New Gallup Poll – Americans Consider Government A Much Bigger Problem Than Guns
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
U.S. President Barack Obama is not just the world’s best gun salesman, he’s also the world’s worst gun control spokesperson.
Despite immediately politicizing every single shooting event in recent years by using his bully pulpit to lecture the American public on why citizens must give up their rights to feel safe, his message has fallen on deaf ears. Why?
Mainly because a man who consistently orders drone strikes on women and children all over the world, intentionally bombs a Doctors Without
Borders hospital into oblivion, and who launched more shady wars across the globe than George W. Bush, doesn’t exactly hold much credibility as a humanitarian pacifist looking to “save the children.”
– From the post: A Majority of Americans Oppose “Assault Weapons Ban” – Highest Number on Record
We learned the above just last month, which makes the latest findings on how Americans view gun control consistent with previously observed attitudes. Meanwhile, Nick Gillespie over at Reason explains the latest poll results from Gallup, and highlights how Obama continues to force an alternative agenda on the American people:
The first major action taken by Barack Obama in 2016—a set of new gun-control measures mandated via executive order—is aimed at a threat that Americans don’t spend a lot of time worrying about.
In its latest survey of Americans, Gallup finds that “dissatisfaction with government,” not guns or even terrorism, tops the list of concerns:
Obama’s new actions against guns include expanding background checks; changing definitions of mental illness in a way that limits who is able to own guns; increasing the number of federal agents charged with tracking gun sales and crimes; and more.
Because violent crime, including gun-related crime and murders, is way down, gun-control issues don’t generally capture the public imagination the way that they would in a world of increasing murder rates. In the same Gallup survey that listed “dissatisfaction with government” as the top concern for each of the past two years, “guns/Gun control” was considered “the most important problem” by 2 percent of respondents, about the same who listed “lack of respect for each other” and pollution.
Yet Obama pushes forward with measures that even he acknowledges “will save few lives,” almost certainly more out of politics than an interest in dealing with the most serious problems facing the country.
Obama’s willingness to always pivot to issues that are not front and center, along with his willingness to expand the role of the state in virtually every aspect of our lives from health care to mass surveillance is surely a big part of the reason why people are consistently worried more about government than anything else. In this, of course, he’s had plenty of help from Republicans and his fellow Democrats, which also helps to explain another Gallup finding released this time last year: “In U.S. New Record 43% Are Independents.”
Now let’s look at the detailed breakdown from Gallup. It’s not even close, gun control barely registers.
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Hard to get people fired up about gun crime when the vast majority of gun crime is inter-city thugs killing thugs. Take that out and America is one of the safest places on earth...
I once saw a stat chart that removed bob crime and America looks as good as a skandi country.
That is why nobody cares. Might be sad - and I'm sure it's morally wrong - but it illustrates the real REASON nobody cares...
It's sadly, a self correcting/governing mechanism in US society today.
Apparently black lives only matter if they are taken by non-blacks. It seems that most of US society is just fine with that.
Maybe America is fine with that because blacks are fine with that?
The totalitarians don't want you to have weapons. It just makes it harder for them to enslave you.
God Damned straight!. As per Washington's blog, Snowden etc...the government and big corporate America is a cesspool of corruption. No wonder Hillary is salivating over a chance to become presiodent. She'll loot the country for all she can get.
Yeah, I fear the government more than any cheap punk hoodlum with a gun. At least it's not difficult to understand what he wants and I can face my enemy.
If he really wanted to keep more young people from dying he would be going after the pharmaceutical companies, 1 person dies every 19 minutes from prescription drugs... He's really not clueless, he's pure evil!
Apparently forcing people to spend their grocery money on Obama Care was a bad idea. Keep it up idiots, the sheep are starting to awaken. Right about now would be a great time to throw out some really hard gun control measures and pretend to cry about it on TV, making a huge ass of yourself, again.
Make sure that you import and extra ten thousand refugees while everybody is broke too. That should do it.
the sheep are waking up to tune into reality tv shows and then go back to sleep you mean
It does not matter what the polls reflect; in a dictatorship run by Executive Decrees, no Rule of Law applies.
It's only January. What draconian edicts will be declared by August?
Don't forget that the agenda is always pushed hard by a compliant media, who make sure the public only see and hear what they want them to see and hear!
This is a prime example of this type of underreporting, because it does not fit the agenda......
http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2016/01/1000-depraved-migrants-ra...
Keep your eye on the ball.
WS and Government and FED funding of private banks is the real issue.
Everything else is a smokescreen.
They fooled ya! The government is nothing but a puppet for the banks and large corporations. Your anger is misguided.
