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  • ToolAA

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    If you just want polling stats this link is directly to the Gallup report. Not much spin, just their data. https://news.gallup.com/poll/357317/stricter-gun-laws-less-popular.aspx

    Few interesting data points.

    52% of Americans want stricter gun laws, lowest since 2014

    Independents' support for stricter gun laws down 15 points since 2020

    Record-low 19% favor handgun ban in U.S., down from 25% last year

    The decline in support for stricter gun laws last year was mostly due to a 14-point drop among Republicans, to 22% -- the group's lowest point on record. This year's decrease is driven by a 15-point plunge among independents. For their part, Democrats' desire for more restrictive gun laws ticked up to 91%.

    So remember that even today 22% of republicans support stricter gun control laws. However 9% of democrats do not support tougher laws.

    Also an interesting clip:
    Generally, the public favors stricter laws when Republicans are in office and less strict laws when Democrats are.

    Why do you think this is? I would expect it to be the opposite.
     

    Kicken Wing

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    If you just want polling stats this link is directly to the Gallup report. Not much spin, just their data. https://news.gallup.com/poll/357317/stricter-gun-laws-less-popular.aspx

    Few interesting data points.



    So remember that even today 22% of republicans support stricter gun control laws. However 9% of democrats do not support tougher laws.

    Also an interesting clip:


    Why do you think this is? I would expect it to be the opposite.


    That last line is interesting. I wonder if it is because when a republican is office, it makes the hair stand up on the back of the dems necks? Republicans = fear + guns = bad. The narrative is pushed more to smear us since they feel out of control.

    Perhaps dems feel like they have more important things to do when they are in power and guns are not at the top of the list? Obama certainly scared the pants off of their base of voters after Sandy Hook. Guns were at the top of the list in late 2012 through 2013. Anti gun rhetoric reached a fever pitch.

    It seems backwards to me too. Right now the dems are more concerned about correct pronouns and creating more victims that they can pander to.
     

    Bullfrog

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    Generally, the public favors stricter laws when Republicans are in office and less strict laws when Democrats are.

    Why do you think this is? I would expect it to be the opposite.

    Perhaps people feel that Republicans would tend to pass something more balanced and limited in scope which would be acceptible to more of the people in the middle, while Democrats would go for something over-the-top and beyond what anyone but the die-hard antis would want.
     

    Bob A

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    I'd wonder whether the only people willing to define themselves as Democrats in the current polls are the extremists; bearing responsibility for electing something like Biden is not a stance a responsible person would care to admit to. How many Dems will have been shamed into turning Independent?
     

    ToolAA

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    I'd wonder whether the only people willing to define themselves as Democrats in the current polls are the extremists; bearing responsibility for electing something like Biden is not a stance a responsible person would care to admit to. How many Dems will have been shamed into turning Independent?


    The most critical aspect of polling is to ensure that you are collecting a truly representative sample. I would expect that Galllup compares the sample responses to the percentages of registered voters. So there could be some cases were a more moderate person who as previously identified as a specific party will move away from the party when they disagree with the direction, I suspect that number is factored into the polling calculations.
     

    ToolAA

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    Perhaps people feel that Republicans would tend to pass something more balanced and limited in scope which would be acceptible to more of the people in the middle, while Democrats would go for something over-the-top and beyond what anyone but the die-hard antis would want.


    The more I think about this statement the more it doesn’t make sense. Does the public favor higher taxes when republicans control government? How about abortion? If the answers and polling data shows similar trends then I would be surprised.
     

    ShafTed

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    Also an interesting clip:

    Generally, the public favors stricter laws when Republicans are in office and less strict laws when Democrats are.

    Why do you think this is? I would expect it to be the opposite.

    It's really quite simple, everyone knows that Demonrats in power = pure & applied socialism, which means very bad things for We The People, and they want to be able to stop it. Hence, the need for fewer gun restriction laws in order to restrain the Demonrats.
     

    Melnic

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    Why do you think this is? I would expect it to be the opposite.


    Simple

    when Dems are in office, there is Chaos, thus public wants to be armed.
    When Republicans are in office, the Dem controlled media hypes up ANY gun violence/mass shooter events Blames the gun and thus works the Dems up into a frenzy.
     

    Jim12

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    People don't realize how much gun control there already is; they usually find out only if and when they try to buy one. I suspect that most are surprised and even annoyed by the inconvenience.

