A new survey by Pew Research Center finds that 60 percent of the public says that states should not be allowed to ignore federal gun laws, while 36 percent say that states should be able to ignore federal gun laws, if they choose to do so.
What do you think? Cast a vote in our poll and drop a comment below. We've still got a lively discussion over the question I posed in yesterday's column, Why do we own guns?
Pew found that gun owners were divided over whether states should be allowed to ignore federal gun laws: 49 percent said they should, while 48 percent disagreed. Among those in gun-owning households who do not themselves own guns, 59 percent oppose states ignoring federal gun laws; among those in households without guns, 67 percent were opposed.
Republicans, by a 58 percent to 37 percent margin, said that states should be allowed to ignore federal gun laws if they so choose. About four-in-ten (38 percent) independents and just 18 percent of Democrats favor giving states the option to ignore federal gun laws.
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Unless I missed it we still have a constitution that has both the second and tenth amendments.
ReplyDeleteHere is the tenth amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
This means that the states can pass laws to stop the feds from disemboweling the constitution. Dems da facts.
The 10th is probably ignored more than any of the others.
DeleteThese polls are bullshit!!
ReplyDeleteDoug
I'd argue that the 1oth is now and has been since the Wilson years the most violated of the amendments. Like the freedom of religion clause of the 1st, the government and the left have completely turned the amendments upside down and interpreted them to mean the exact oposite of what they say. The 10th was placed in the Bill of Rights to facilitate and promote interstate commerce, not to control it. The federal government has no constitutional right to
ReplyDeletecontrol or even comment on the free excercise of religion, commerce or firearms yet we have allowed them to do so.
I get particularly bent out of shape when the left says "you don't need a bazooka". Where do they think the cannons that helped us win revolution came from? Many of them were the personal property of ship owners and small coastal towns. Purchased and placed with private funds to defend personal property and placed in to service to defend the new nation.
Good post and agree 100%
DeleteThis pollster can cram his poll where the sun don't shine. "The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".
ReplyDeleteBTW....fuck Piers Morgan AND the Queen !
Gun control laws are repugnant to the Constitution and are null and void. Time to formally revoke, repeal and abolish all gun control laws before we are embroiled in another War of Northern Aggression.
ReplyDeleteBegin by revoking the 1934 National Firearms Act.
Next, revoke all stalinist commies with extreme prejudice.
Southron
Good to go!
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