the hook for murder if they assaulted a woman and killed her unborn child. But the opposition framed the referendum as an anti abortion thing and killed it. It had nothing to do with pro-choice/pro-life, but the sound bites were effective.

Screw the "millennials." When I was 22 years old, I didn't understand the Constitution, either. Then I served my country and went to war.

Old Dog said:

Screw the "millennials." When I was 22 years old, I didn't understand the Constitution, either. Then I served my country and went to war.

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Exactly, plus they don't vote and think that tacos are cultural appropriation.

Wait.....what?!?!

I'm in my early 30s, and I am considered a "millennial." I have been collecting firearms and shooting since my dad bought me a .22 at age 5. I don't favor any new gun control and would be happy to see the repeal of both the GCA 68 and NFA 34. I have read and more or less understand the constitution. When it comes to national politics, I do vote, and I am mostly a single issue voter. There are plenty of others like me.

Oh, and I "appropriate" tacos almost every day.

The majority of the politicians that are actively trying to take our rights away don't come from my generation. Maybe some day they will, but right now millennials hardly seem like the biggest threat to the 2nd Amendment.

Seriously this thread and the many others like it sound a lot like, "kids these days....."

Many of this generation's experiences with firearms are from sitting on a couch playing GTA or Halo.

I've had this discussion with people before. I'm part of the Millennial group and myself and my friends consider the Right to Keep and Bear Arms the most important issue in America. I'm a single issue voter where the best candidate for protecting our Rights gets my vote.

I do think it is a polarized issue though, half of us want Freedom and to shake the Big Brother cloak from our back, the other half who just finished their degree in medieval feminist dance therapy (I use that joke a lot) just want to sit in their safe spaces and enjoy their free stuff.

I feel the next generation may be even more polarized, where half of us see the problem of our generation and will raise our children to be strong, self sufficient, hard working, Freedom loving Americans, and the other half will raise their kids to be even softer and more sensitive than they are!

Many of this generation's experiences with firearms are from sitting on a couch playing GTA or Halo.

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And many of the last generation's experiences came from sitting on the couch watching COMBAT! and Gunsmoke.

FWIW, I'm 26, grew up with GTA and HALO, have been shooting guns since my first .410 and .22 at around age 8, and started collecting as soon as I was old enough to make my first purchase. I have a CHP, NRA and VCDL memberships, carry religiously and try to teach new shooters and fence-sitters at every opportunity, occasionally successfully.

I would think it prudent to try to accept potential allies from all walks of life, no matter how their interest in firearms was garnered. To do otherwise just comes off as elitist and crotchety, and I'm pretty sure we're all liberty-minded folks when the chips are down, no?