Posted on 04/13/2012 12:39:04 PM PDT by forbushalltheway
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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I hear liberal heads exploding all over the country.
How is self defense vigilantism?
white and hispanic?
Moreover, what exactly is wrong with vigilantism?
If there's actually a cop around, fine. If not, you do what the circumstances require.
“How is self defense vigilantism?”
This society has not seen vigilantism in decades, but if the current trends keep up, it just might.
Well, you have to consider the source, Rueters.
Those who conducted the poll are obviously uninformed. Automatic weapons are already the most controlled and restricted type of firearms legally obtainable. It can take months of paperwork, fees, background checks and waiting, to take possession of an automatic weapon.
Either Reuters didn’t know that or they figured no one else did either.
FIFY
“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.”
My mother is a Democrat. Considering what she went through to raise me and even the drama after, I would never hold that against her.
But my point here is that DEMOCRATS are anti-gun and they are anti-NRA. Why? Because my mother has nothing to do with it, she goes and votes Democrat, and then heads home and lives out her life as a loyal American primarily interested in her kids and grand kids. But the people she votes for HATE AMERICA and they HATE the NRA. They are the Democrat Party and they are the ones in power, and NO ONE should allow the media to tell us that just because my mother and people like her may not hate the NRA, that “Democrats” as a whole don’t have a problem with the NRA, as that is TOTALLY FALSE.
“as well as limiting the sale of automatic weapons...”
Nothing wrong with owning a rifle with a working full-auto switch. The federal criminal pigs got ‘em and so should we.
I’m sure that the 30 IQ nazis at roto-reuters would never send a dope to debate the matter.
This is a shocker.
I rather suspect that Americans have learned that the local police can not protect them at 3am in the early morning hours when John Q. Burglar is breaking into their homes with the intent to harm the resident citizen. If a citizen must wait for the cop on the beat to show up and protect them from said burglar they could easily end up of dead or beaten nearly to death. They quickly realize that police are only a reactionary agency and do not prevent crime and rarely ever will. They show up well after the crime has taken place and just take reports.
And should the LEO's show up in time and actually catch the perp in the act the so called justice system just releases him back onto the streets to continue his crime spree. And should he actually get convicted and receive a prison sentence he is paroled after a year or few to just pick up where he let off. Yes, citizens are fed up with the revolving doors of the so called justice system. They expect and have a right to protect their families when the police or courts can't or won't for what ever reason.
Possibly some citizens believe that if the system isn't going to do its job then it is up to them to do it in order to protect themselves and their families. At least with the perp blown away during an act of his violence upon innocent victims removes the threat once and for all. At least the perp won't be threatening them or anyone else at last. Stand Your Ground laws are helpful to citizens and should be available in all 50 states.
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