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Posted on 11/07/2011 3:40:58 PM PST by epow
According to Gallup’s annual Crime Poll, conducted earlier this month, a record-low 26 percent of Americans favor a ban on the possession of handguns in the United States. When Gallup first asked Americans this question some 50 years ago, 60 percent favored banning handguns; however, since 1975, the majority of Americans have opposed such a measure, with opposition as high as 70 percent in recent years.
This data follows the release last month of FBI statistics that show for the fourth straight year sales of firearms have increased while crime has continued to decrease.
The Gallup poll also found that for the first time opposition is greater than support for a ban on semi-automatic firearms (including modern sporting rifles) with 53 percent opposed and only 43 percent supporting a ban. In the initial asking of this question in 1996, the numbers were nearly reversed, with 57 percent supporting and 42 percent against.
Perhaps Americans are realizing that the possession of firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens does not cause crime and, if anything, it helps to reduce it.
Gun control is a failed social experiment. It is time to move on.
(Excerpt) Read more at nssfblog.com ...
Americans are coming to realize that gun control is kind of like trying to solve drunk driving by making it harder for sober people to own cars.
The quoted section of the Gallup survey is just a brief portion of the full article. Click the link on the article’s heading for a very encouraging look at the entire Gallup survey.
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I vote ban the gun grabbers!
LLS
“When Gallup first asked Americans this question some 50 years ago, 60 percent favored banning handguns...”
This number would include the so-called Greatest Generation, and their parents who voted overwhelmingly for the fascist FDR.
We have made progress and will make more.
Percentage Favoring a Ban on Handguns, by Subgroup, 1991 and 2011 Gallup Polls
Implications
Americans have shifted to a more pro-gun view on gun laws, particularly in recent years, with record-low support for a ban on handguns, an assault rifle ban, and stricter gun laws in general. This is the case even as high-profile incidents of gun violence continue in the United States, such as the January shootings at a meeting for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona.
The reasons for the shift do not appear related to reactions to the crime situation, as Gallup's Crime poll shows no major shifts in the trends in Americans' perceptions of crime, fear of crime, or reports of being victimized by crime in recent years. Nor does it appear to be tied to an increase in gun ownership, which has been around 40% since 2000, though it is a slightly higher 45% in this year's update. The 2011 updates on these trends will appear on Gallup.com in the coming days.
Perhaps the trends are a reflection of the American public's acceptance of guns. In 2008, Gallup found widespread agreement with the idea that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of Americans to own guns. Americans may also be moving toward more libertarian views in some areas, one example of which is greater support for legalizing marijuana use. Diminished support for gun-control laws may also be tied to the lack of major gun-control legislation efforts in Congress in recent years."
Lookin good for public approval of 2nd A rights, not so good for Obama & his buds in the Chicago and D.C governments.
***The Gallup poll also found that for the first time opposition is greater than support for a ban on semi-automatic firearms****
Gun control began it’s roll in 1962 when Thomas J Dodd and Emauell Cellar proposed the first federal handgun registration. Gained momentum and picked up sporting rifles in 1963 with the Kennedy assasination.
Went into steam roller mode with the Robert Kennedy and M L King assasinations in 1968.
It kept rolling by the 1980s with calls not for registration but gun bans. It then picked up semi rifles to be banned.
It steamrolled through the 1990s and picked up the 50 cal rifles.
So goes California, so goes the US! But then, 19 moslems flew planes into the WTC and Pentegon, and one crashed in Pennsylvania.
Suddenly people who supported gun control had a wake up call and realized they just might need the weapons they were trying to ban if the mohammedans attack.
Only the die hards kept trying to ban such guns.
One shot per customer.
Yeah - I’m one of the “record low” that is translating my former air gun experience into handgun experience. I see Obama’s brownshirts setting up camps and know how this story is supposed to end from their perspective. Isn’t the logical response to be heavily armed when the SHTF? Rational people see how this is unfolding.
I hope and pray that you're right. The main thing that dampens my otherwise hopeful outlook on the issue is that the corrupt government thugs who run both Chicago and the D.C. are flipping a bird to the Supremes by simply writing new and equally restrictive gun laws that for all practical purposes simply re-install the old gun laws that the Court declared unconstitutional.
I recently watched a TV report by a female reporter who has been trying for almost a year to legally acquire a handgun in the D.C. under the "new and improved" gun laws of that city. She still doesn't have a gun, and it appears likely that she never will unless the Court cracks down on the government thugs who are determined to keep handgun possession illegal in that city.
“I vote ban the gun grabbers!”
Me too!
To paraphrase Chuck, they’ll have pry the gun from my cold deads hands!
I have a 9 mill, a shot gun and a long rifle — come get ‘em! Come get me! I’m mature and unafraid! I’ve learned that I’m really hard to kill and I don’t know how to quit!
OH, I have a concealed carry permit! Turns out I’m a fair shot. As are my Army sons!
Never heard of that ammo brand before. Thanks for the pic(tip).
Funny. I thought gun sales went up because of the election of the current denizen of the WH.
I know that I bought mine in case of another Katrina level event.
Funny. I thought gun sales went up because of the election of the current denizen of the WH.
I know that I bought mine in case of another Katrina level event.
did you say... Zombies??? 
I’m sure that this poll did not include California. Never have I seen such anti-gun nuts as the nuts in CA! Just recently they voted overwhelmingly in San Fran (I think it was 80% in favor) of an outright ban on hand guns within the city. Unfortunately for them the CA courts over-turned it as a State pre-emption law did not allow cities to enact gun bans. I’m sure our wonderful State legislature is working on reversing that decision.
Get ‘em at Cheaper Than Dirt.
That’s what I’m talking about....
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