POLL: Public Sees No Need For New Gun Laws As Gun Culture Grows
By Bob Owens
Despite a mainstream media which slants coverage in order to drum up the illusion of widespread “gun violence,” 59-percent of Americans feel that the nation’s gun laws are either “about right” or “too strict.”
Only 41-percent of those polled want more strict gun control laws:
For the first time since its inception, a CNN/ORC poll finds that most Americans do not believe current gun laws make it “too easy” for Americans to buy guns.
When asked, “In your view, do existing laws make it too easy for people to buy guns, too difficult, or are they about right?”, 49 percent of respondents said “about right.”
Forty-one percent of respondents said current law made it “too easy” for people to buy guns and 10 percent said they made it “too difficult.” Only 1 percent of respondents had no opinion.
The poll has asked the question periodically since 1989. This is the first time that less than 56 percent of respondents have said guns are “too easy” to buy. In August 1993, 70 percent of respondents had answered guns were “too easy” to buy, the poll’s all-time high.
This polls represents a dramatic reversal in the nation’s attitudes about about firearms and the Second …read more
Source:: Bearing Arms
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