Posted on 03/06/2010 5:23:30 AM PST by marktwain
A new Rasmussen Reports survey released Friday showed that most Americans do not believe that city governments have the right to prevent citizens from owning handguns.
According to the survey, 69% of Americans do not believe cities can prevent citizens from owning handguns. Only 25% believe that cities do have such a right.
The survey comes as the Supreme Court is wrestling with a major case questioning whether Chicago's handgun ban violates the Second Amendment. The high number stems from the fact that the survey found that 70% of Americans believe that the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of an average citizen to own a gun.
In terms of gun control, the numbers were more mixed. The survey found that 42% of Americans favor stricter gun control laws, while 49% said that stricter laws are not needed.
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Most citizens now know that these bans only apply to law abiding citizens.
No. Most Americans are under-educated and believe what they are told to believe.
It gives me no pleasure to say this, either.
It gives me no pleasure to say this, either.”
It says a lot that a majority of Americans are bucking the propaganda that has been fed to them since childhood. Certainly, the public mostly only knows what it has been told, but it has a larger variety of sources now, and some lies are just a little to big to be easily swallowed.
I know I sound cynical. Let me give just one, recent example. I was talking to a 20-something female yesterday who didn’t realize the Vatican “was real”. I’m serious. This airhead didn’t realize that the VATICAN, for Pete’s sake, was “real”.
Now, what does this say about our so-called “education system”?
I worry about this country. I really do.
Absolutely right. Franklin's dictum to never argue with someone who buys ink by the barrel no longer holds true now that anyone can buy electrons by the barrel and have what he writes read instantly around the world.
Another example: My son, senior in high school, had another senior girl ask in class "since there is a North American and a South American, is there a East and West America" ?
Also, one didn't know what the yellow yoke was in a egg. She though it was made by the egg companies and put in the shell
I kid you not
Sadly.....I believe ya.
The article makes two divergent statements. One one hand it says..
“...most Americans do not believe that city governments have the right to prevent citizens from owning handguns.”
On the other, it says...
“...69% of Americans do not believe cities can prevent citizens from owning handguns.”
The difference I see is between “have the RIGHT to prevent”, and “CAN prevent”. Do they have the right? Not as long as we have our Constitution, and people who believe it means what is says. But CAN they prevent citizens from owning handguns? Yes, if the people become sheep and simply go where they are led and do what they are told.
I’m praying that a majority on the SCOTUS will take a stand, and defend personal freedoms and the Constitution.
Most people understand the concept of self preservation, the others are either stupid or just want to take that power away.
“I worry about this country. I really do.”
I agree. How do you get to be twenty and still be so ignorant?
Scary.
What part of SHALL NOT INFRINGE does the government not understand. NO ANTI-GUN LAW is constitutional. When they passed the first ones the USSC should have over turned it then.
They should have asked the 25% if cities can prevent free speech, bring back cruel and unusual punishment (in some cases not a bad idea), force you to provide free room and board for soldiers, allow police to search and seize your property anytime without a warrant, suspend speedy jury trials, etc.
That being said, if Brazil, where handgun laws are already onerous, couldn't get their citizens to ban handguns, I had a feeling that out populace would feel the same.
It shows us exactly how government schools want us to be educated.
A couple of weeks ago I was talking with my young coworker about natural rights and what there source is. Then he mentioned he'd really ought to read the constitution someday, so I gave him my little pocket book of the founding documents.
He read it through and asked me in a kind of incredulous tone, "Why don't they teach this in school?"
I told him that they only teach you what they want you to know.
Now, this young guy is very bright and a graduate of a major state university, and a he knows his stuff about his profession. That he had never been handed even the constitution or the declaration of independence in sixteen plus years of schooling had me angry but I suppose not surprised.
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