Posted on 03/23/2013 5:52:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Proponents of gun-control legislation, emboldened by the president’s call for stricter laws and overwhelming support in public polling, have been optimistic that proposals for background checks or a crackdown on weapons trafficking could pass Congress. Gun-control advocates have cited plenty of data to make their case, including surveys that show more than 80 percent of Americans support background checks.
Even a ban on assault weapons, which has been a more polarizing issue, still wins majority support in many surveys.
But these polls may gloss over some complexities in public opinion on gun control, and explain why Democrats are having so much trouble winning congressional support for even the most modest gun regulations.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday said he would not include the assault-weapons ban in legislation the Senate will consider next month, an acknowledgement that he doesn't think that proposal could pass. Democrats fear that including the assault-weapons ban might doom the prospects for other measures such as background checks. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who authored the proposal, said she wasn't backing down and would try to tack on the assault-weapons ban as an amendment instead.
So, why aren't the polling numbers on gun control swaying more members of Congress? Many of the poll numbers don't capture the nuances of public opinion.....
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Smoke and mirrors. Universal background checks i.e. registration is what they are shooting for. Republicans talking about mental health prevention of gun ownership is a sure sign things are going bad. I don’t have problems with these checks if type of gun and serial numbers are not part of the check.
Just how do such findings square with the historic levels of gun purchasing by the American public over the last four years?
Well, of course, they don't.
The reason members of Congress are so afraid of voting for increased regulation on guns is because they look at the real world numbers, which say loud and clear, that Americans still have the blood of their forefathers running in their veins.
They could care less what the polls are, since they know best!
Treating the good and the innocent like criminals - isn’t this how the Germans treated the Jews before WW2?
Whew! Thanks, I feel much better now. I thought he was in the White House.
Looks more and more like No. 5.
None of the crap being done is legal, but these gun grabbers don't care. They are afraid that the American people have awakened to their schemes and treason. They believe the only way to implement their schemes is to disarm America. Americans are not stupid: they see what Obama has done and continues to do to the economy and they see his Santa Claus giveaways to looters from the productive will collapse on its own weight. That's why disarmament has to be done . . . to protect those in power, Democraps or RINOs.
Consider this, in just four months, the FBI Instant Checks processed 2.3 million gun sales in November 2013, 2.4 million in December 2012, 2.3 million in January 2013, and 2.3 million in February 2013. That's enough guns to completely re-equip both the Chinese PLA (2.3 million) and Indian (1.7 million) armies TWICE. There would be 1.3 million guns left over after re-equipping was done. Americans are arming for a fight and the assholes in DC and Donkey controlled state capitals know this. What more and more American are feeling is that our state and national governments have lost legitimacy and are gone rogue.
"The semi-automatic weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's
confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic
assault weapons anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to
be a machine gun can only increase that chance of public support for
restrictions on these weapons."
-- Josh Sugarman, 1988, Violence Policy Center.
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