Recent Poll Suggests Gun Control Not Nearly As Popular As Claimed

By Tom Knighton

Ever since the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, we’ve heard plenty about how the public supports gun control. In some people’s minds, that’s the important thing. After all, who cares about rights if the majority doesn’t like that right?

However, there’s now some evidence to suggest that the “majority” isn’t nearly as big as the media have been claiming.

Besides Vox, Morning Consult’s own summary of the poll emphasized the gun issue as a campaign priority, as “climate change, gun policy and recent state abortion legislation top Democratic voters’ list of topics they most want[ed] to hear during” the debates. Sixty-two percent of self-identified Democratic voters said that it was “very important” that gun issues be discussed, ranking gun policy second among 17 named issues overall and statistically tied with climate change and abortion for the top slot.

Not a big surprise, really, but also not as monolithic a response as it may appear, for two reasons: First, a substantial split between the hyper-Left Democratic core and more moderate elements of the party; and, second, counterbalancing attitudes from Republican and Independent voters.

Seventy-two percent of “strong Democrats” called the gun policy discussion very important, compared to 47% …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms