I was kind of shocked to see this on CNN.
Perhaps the best way to understand the public mindset on the gun control debate is to look at Gallup polling from earlier this year. The survey asked a simple question and a follow-up: Are you satisfied with the nation’s gun laws? And if you’re unsatisfied, do you want stricter or looser gun laws?
This year, only 36% of Americans said they were dissatisfied and wanted stricter gun control laws. Sixty-one percent were either satisfied (41%), dissatisfied but wanted less strict laws (13%) or dissatisfied and wanted no change (7%).
These numbers do shift somewhat from year to year, but the “dissatisfied and want stricter gun laws” opinion has never been a majority one this century.
The reason I like the question is because it gets at the intensity of feelings about the gun debate. Most people are generally fine with our country’s gun laws (to the degree that they are satisfied) or want them to be less strict.
The level of gun ownership in this country has historically represented a healthy distrust of government. Recent gun sales reflect the current level of distrust and a realization that their government is not there to protect them from the sociopaths and psychopaths our devolving society is producing at a rapid pace. Even a dimwit can see that the political responses to mass shootings are merely offering bandaids for a terminal cancer. Government is in trouble when citizens consider themselves their best first responders.
>Government is in trouble when citizens consider themselves their best first responders.
One can only hope…
It’s pretty simple. The majority of adults in the country want the laws enforced in direct correlation to the breaking of said laws. Regardless of race, creed, sex, political affiliation, real math or common core math.
Innocents are just the collateral damage of a vibrant 2nd amendment .
I don’t know why supporters of the gun lobby just don’t state that obvious fact .
I’d respect them for their honesty .
>Innocents are just the collateral damage of a vibrant 2nd amendment
And yet when people say that same thing about innocents and whatever amendment enumerates abortions… You and your whole team go crazy.
If 21 recently formed embryo’s were stored in that Texas class room , would you be as upset at their loss as those of 2 Adults and 21 children ?
The contradiction is reserved solely for those on the gun side .
Jason, you nailed him. Now he’s just throwing a squid-cloud into the water.
> Innocents are just the collateral damage of a vibrant 2nd amendment .
I don’t know why supporters of the gun lobby just don’t state that obvious fact .
I’d respect them for their honesty .
That’s some world-class lefty lunatic thinking. Give that ghoul a participation trophy.
Government is in trouble when citizens consider themselves their best first responders.
I would suggest that a society is far better off when it’s citizens accept and take on the role of first responder .
A more accurate term might be “immediate responder” as well as “on-site deterrent”.
Sadly, most do not see or feel the need or responsibility, preferring run away, cower, relying on government to take care of it, to take care of everything. Except it doesn’t.
Government fails. Government is a co-conspirator. Witness the catch-and-release going on in all the big blue urban centers to the detriment – actual harm – of the law abiding. Witness our overrun borders.
Protect yourself. Protect others. Government will show up later to claim its authenticity and expertise while it servicing only itself.
Citizens as first responders ?
The trained professionals couldn’t properly respond to the situation in Texas .
Add in any yahoo with a gun into the situation ?
What could go wrong ?
“Yahoo”
Looking in a mirror, pal?
Some of us actually know a few things. Step aside. We’ll handle it.
Actually , what you know apparently didn’t work now did it ?
Step aside for cowardice and incompetence ? No chance .
Maley you’re the only one who doesn’t know anything.
https://www.wvnstv.com/digital-desk/whats-trending/charleston-police-woman-stops-gunman-at-party/
If the MSM weren’t biased, and the Democrat Party and followers weren’t sunch simps, you would hear more stories like this. They happen again and again and are suppressed.
In reality, the first ones who failed were the employees of the school district.
First, they left a door open, so the thug just walked in.
Then no one apparently noticed him walk around.
Tge question us how the thug got into the classroom.
If there was no lockdown at the time, then why?
If they had a lockdown, then, wasn’t the door locked as required during the lickdowns.
What gets me, is how the thug got into the classroom where the kids were killed but the cops could not.
I honestly don’t know the answer to that.
The little boys hide and hope for the State to rescue them, Maley.
Are you ever going to grow up?
What gets me, is how the thug got into the classroom where the kids were killed but the cops could not.
It was a double classroom with a john between the rooms. He simply locked the doors. The cops were too damned stupid to ask the janitor for a key. Or maybe they didn’t really want to get hurt before quitting time.
MuhMaley fails,the cognizant test: “ Citizens as first responders ? The trained professionals couldn’t properly respond…”
The irony of you failing to comprehend my point even as you wrote those words is staggering.
1) government “trained professionals” stand around, hold committee meeting. 19 killed.
2) brave citizen (a woman with more balls than you, MuhMan) acts immediately. 1 killed… the perp.
Pick one, dumbass.
(Note: the link in my first comment above now points to a different story. Here, with no mention of her CCL, is a watered down version from ABC sNew – https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-woman-killed-man-fired-rifle-party-crowd-85002437)