In U.S., Continuing Record-Low Support for Stricter Gun Control - Fewer than 3 in 10 support law...

Gallup ^ | November 22, 2010 | Frank Newport

[neverdem]

Fewer than 3 in 10 support law banning handguns except for police and authorized personnel

PRINCETON, NJ -- For the second year in a row, a record-low 44% of Americans say laws governing the sale of firearms should be made more strict, while 42% say gun laws should be kept as they are now. Twelve percent say gun laws should be made less strict.

Americans' support for stricter gun control laws has gradually declined over the last two decades, from 78% when this question was first asked in 1990 to 49% in 2008, and 44% in 2009 and again this year. As support for stricter gun laws has decreased, support for keeping gun laws as they are now has increased, from 17% in 1990 to 42% now. The percentage of Americans favoring less strict gun control laws has remained relatively stable over the last 20 years, and is now at 12%.

These results are based on Gallup's annual Crime Poll, conducted Oct. 7-10 this year.

Americans are also less likely to say there should be a law banning the possession of handguns except by the police and other authorized persons. The current 29% who favor such a law is within one percentage point of the low of 28% recorded last year, down from 60% when Gallup first asked this question in 1959 -- the only time when a...

[edcoil]

They seem to make it sound like a bad thing that we want less regulation, less government and less gun control.

[Gaffer]

Big mystery, huh...go figure....people start taking a dimmer view of asswipes trying to take their gun rights away in the midst of the biggest Constitutional Rights subversion in this country's history with the TSA, capitalist business regulations, healthcare, theft of income, heinous taxes on inheritances being reinstituted et al.

These people are moving closer to the armed rebellion tipping point.

[The KG9 Kid]

Hot tip to Violence Policy Center and the Brady Campaign:

More Americans want guns now than ever before. This will be a multi-generational shift, at least.

Find something new to do with your lives, because you're wasting your time.

[Gene Eric]

The ubiquitous smell of fear.

Good job Progressives.

[Jeff Winston]

On the contrary... they're havin' a heyday!

Among the news headlines from their site:

Gun Control Supporters From Both Parties Win Senate Seats

Incumbent Democrats Supporting Gun Control Win; Those Appeasing Gun Lobby Lose

Illinois Candidates Supporting Gun Control, Including Gov. Quinn, Successful At Polls

The U.S. Senate Again Rejected a Bill to Give Exemption to NRA on Campaign Finance Reform

Congressional Forum Held on Gun Show Loophole

U.S. Supreme Court Reaffirms Gun Regulations

Whoopee!!

[2harddrive]

Now is the time for all REAL Americans to put our 2nd Amendment FIRST!!

[neverdem]

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[SunkenCiv]

That’s three for, seven against. Obviously the three are oppressed and deserve to have their views upheld in law. /sarc

Thanks neverdem.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Monorprise]

We do need to allow liberals to maintain a few “gun free” areas to help us remind our children of why you don’t disarm your population.

The fight must at some level go on or our people will forget why it is essential that we retain our rights.