Posted on 10/23/2015 7:03:27 AM PDT by rktman
Gun control activists have demonized the organization, anti-gun rights groups have held protests against them, President Obama has accused them of wielding too much political power and Hillary Clinton has compared them to terrorists. Yet, the National Rifle Association still has the support of the American majority.
Yet in a Gallup poll from Oct. 7-11, a solid majority of Americans (58%) say they have an overall favorable impression of the NRA. This includes the highest recording of "very favorable" opinions (26%) since Gallup began asking this question in 1989. In December 2012, soon after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, 54% of Americans had a favorable impression of the NRA. The highest percentage in Gallup's 26-year trend was in 2005, when 60% of Americans viewed the organization favorably.
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I can explain this. Seen this seeming contradiction all my life.
Talk about Gun Control in vague terms and people think” well yeah, there should be something on the books to keep guns out of the hands of the crazy and the criminal”
Democrats then start taking about specifics gun control legislation and people see what they actually mean by “gun Control” that they are going to take guns from the law abiding and say “this is utterly nuts”.
Drag a $1,000 bill in the front door of almost any pollster and they will come up with numbers that prove your cause is the greatest thing since nylon tires.
The dirty little secret is that the owner of the few hundred million guns in the USA aren’t all Republicans. The gun buyers who created the largest number of gun sales in the last several years didn’t buy their guns just to lose them.
Talk about Gun Control in vague terms and people think” well yeah, there should be something on the books to keep guns out of the hands of the crazy and the criminal”
Democrats then start taking about specifics gun control legislation and people see what they actually mean by “gun Control” that they are going to take guns from the law abiding and say “this is utterly nuts”.”
I see this also. Everybody wants guns out of the hands of criminals. So, a pollster asks that question and then politicians say, “see, the majority agrees with us.”
Then those same politicians propose legislation ‘that the majority wants” and then their shocked at the opposition to them
Well, they wouldn’t actually lose them. The govt buy backs would pay fair market value. LOL! Rigggghhhhhttttt!
I don’t see how 58% can be considered to be a ‘solid majority’, especially with something as fundamental as our Constitutionally protected right to defend ourselves and our liberty.
NRA and Harry Ried
I think that not only will the NRA benefit from the democrats attack on the second amendment but Christianity will benefit from the democrats attack on the first amendment and on life.
Any enemy of Shrillary is a friend of mine...
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