    And, if people who want more gun control knew that the vast majority of gun-involved crimes wouldn't have occurred if already-existing laws hadn't been broken, their tune about wanting stricter laws would change. They'd want better enforcement. Of course, we would need an honest media and politicians without an agenda.
     

    K31

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    More people have found that they need guns, even for some of life's otherwise mundane functions.

     

    woodline

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    People don't realize how much gun control there already is; they usually find out only if and when they try to buy one. I suspect that most are surprised and even annoyed by the inconvenience.

    And, if people who want more gun control knew that the vast majority of gun-involved crimes wouldn't have occurred if already-existing laws hadn't been broken, their tune about wanting stricter laws would change. They'd want better enforcement. Of course, we would need an honest media and politicians without an agenda.
    Every liberal member of my family who has tried to buy a firearm has come back empty handed, and very frustrated with how hard it is. Anecdotal, but I find it entertaining.

    As far as I know, every single one has complained loudly about it and then continued to vote for anti gun politicians.
     

    ras_oscar

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    I don't really believe Biden actually wants more gun control. He wants an issue that can unite the left and right wings of his party and gloss over the deep differences that would otherwise tear the party apart. As more Americans become gun owners they see the issue quite differently. Non owners see firearms as a sort of 1911 shaped cloud that hangs over the violent parts of the country. They think that simply banning guns would lift that cloud. Blame the instrument not the person holding it. As more citizens become owners, it becomes more personal, since the laws actually affect their lives and property rights as individuals.
     

    ToolAA

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    I just ran across this scholarly piece by two professors of neurosurgery. Applicable to a number of threads.

    Is gun control really about people control?


    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6800291/


    Interesting read. I hadn’t heard about Dr. Faria before but it looks like he works in parallel with John Lott.

    [ Bio: Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D. escaped with his father from communist Cuba at age 13 and came to the United States after a three-month odyssey through several Caribbean islands. They lived in "Little Havana" in Miami for two and one-half years before being reunited with the rest of their family. He grew up and was educated in Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia. Presently, he is Associate Editor-in-Chief in Socioeconomics, Politics, Medicine and World Affairs of Surgical Neurology International (SNI), a peer-review, online, international journal for neurosurgeons and neuroscientists. Dr. Faria is a former Clinical Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery, ret.) and Adjunct Professor of Medical History (ret.), Mercer University School of Medicine. Dr. Faria was appointed and served at the behest of President George W. Bush as member of the Injury Research Grant Review Committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


    The paper you cite was published in 2019. Several of the footnote citations within point to his OWN book also released in 2019. That detail does give me some reason for bit if skepticism, not necessarily with the content of the paper but more or less the motivation for the timing if the publication. With the way the internet works now, I think publishing companies want to create online content which links to and cites published work as a marketing tool.

    Here is the link to his book, for those who may be interested. https://www.amazon.com/America-Guns-Freedom-Miguel-Faria/dp/164307217X/
     

    Benny

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    If you just want polling stats this link is directly to the Gallup report. Not much spin, just their data. https://news.gallup.com/poll/357317/stricter-gun-laws-less-popular.aspx

    Few interesting data points.



    So remember that even today 22% of republicans support stricter gun control laws. However 9% of democrats do not support tougher laws.

    Also an interesting clip:


    Why do you think this is? I would expect it to be the opposite.



    I think voters distrust Dem overreach and associate Dem leadership with increased threats to personal safety from crime.

    BTW, carjackings are up 190% in Montgomery County.

    https://wjla.com/amp/news/local/mon...ar-compared-to-2019-majority-in-silver-spring


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    XJ.Cherokee

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    People don't realize how much gun control there already is; they usually find out only if and when they try to buy one. I suspect that most are surprised and even annoyed by the inconvenience.

    And, if people who want more gun control knew that the vast majority of gun-involved crimes wouldn't have occurred if already-existing laws hadn't been broken, their tune about wanting stricter laws would change. They'd want better enforcement. Of course, we would need an honest media and politicians without an agenda.

    You nailed it on the head. Every debate I've gotten into has been with ill informed people that think you can just waltz into Walmart and come away with a machine gun
     

    Mark75H

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    Unless you've been living under a rock it should be clear that public opinion doesn't matter when the left-wing agenda is being pushed. Gun control isn't a public safety issue.. regardless of what people think. Gun control is about controlling the population and therefore public opinion isn't even considered when violating our rights
     

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