by Doug Mataconis @ 4:40 pm on October 9, 2009.
Two new polls show that public support for gun control is lower than it’s been in years.
First, there’s a Rasmussen poll from earlier this week:
Just 39% of Americans now say the United States needs stricter gun control, as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to review the constitutionality of state and local anti-gun laws.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 50% are opposed to stricter gun control laws, and 11% are not sure.
In March, 43% favored stricter gun control laws. In previous surveys, voters have been narrowly divided on the question.
PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup finds a new low of 44% of Americans saying the laws covering firearm sales should be made more strict. That is down 5 points in the last year and 34 points from the high of 78% recorded the first time the question was asked, in 1990.
Today, Americans are as likely to say the laws governing gun sales should be kept as they are now (43%) as to say they should be made more strict. Until this year, Gallup had always found a significantly higher percentage advocating stricter laws. At the same time, 12% of Americans believe the laws should be less strict, which is low in an absolute sense but ties the highest Gallup has measured for this response.
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The poll also shows a new low in the percentage of Americans favoring a ban on handgun possession except by the police and other authorized persons, a question that dates back to 1959. Only 28% now favor such a ban. The high point in support for a handgun-possession ban was 60% in the initial measurement in 1959. Since then, less than a majority has been in favor, and support has been below 40% since December 1993.
Good news, of course, although it bears repeating that fundamental rights are not decided by majority vote.
Good numbers...even better when they are down to 0%
Nebba happen, there are too many bambi huggers out there and appologists for bad behavior, not to mention trial lawyers who hate to see prospective clients gunned down for their own stupid actions. plus the whole Chicago political machine would grind to a halt if they had to actually do something other than blame guns not a lack of economic opportunity for their cities problems.
Nebba happen, there are too many bambi huggers out there and appologists for bad behavior, not to mention trial lawyers who hate to see prospective clients gunned down for their own stupid actions. plus the whole Chicago political machine would grind to a halt if they had to actually do something other than blame guns not a lack of economic opportunity for their cities problems.
I hear ya...there will always been an element who will refuse to believe. God bless em' I guess...as long as they are the silent and forgetable single digit minority...I'm good with that.
I don't mind it being a bit of a pain to purchase fully automatic weapons, but the $30k price tag for a decent one is pretty crazy when the difference is about $10 worth of metal. Call me when the 1986 ban is lifted.
Of course, I probably feel this way because I live in a pretty liberal gun law state. Liberal in the freedom sense, not in the democrat sense. Florida has relatively reasonable laws.
I was born a gun lover. No conversion necessary. I've owned a pellet gun as long as I can remember (literally, I have no memory from a time period that I did not have at least a pellet gun). Once I turned 5, I got my first *firearm*, a Winchester .22LR. Birds, snakes, deer, coyotes, bobcats, and turkey have trembled at the sound of my name ever since.
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I was born a gun lover. No conversion necessary. I've owned a pellet gun as long as I can remember (literally, I have no memory from a time period that I did not have at least a pellet gun). Once I turned 5, I got my first *firearm*, a Winchester .22LR. Birds, snakes, deer, coyotes, bobcats, and turkey have trembled at the sound of my name ever since.
lol But you see, um... I was born not with a rifle in my hands, but something else. Haven't figured out what it was yet... A stainless spoon that looked better than it was?
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