All very predictable. All very pathetic. And far left out of the mainstream, despite their fevered wishes to the contrary.
Posted on 04/13/2012 10:43:54 AM PDT by marktwain
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans support the right to use deadly force to protect themselves - even in public places - and have a favorable view of the National Rifle Association, the main gun-lobby group, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed.
However, there was also strong support from respondents for background checks as well as limiting the sale of automatic weapons and keeping guns out of churches, stores and workplaces.
The online survey showed that 68 percent, or two out of three respondents, had a favorable opinion of the NRA, which starts its annual convention in St. Louis, Missouri, on Friday.
Eighty-two percent of Republicans saw the gun lobbying group in a positive light as well as 55 percent of Democrats, findings that run counter to the perception of Democrats as anti-NRA.
Most of the 1,922 people surveyed nationwide from April Monday through Thursday said they supported laws that allow Americans to use deadly force to protect themselves from danger in their own home or in a public place.
"Americans do hold to this idea that people should be allowed to defend themselves and using deadly force is fine, in those circumstances," said pollster Chris Jackson. "In the theoretical ... there's a certain tolerance of vigilantism."
The poll was conducted amid a nationwide debate over gun rights and race after the Florida shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood crime watch volunteer who is white and Hispanic.
The poll results were welcomed by the NRA, which is one of the most powerful lobby groups in the country and regularly clashes with anti-gun groups and often with Democrats as it seeks to protect and expand gun rights across the United States.
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All very predictable. All very pathetic. And far left out of the mainstream, despite their fevered wishes to the contrary.
Today's "jounralists" are seriously some of the dumbest people on earth. This simply indicates that many democrat VOTERS are not necessarily anti-NRA. But it says nothing about democrat POLITICIANS, who are most decidedly anti-NRA/2nd Amendment.
Also love this part:
"a neighborhood crime watch volunteer who is white and Hispanic"
Funny how the presstitutes never refer to Obama as "white and black"...
Last time that I checked, rats are over sampled and independents were under sampled. The number of independents nationally are over 35 percent. Massachusetts had just over 50 percent when Scott Brown won.
Yeah, that jumped out at me. Vigilantism is a lynch mob. Who is exhibiting a lynch mob mentality here?
“....“assault weapon...”
Isn’t the term itself redundant?
If an object can be used as a weapon aren’t we saying that it can be used to assualt someone????
The term is a prejoritive bit of liberal Lunacy!
Free George Zimmerman!
“Charles Bronson did not become a major star on his good looks and acting talent after all.”
Bronson surfaces in San Francisco, the morgue starts filling up with rapists and other assorted lowlifes, and Dirty Harry is assigned to bring him in. THAT would have been a movie!!;)
There are roughly 2.3-2.6 million police officers in the county.
There were 5 million private gun sales just last month.
Every time a police officer cashes a two week pay check, a private citizen buys a gun.
Gun control was a plank of the Democrat party, but Obama cut that plank in half.
Self-defense is the exact opposite of vigilantism.
The poll was conducted amid a nationwide debate over gun rights and race after the Florida shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood crime watch volunteer who is white and Hispanic.
So all mixed-race citizens will now be described as their parent's racial heritage? Is Pres. Obama described as white and black? What if Zimmerman's mom was white and Hispanic would Zimmerman then be a white and a white/Hispanic?
Is this liberal American apartheid? Is this King's Dream?
Yep!
Obummer picked another loser on this.
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