Posted on 11/16/2020 5:11:05 PM PST by Trump20162020
• GOP support for stricter gun laws has fallen 14 points since 2019 to new 22% low
• 25% of Americans favor a handgun ban in the U.S., near record low
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In the absence of a high-profile mass shooting in the U.S. in 2020 and amid the coronavirus pandemic, civil unrest related to racial justice issues and the contentious presidential election campaign, Americans are less likely than they have been since 2016 to call for increased gun control. The latest majority (57%) in the U.S. who call for stricter laws covering the sale of firearms marks a seven-percentage-point decline since last year. At the same time, 34% of U.S. adults prefer that gun laws be kept as they are now, while 9% would like them to be less strict.
Gallup has been tracking the public's views on this measure since 1990, when a record-high 78% of Americans supported stricter laws for gun sales as the nation's crime rate was rising. A majority of Americans held that position until 2008. Support then fell to a low of 43% in 2011, when an equal number said gun laws should be kept as is, but calls for stricter laws increased sharply to 58% in 2012 after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Good.
More and more kayaking accidents.
I call BS. August and September were record sales months. I bet October broke records as well.
Did you like read the headline wrong or something?
All of which is great news. I can only hope that those buying their first firearms finally understand just how much they’ve been lied to by left-wing politicians claiming buying a gun is as easy as buying ice cream. Particularly in states like Hawaii, Maryland, California, New Jersey, and New York; all their ridiculous requirements can leave you sitting there waiting for weeks or months. In 2013, Maryland’s process backlogged so badly there was an average of about 6 months to actually buy anything.
Which - of course - is exactly what their liberal legislature dreamed would happen.
I make sure to tell them that all those lies about gun show loop holes and internet gun buying aren’t true.
Gotta be a disgruntled “Trump cultist.”
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