Huge problem for gun-grabbers: Polls reveal Americans know guns make their homes and neighborhoods safer

By Patriot Outdoor News

A new poll from Rasmussen shows that Americans overwhelmingly want to live in neighborhoods where gun ownership is permitted.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 22% of Likely U.S. Voters would feel safer living in a neighborhood where nobody was allowed to own a gun over one where they could have a gun for their own protection. Sixty-eight percent (68%) would feel safer in a neighborhood where guns are allowed, while 10% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Yet many of the nation’s largest cities like New York; Chicago; and Washington, D.C. enforce severe limits, amounting to outright bans on gun ownership. I think this can be attributed to what I like to call the “blue disease” – a collection of obsessions and phobias that motivate progressives. I discovered the gun phobia of progressives in discussions with my Berkeley neighbors in the wake of a terrible murder that occurred a few blocks away, in which an unarmed elderly man was assaulted and bludgeoned to death by a mentally deranged man. The murder took some time to accomplish – the perp left the property but came back, …read more

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