Pew Poll: Urban Officers favor People’s Right to Arms

ammoland ^ | 18 January, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)-Pew Research has released a poll taken in the middle of 2016. Note that the Orlando night club massacre and the massive media hype calling for a ban on “assault weapons” occurred one third of the way through the survey period for police.  The shooting of five police officers in Dallas, with a rifle, occurred half way through the survey period.

The public survey was conducted two months after the Orlando Pulse shooting, at the height of the establishment media demonization of “assault weapons”, and one month after the shooting of five officers in Dallas.

The poll is more correctly a poll of urban police officers than of all police officers.  Rural and small town police officers were excluded from the poll. Those officers make up 37% of the officers in police and sheriff’s departments in the country. Even the urban officers strongly favored the right to arms. From pewsocialtrends.org:

Police officers are considerably more likely than the general public to say it is more important to protect the rights of Americans to own guns than it is to control gun ownership (74% of officers vs. 53% of the public).

[marktwain]

The poll only sampled the 63% of police officers in large, urban departments.

Of Urban officers, 74% thought it was more important to protect the right to arms than to restrict firearm ownership.

[rarestia]

Hollywood is a bigger problem than the police in this fight. Wife and I watch the new Fox series “Lethal Weapon,” and last week they kept referring to mini-14s as “assault weapons.” I yelled at the TV every time they said it.

[TBP]

No, the gun grabbers won’t accept that.

[YogicCowboy]

The problem is that the scum rises to the top:

It is always the leftists who most lust after power over others; they become the captains, and the captains control the rank and file cops.

Exhibit A: San Jose Convention Center this past year.

[marktwain]

Police Chiefs are political animals. In Urban centers, they answer to the Mayor or City Council.

In Urban centers, these people are almost always anti-Second Amendment.

[KeyLargo]

Philadelphia police officer creates portraits of officers killed in the line of duty

Updated:Jan 16 2017

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (WTXF) - A police officer who sketches the images of suspects found a way to use his talents in another way.

Faced with the alarming number of line-of-duty deaths, officer Jonny Castro told Fox 29’s Bill Anderson that he hoped to find a glimmer of light and pay tribute to his fallen friends….For Goodness Sake.

“There’s an ongoing debate about police relationships’ with communities and how we all interact- but one thing that tends to unite all of us, is when an officer is killed in the line of duty,” said Officer Castro.
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After starting in art school, Castro served in the Military before he joined the Philadelphia Police Department.

While on patrol, a job in the graphic arts department opened up. Officer Castro said it fit many of his interests, but also inspired him to honor his fellow fallen officers.

Officer Castro spends about eight hours on a portrait.

“It’s something the family has to remember them by. Not just husbands and wives but maybe brothers and sisters, sons, daughters. They can each have a copy and hang it in their own place,” he said.

While committed to his service to grieving loved ones, it

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