Thursday, October 29, 2015
Look no farther than the NRA
If you are looking for a cabal of thugs and gangbangers responsible for so many needless deaths in our country. And polls show that support for reasonable public safety laws to keep guns out of the hands of the unfit is increasing.
Americans’ appetite for more gun control has increased slightly over the past two years, according to poll results released Tuesday, and the National Rifle Association launched a campaign calling for the federal government to better enforce existing regulations and put, as the NRA’s chief put it, “thugs” and “gangbangers” in prison.Needless to say, that bloodthirsty enabler of illegal guns and rampant shootings, Wayne LaPierre thought this is a bad idea. Of course Wayne is safe within the gun free zones enforced whenever around NRA management is around. What, you think they are a bunch of fools?
An Associated Press/GFK poll found that 58 percent of Americans support stronger gun laws, compared with 52 percent in December 2013. But the poll showed that Democrats and Republicans as well as rural and urban Americans remain sharply divided over what should be done to reduce the 30,000 gun deaths — 20,000 of them suicides — reported in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 80 percent of Democrats surveyed expressed support for stronger gun regulations, compared with 46 percent of moderate and liberal Republicans, the AP poll found. Among all surveyed Republicans, 20 percent thought existing gun laws should be less strict, and 41 percent said they favored no change.
Americans living in urban areas, especially the Northeast, were more likely to favor restrictions, with 60 percent saying new laws would be a good idea. In rural areas, just 40 percent said they wanted new laws.
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