Are the polls wrong? That’s a good question. Certainly after the disaster last November we shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss them. On the other hand, I don’t really doubt that pollsters would cook their results on something like gun control. But I’m not saying Pew and ABC have done so here. Frankly I’m surprised support for shredding the Second Amendment and banning ‘assault rifles’ isn’t above 70%.
But remember there was a Gallup poll taken in December that showed 51% opposed to banning ‘assault rifles’. And that was taken soon after the tragedy when one would expect support for gun bans to be highest. So which pollster is right? I don’t know. I hope it’s Gallup in this case.
I’m distressed by how almost all polls show strong majority support for some sort of gun registration/tracking system. I mean, this is undoubtedly the first step towards confiscation, so it makes no sense to me to support such a scheme if you also claim to support the right to own guns.
Your demographic analysis is spot on, unfortunately. The fastest growing ethnic groups - Asians and Hispanics - will not support the Second Amendment. They will support much stricter gun control. They will support various gun bans. So it’s absolutely true to say that our largely accidental, and mostly unwanted policy of unending mass immigration will play a major part in destroying the Second Amendment. I think it’s fair to say that to support mass immigration is to support the eventual destruction of gun owning rights.
I think it may already be too late. It’s pure fantasy to think the GOP will ever break even with immigrant communities. And with the GOP, led by Rubio and Ryan, about to sign on to amnesty for illegal aliens and increases in already-too-high levels of legal immigration, the demographic destruction of any conservative movement will be hastened. The only hope would be to avoid a path to citizenship for most illegals, and to reduce future legal immigration, but no Republican will run on such proposals.
That's the reality, yeah.
It didn't have to be that way. We are nation of immigrants, and if we taught our new Americans to understand and respect the Constitution, there would have been no reason to fear even high levels of immigration. Unfortunately conservatives ceded the education, media and entertainment establishments to the left. Immigrants know and care nothing about the Constitution, why free markets work, what made America great, etc.
I think it may already be too late
I suspect this is true. We still have to go through the motions and hope we're wrong, but yeah, I think we've likely passed the tipping point.