A new Rasmussen survey released Tuesday shows support for gun control is slipping among likely voters, and it once again reveals Democrats as the party of gun control for wanting stricter gun laws, while Republicans favor enforcing current laws.
“Ten weeks before the midterm elections is a good time for these distinctions to be revealed by a national poll,” noted Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. “You have an overwhelming majority of Democrats saying the U.S. needs stricter gun control laws, and 65 percent of Democrats saying they would vote for a congressional candidate who promises to completely ban modern semi-automatic rifles.
“The timing of this Rasmussen survey is important and not just because of the looming midterm elections,” Gottlieb added, “but also because the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in two consolidated cases challenging bans on so-called ‘assault weapons’ in the upcoming term, which begins in October. Both cases were brought by our sister organization, the Second Amendment Foundation, known as Viramontes v. Cook County in Illinois and Grant v. Higgins in Connecticut and we will be submitting an amicus brief.”
According to Rasmussen, a staggering 79 percent of Democrats want even stricter gun control laws, while only 29 percent of Republicans agree. Fifty-two percent of voters overall think stricter enforcement of existing laws would do more to reduce violent crime involving firearms—up two percentage points from last September—while only 34 percent say passing new laws would be better.
“Such surveys are important because they offer some guidance to voters about which candidates better represent their beliefs on important issues, especially the Second Amendment,” Gottlieb observed. “But it is also important that we keep in perspective the fact that constitutionally-protected fundamental rights are not now, and never should be, subject to the results of public opinion polls. Rights guaranteed by the Constitution are special, and recent Supreme Court rulings make it clear the Second Amendment is not a second-class right.”
Most libertarians believe our jails and prisons are over crowded. They believe certain crimes should not be a crime at all. They don’t believe in the concept of private property rights. They believe “making it legal” to steal up to $950 would reduce the american prison population.
The DSA, Democrat S0ci@:list of America, and the Libertarians both agree. They want to abolish prisons. And abolish the police. They both supported the police being ordered to stand down and do nothing. During the summer of lez.bi@n love riots, starting in 2020. And into 2021.
Only 52%?. What is wrong with the other 48%? Is there a malfunction of the cranuim?
” Is there a malfunction of the cranuim[sic]?”
Pun: Yes it’s cracked!
An armed society is a polite society.1 Crime is down when concealed carry is up.
There is none so blind as those who will not see.2
1. Robert Heinlen
2. John Heywood
So not only has the proverbial streets filled with blood failed to come to pass much like the 500 feet of rising sea water (pretty sure Plymouth rock is still sitting there after all these years, at least a good chunk of it) the opposite seems to have occurred.
Mayhap they’z be fullashit.