A NEW New Poll by CNN: No New Gun Controls
I recently mentioned a Gallup Poll pointing to the fact that people supporting new gun controls were in the minority (by a teeny bit) but it turned out that that poll was taken last October.
In an odd turn of events, CNN — which works hard to influence people to support more gun control — has a brand NEW poll, taken AFTER the Binghamton shootings, showing a more significant drop in support for additional gun control:
From Oakland, California, to Binghamton, New York, several mass shootings in recent weeks have killed dozens across the country. But has there been an effect on public opinion?
Yes, and in a surprising way.
Since 2001, most Americans have favored stricter gun laws, though support has slightly dropped in recent years: 54 percent favored stricter laws in 2001, compared with 50 percent in 2007, according to Gallup polling.
Now, a recent poll reveals a sudden drop — only 39 percent of Americans now favor stricter gun laws, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll.
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The poll, based on phone interviews with 1,023 U.S. adults from Friday through Sunday, were conducted after Friday’s mass shooting in Binghamton, New York, where 13 people were killed at an immigrant services center.
I’m starting to wonder if the fact that the MSM is spending more time profiling the sick mutants who commit mass shootings is having an unintended — for the anti-gun media — effect of convincing many that it really IS the mind of the killer, not his weapon, that is the problem.
Naah, that would mean the drones who believe everything they see on TV news are starting to think for themselves.
CNN blames Obama. Heh.
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on 11 Apr 2009 at 11:16 am # Ken
There never has been a large grass-roots support for gun control. Most people, even if they don’t own guns, have friends who do. The support for gun control has always been a top-down phenomenon, supported by politicians and political activists who depend on violence for their power. Examples are the Daley crime family in Chicago, ACORN, and the radical union activists (as opposed to ordinary union members, who pay their dues and go on strike, but don’t take part in pickets in order to beat up old ladies–those people are enthusiastically pro-gun).
I remember reading about a poll taken after the 2000 election. The pollsters had expected to find fairly strong pro-gun attitudes in “red” states, and fairly strong anti-gun attitudes in “blue” states. What they found instead was that the pro-gun people were willing to base their vote on this one issue, and that even many “blue” states still had pro-gun majorities, although not enough to swing the vote to Bush. Even in the most Democrat states, there was relatively little enthusiasm for gun control. (This also means that Bush blew the opportunity for a landslide, Reagan-type victory by not taking a hard line on gun rights).
on 11 Apr 2009 at 12:00 pm # anonymous
“most Americans have favored stricter gun laws,”
Do most Americans even know what the current gun laws are?
If somebody believes that a ten year old can purchase a nuclear armed shoulder fired rocket at a gun show^W^W flea market for terrorists without a background check, then their opinion that American needs “stricter gun laws” does not carry much weight.
on 11 Apr 2009 at 12:56 pm # Ric Locke
You may very well be right — you probably are, in fact — about the effect of depicting the shooters as deranged.
The other thing, though, is the police response. Cops are inevitably “waiting until it’s safe to go in”, which gives the shooters plenty of time to have their fun.
It may very well be beginning to sink in that the police are there to clean up afterwards, not to protect anybody.
Regards,
Ric
on 11 Apr 2009 at 2:16 pm # The_raptor
The problem with gun control is that it’s not just the Government who’s pushing it. The problem is the so-called policy think tanks like the Joyce Foundation and organizations like Mayors Against Illegal Handguns. These organizations front for a lot of very rich folks who have a lot of money and an agenda to “improve American society”. The average Joe gets their propaganda shoved in his face by the MSM and believes what he’s told without thinking about it.
The very wealthly are the ones pushing for gun control and it’s very dangerous. We’ve had various individuals throughout our history pushing this cause or that cause, often with disastrous results.
on 11 Apr 2009 at 5:34 pm # Thane Eichenauer
I’d say that regardless of any given MSM poll (because we shouldn’t trust these folks due to their bias) findings that “We the People” of America are a bit smarter then the polligartchy at CNN/ABC/CBS/NBC. I would presume that CNN used a different question this time and got a different result.
As for as the portrayal of the perpetrators, I’d have to say there isn’t much more or less coverage than in the past but I do note that the news title says “North Carolina nursing home shooter claims he took ‘nerve pills,’ doesn’t remember rampage”. Given that Robert Stewart isn’t the first mass killer on pills leads me to be more sympathetic to the CCHR position that psychiatric drugs are dangerous.
on 12 Apr 2009 at 3:02 pm # Robert
Looks like the American People are more aware of the obsolescence of gun control.
Here’s a repeat of a previous post I made.
Not only can a submachine gun be homemade (as well as its ammunition), technological trends are already putting the final nail in gun control’s coffin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPhbdW9SxEM
http://cba.mit.edu/about/index.html
on 13 Apr 2009 at 12:21 am # john
The people know that their self defense is up to the individual.The police will not help you. the picture of the police hangig around outside the Bingampton shoot ing ought to be held up by us at every function for forever. Never forget they stood outside until the shooting stopped.
As Dave says when seconds count the police are only minutes away
on 13 Apr 2009 at 12:29 pm # Ken
Robert,
Regarding the technological obsolescence of gun control, I think that pretty much indicates the future political breakdown on nanotechnology, when it becomes available. Generally, those politicians, mostly on the left, who support gun control will oppose nanotech, and the mostly right-wing politicians who support the 2nd Amendment will support nanotech. Sound reasonable, or am I missing something?
on 16 Apr 2009 at 11:29 pm # Robert
Ken,
You’re not missing anything Ken. Unfortunately for the leftists, they won’t be able to control any arms of any kind thanks to the nature of these technologies.