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Survey bad news for gun-grabbers
There’s a reason President Obama must resort to executive orders on gun control: The American people don’t want it.
Americans gave CBS/New York Times pollsters one for their record books this week. The majority of survey respondents said for the first time in 20 years that they do not favor a nationwide ban on so-called “assault weapons.”
Fifty percent of those asked, “Do you favor or oppose a nationwide ban on assault weapons?” rejected calls for such a measure; 44 percent said they were in favor of a ban, and six percent said they did not know.
“The big shift is that Americans have finally begun to tire of the ‘we need to ban scary looking weapons that don’t differ much from other weapons’ demagoguery that Democrats have been pushing for the last few years,” the website HotAir responded Friday. “One might have thought that the 2014 elections would have provided some clue, but perhaps a poll in the New York Times will have a little more impact.”
“Assault weapon” is essentially a meaningless term since any weapon can be used in an assault. The response is significant, however, because pollsters regularly use the term in ways that can apply to almost any rifle or handgun.
The results also come just two days after White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said Obama was preparing executive orders to close the so-called “gun show loophole.”
“Only 44 percent of Americans favor a ban on assault weapons, 19 percentage points lower than after the mass shooting in Tucson in 2011. And while 51 percent favor stricter gun control in general, that is down from 58 percent in October,” the newspaper reported.
It was less than two weeks ago that Obama made another pitch to the American people to toughen gun laws across the nation. The president used the Dec. 2 Islamic terror attacks in San Bernardino, California, as the catalyst for a speech on background checks.
“The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world. And there are some steps we could take not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don’t happen as frequently: common-sense gun safety laws, stronger background checks,” Obama said during an interview with CBS Dec. 2.
Islamic radicals Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, killed 14 and wounded 21 during their attack on the Inland Regional Center, which serves those with developmental disabilities and their families. The two were killed in a shootout with cops hours later.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/poll-history-majority-oppose-assault-weapons-ban/
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