A poll released on Thursday found Americans rate gun policy as a top issue in elections and fear the potential for the government to overreach with new gun-control measures.
The Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey of 1,200 adults conducted between August 5 and 9 found 35 percent of respondents listed gun rights or gun control as the top issue they considered important enough to have an impact on their voting. That's more than environmental issues at 30 percent, immigration at 28 percent, or abortion at 17 percent. Respondents picked gun policy as important to their vote more often than any other issue surveyed, though issues like foreign policy, the economy, and national defense were purposefully left out of the question.
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There are occasions when fear is a very sane and rational response to a threat. To have a fear of gun restrictions is reasonable, as many politicians from a city mayors to members of Congress and past presidents have stated the desire to see more restrictive laws passed on the private ownership of firearms. In rare cases of honesty, they have stated that their ultimate goal is to have ALL firearms confiscated and the public disarmed. To see the natural consequence of this policy, all one has to do is review the history of the 20th century and the past 15 years or so, to see what happens to a nations citizens when they are disarmed and considered to be enemies of the state.
ReplyDelete"If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism"
-Thomas Sowell-
Given the current state of affairs and culture in our country, there is zero doubt in my mind that there are those who would use any pretext as a justification to commit murder if they could do so without the fear of consequence. The politicians want the public disarmed as a means of controlling them. The Lefties (aka Communist/Socialist) want the want the public disarmed so they can be murdered, in order to build their version of a utopian society (with them in charge of course).
Also, it is much easier to persuade the other guy that it would be very much in his best interest to leave you and your property unmolested, when he is looking at muzzle of your firearm.
"You see there are two kinds of people in the world, my friend. Those with load guns and those who dig. You dig."
-Blondie, from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly-
there is zero doubt in my mind that there are those who would use any pretext as a justification to commit murder if they could do so without the fear of consequence. .......The Lefties (aka Communist/Socialist) want the public disarmed so they can be murdered, in order to build their version of a utopian society (with them in charge of course).
Delete100% and they'll only have to kill 50 million this time......