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DGUtley
10-28-2016, 09:38 AM
http://www.gallup.com/poll/196658/support-assault-weapons-ban-record-low.aspx?g_source=Politics&g_medium=newsfeed&g_campaign=tiles

Despite calls from the media and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton for a new assault weapons ban, support has dropped to a record low. Support reached a high of 59 percent in the wake of Bill Clinton's 10-year assault weapons ban, but has now been cut almost in half. Gallup reported Thursday that a record 61 percent now oppose a ban on semi-automatic rifles.

Support for a handgun ban is even lower, at just 23 percent. "The decline in support for an assault weapons ban mirrors the trend for those saying there should be a law banning the possession of handguns, except by the police or other authorized people. Currently, 23 percent of Americans favor such a ban, down from 26 percent in 2011 and 36 percent in 2004," said Gallup.

exploited
10-28-2016, 09:41 AM
That is a surprisingly bad poll to use when talking about the AWB. The AWB does not outlaw semi-automatic weapons. It outlawed having one or more specific attachments.

What is shocking is that so many people think semi-automatic weapons should be banned.

DGUtley
10-28-2016, 09:44 AM
That is a surprisingly bad poll to use when talking about the AWB. The AWB does not outlaw semi-automatic weapons. It outlawed having one or more specific attachments. What is shocking is that so many people think semi-automatic weapons should be banned.

According to the poll question, they specifically asked about AW's.

What is more shocking is the idiots that think an AW is 'automatic' or a 'machine gun' etc.

Croft
10-28-2016, 09:56 AM
The media love their "assault weapons". Is it supposed to be something you use to storm the beaches of Iwo Jima or something?
I guess it's just the media/anti gun name for an AR15, the most popular rifle in the country. If it's an assault weapon (again what does that even mean beyond being "scary" sounding) then so is every hand gun since it has the same rate of fire as them.
Corporate rule hates Americans being armed while most Americans want to keep that right. No surprise there.

resister
10-28-2016, 10:17 AM
Assault is a behavior not an object.Its not that supriseing that people want guns,what with a government that refuses to enforce our borders and wants to import terrorist by the thousands.When seconds count the police are only minutes away

Cletus
10-29-2016, 09:42 AM
What is really funny is that every month for the last 17 consecutive months, new gun sales have broken records in this country. I am seeing a huge number of first time buyers and in talking to them, I am hearing that a lot of them are buying now because they are afraid they may not be able to do so a year from now.

The anti-gun nuts in this country have been the best salesmen the firearms industry could possibly ever want.

Ethereal
10-29-2016, 09:48 AM
This is one of the few bright spots in America, is the increased respect for the second amendment and gun culture in general.

But that will not stop gun-grabbing Democrat authoritarians from coming after them. Nobody was demanding that the US government force them to buy health insurance, yet they did it anyway.

It's easy to do things that are unpopular when the entire corporate media establishment is your propaganda wing. They can spin everything they do as "safety" or "health" and the average American will sheepishly defer even if they are inwardly resentful.

Eventually, it will get to a point where conflict becomes almost inevitable.

exploited
10-29-2016, 10:18 AM
This is one of the few bright spots in America, is the increased respect for the second amendment and gun culture in general.

But that will not stop gun-grabbing Democrat authoritarians from coming after them. Nobody was demanding that the US government force them to buy health insurance, yet they did it anyway.

It's easy to do things that are unpopular when the entire corporate media establishment is your propaganda wing. They can spin everything they do as "safety" or "health" and the average American will sheepishly defer even if they are inwardly resentful.

Eventually, it will get to a point where conflict becomes almost inevitable.

More meaningless tripe. Four paragraphs of simplifications, platitudes, generalizations and fallacies. Amusing.

Ethereal
10-29-2016, 10:20 AM
More meaningless tripe. Four paragraphs of simplifications, platitudes, generalizations and fallacies. Amusing.

If you think it's meaningless tripe, then it must be pure gold.

Thanks for the encouragement.

donttread
10-29-2016, 11:43 AM
http://www.gallup.com/poll/196658/support-assault-weapons-ban-record-low.aspx?g_source=Politics&g_medium=newsfeed&g_campaign=tiles

Despite calls from the media and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton for a new assault weapons ban, support has dropped to a record low. Support reached a high of 59 percent in the wake of Bill Clinton's 10-year assault weapons ban, but has now been cut almost in half. Gallup reported Thursday that a record 61 percent now oppose a ban on semi-automatic rifles.

Support for a handgun ban is even lower, at just 23 percent. "The decline in support for an assault weapons ban mirrors the trend for those saying there should be a law banning the possession of handguns, except by the police or other authorized people. Currently, 23 percent of Americans favor such a ban, down from 26 percent in 2011 and 36 percent in 2004," said Gallup.

What we have to get the people to understand is that unless enough of them favor a ban to repeal a Constitutional Ammendment, their opinion really doesn't matter. Then again if we hadn't let the feds infiltrate education they would already know that by the time they were 16 or so.