A whopping 81 percent of Republicans favor background checks for private gun sales, according to a Pew Research poll released Thursday.
But just 57 percent of Republicans said they wanted a background checks bill to pass.
“Many of those who have reservations about the bill express concerns that it includes other restrictions beyond background checks, or that it opens a ‘slippery slope’ toward more government power,” the survey concluded.
In other words they would be all for the idea of background checks if there was somebody else besides that "Socialist Muslim Commie" in the White House. After all they are convinced, despite every thing he has ever said, that he is coming to take away their guns so they cannot protect themselves against the great government take over.
Overall, 81 percent of Americans support broader background checks, the survey said. The partisan differences were minimal: 83 percent of Democrats and 80 percent of independents.
But a majority of the public, 56 percent, has soured on the prospects of Congress passing new gun control laws this year.
So essentially the Republicans have done what they set out to do, which is to slow the process down until they have out lasted the public's passion for stricter gun laws after the Sandy Hook massacre.
Their success should make ALL of us sick to our stomachs and get us fired up to replace these obstructionists with politicians who are not working for the NRA but rather for the American people.
I blame -- in part -- Democrats. They need to grow some balls and learn from Republicans, who do one thing right, they frame issues so that it is easy for stupid people to understand.
ReplyDeleteTHE NRA AND GOP WANT CRAZY PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO BUY GUNS LEGALLY!
That's all you ducking need to say.
Your sister with the crazy ex-boyfriend who's stalking her --
THE NRA AND THE GOP WANT HIM TO BE ABLE TO WALK INTO ANY GUN SHOW IN AMERICA AND BUY AS MUCH GUNS AND AMMO AS HE WANTS!
This is all true. It's not like Crazy Face Michelle Bachmann who keeps saying that the IRS will be in charge of our health care. This is 100 percent what failure to pass this bill means. They need to use bombastic language to SHAME the GOP to support the bill. Mostly, they need to SHAME the NRA and turn thugs around on them so that getting a good rating from them is bad. But do they do this! No. They never do it on any issues and its fucking annoying.
I'm a lifelong, dyed in the wool, bleeding heart liberal. But I find it so frustrating that our side loses arguments that we should be winning -- like this one -- by not pointing out the true and obvious points.
They shouldn't do this just for political reasons -- they need to so this because its best for the country.
I totally agree!
DeleteYou are completely right.
DeleteI am sorry, but these people are beyond shame, they are on patrol and anything that doesn’t look, eat, talk or act like them is suspect and thus an enemy. We need to simply stop paying attention to them and continue cleaning up the mess Bush left for the Dems to clean up. Remember, when Clinton left office there was a budget surplus! 9/11 should have been resolved as a criminal case on the international stage, not as a war and the Kyoto Treaty should have been ratified so as to slow climate change. Instead the Supreme Court gave us Bush, two wars, a calamitous financial collapse and continuous defense contracting welfare. The bridge on I-5 should have been repaired before it fell, but we paid for missiles and bombs instead. This is our taxpayer money people, we earned it!!!! Let’s put people to work doing the work of the people and for the people.
DeleteYou are completely right - except for one point:
ReplyDeleteIT ISN'T POSSIBLE TO SHAME THE NRA!
Typical asshole Republicans! A detested party of fools!
ReplyDeleteTHis isn't even anything new that would lead to a "slippery slope" since this is NO different than the GOP assault weapons ban from yrs ago that GOPers let expire. This just has to do with racists unable to deal in their pithy little minds that we have a BLACK man in the WH.
ReplyDeleteBTW I have hunted since I was 7 (we started out early on the reservation because even us little ones liked to eat)
competed in target shooting, biathlon competitions for yrs. I have many pistols, shotguns, hunting rifles, and many target shooting rifles that were never affected by President REAGANS ban nor would they be affected by a President Obama ban.
This all comes down to a bunch of scared racists that think once whites are no longer a majority(its coming very, very soon) that they will be treated like they treated every minority.
Signed Little Rabbit
Right on, Little Rabbit! Racism is a major concern for the idiot white men we have in "control" right now and the firearms issue is one of those things they fear because of it. (BTW, I am what used to be called a WASP. White/Anglo-Saxon/Protestant. Well. USED to be Protestant!)
DeleteFor centuries the european stock peoples have believed themselves top race and better than everyone else. They are actually AFRAID of no longer being greater than 50% of the population here. Hell, European Man is so stupid they even portray JESUS as white! Ignorant shits! (Of course, I see "portraits" of Jesus as black in black churches, too, so....)
Southern religious teachings and biases and hatreds are playing far too great a part in our politics when they shouldn't be playing ANY part. And racism is one of the big things.
Gun Control Polls Reveal Frustration With Both Parties, High Ongoing Support For Background Checks
ReplyDeleteSupport for expanding background checks to more gun purchases remains high, according to polls released Thursday. But the surveys provide mixed evidence on how the Senate's defeat of the Manchin-Toomey proposal might affect future electoral support for opponents of greater background checks.
According to a Pew Research Center survey released Thursday and conducted earlier in May, 81 percent of Americans said they continue to back making gun show and private firearms sales subject to background checks, while only 17 percent said they were opposed. A HuffPost/YouGov poll also conducted in early May showed respondents in favor of expanding background checks by a 74 percent to 16 percent margin.
Both the Pew survey and a new Washington Post/ABC News poll found that support for the defeated Manchin-Toomey measure, which would have expanded background checks to all gun show and online purchases, is also widespread. In the Pew survey, 73 percent said the Manchin-Toomey proposal should be passed if reintroduced, while 67 percent of respondents to the Post/ABC poll said the Senate did the wrong thing in rejecting the legislation.
Americans were more likely to tell Pew that they supported expanding background checks generally than that they wanted Congress to pass the Manchin-Toomey measure. Much that drop-off occurred among Republicans, 81 percent of whom said they favor greater checks but only 57 percent of whom said they want the specific proposal to pass.
The Pew survey found a close divide between the 50 percent who said it's more important to "control gun ownership" and the 48 percent who said it's more important to "protect the rights of Americans to own guns." But when asked whether they would vote for a candidate who disagreed with them on gun policy even if they agreed on other issues, those emphasizing gun rights were more likely to say no (41 percent) than those emphasizing gun control (31 percent). The former were also more likely to say they have donated money to an organization taking a position on gun policy, by 12 percent to 3 percent. The two groups were about equally likely to say they have contacted an elected official to express an opinion on gun policy.
In other words, the Pew poll confirms the conventional wisdom of an enthusiasm gap in favor of opponents of gun control. But the Post/ABC poll suggests that the enthusiasm edge goes to gun control supporters on the specific issue of background checks.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/24/gun-control-polls_n_3327279.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
It is pretty clear who the racists are in this country. There really is no difficulty seeing through this obstructionism and the only answer is to continue electing liberal candidates so these idiots see they are the minority, not the majority. We are moving on —they aren’t. There is no effort to understand the lessons of history with this bunch. They want us to continue behaving like we are little disparate tribes in harm’s way at all times. It must be weary inducing to be on guard and fearful 24/7.
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