Americans don’t consider guns/gun control the most important problem in 2015 because they still have guns. Keep in mind pollsters are not your friend; the subjects they pick and the leading questions they use almost always have a motive, usually against the freedoms of the people. Americans have a choice in 2016 as to whether or not they want to keep and bear arms.
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The mood of the People is always right.
Like a trip hammer.
Over and over again.
Tell them what finances all this.
Like a trip hammer.
Over and over again.
Tell them what finances all this.
"Americans Consider Government A Much Bigger Problem Than Guns"
That says it perfectly in 9 words.
As for Obola and his armed escorts: "a picture speaks a 1,000 words"
Well PCR just wrote another great diatribe. Seems USA is close to brink, lets hope not. Makes sense why so many wealthy business owners and double dipping pensioners left within last two years.
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The Rule Of Law No Longer Exists In Western Civilization
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My work documenting how the law was lost began about a quarter of a century ago.
A close friend and distinguished attorney, Dean Booth, first brought to my attention the erosion of the legal principles on which rests the rule of law in the United States. My columns on the subject got the attention of an educational institution that invited me to give a lecture on the subject. Subsequently, I was invited to give a lecture on “How The Law Was Lost” at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York City.
The work coalesced into a book, The Tyranny Of Good Intentions, coauthored with my research associate, Lawrence M. Stratton, published in 2000, with an expanded edition published in 2008. We were able to demonstrate that Sir Thomas More’s warning about prosecutors and courts disregarding law in order to more easily convict undesirables and criminals has had the result of turning law away from being a shield of the people and making it into a weapon in the hands of government. That is what we witness in the saga of the Hammonds, long-time ranchers in the Harney Basin of Oregon.
With the intervention of Ammon Bundy, another rancher who suffered illegal persecution by the Bureau of Land Management but stood them off with help from armed militia, and his supporters, the BLM’s decades long persecution of the innocent Hammonds might have come to a crisis before you read this.
Bundy and militiamen, whose count varies from 15 to 150 in the presstitute media, have seized an Oregon office of the BLM as American liberty’s protest against the frame-up of the Hammonds on false charges. As I write the Oregon National Guard and FBI are on the way.
The militiamen have said that they are prepared to die for principles, and the rule of law is one of them. Of course, the presstitute media is making the militiamen into the lawbreakers—and even calling them terrorists—and not the federal government’s illegal prosecution of the Hammonds, whose crime was their refusal to sell their ranch to the government to be included in the Masher National Wildlife Refuge.
If there are only 15 militiamen, there is a good chance that they will all be killed, but if there are 150 armed militiamen prepared for a shootout, the outcome could be different.
I cannot attest to the accuracy of this report of the situation:https://www.superstation95.com/index.php/world/723 The resources required to verify the information in this account of how the government escalated a “crisis” out of the refusal of a family to bend is beyond the resources of this website. However, the story fits perfectly with everything Lawrence Stratton and I learned over the years that we prepared our book on how the law was lost. This account of the persecution of the Hammonds is the way government behaves when government has broken free of the rule of law.
I can attest with full confidence that the United States no longer has a rule of law. The USA is a lawless country. By that I do not mean what conservative Republicans mean, which is, if I understand them, that racial minorities violate law with something close to impunity.
What I mean is that only the mega-banks and the One Percent have legal protection, and that is because these people control the government. For everyone else law is a weapon in the hands of the government to be used against the American people.
The fact that the shield of law no longer exists for American citizens is why, according to US Department of Justice statistics, only 4 percent of federal felonies ever go to trial. Almost the entirety of federal felonies are settled by coerced plea bargains that force defendants to admit to crimes that they did not commit in order to avoid “expanded indictments” that, if presented to the typical stupid, trusting, gullible American “jury of their peers,” would lock them away for hundreds of years.
American justice is a joke. It does not exist. You can see this in the American prison population. “Freedom and Democracy” America not only has the largest percentage of its population in prison thanany country on the planet, but also the largest number of prisoners.
If you consider that “authoritarian” China has four times the population of the United States but fewer prisoners, you understand that “authoritarian” China has a more protective rule of law than the United States.
Compared to “freedom and democracy America,” Russia has hardly anyone in prison. Yet, Washington and its media whores have defined the President of Russia as “the new Hitler.”
The only thing we can conclude from the facts is that the United States Government and those ignorant fools who worship it are evil incarnate.
Out of evil comes dictatorship. The White House Fool, at best a two-bit punk, has decided that he doesn’t like the Second Amendment to the US Constitution any more than he likes any of the other constitutional protections of US citizens. He is looking for dictatorial methods, that is, unlegislated executive orders, to overturn the Second Amendment. He has the corrupt US Department of Justice, a criminal organization, looking for ways for the dictator to overturn both Congressional legislation and Supreme Court rulings.
The media whores have fallen in line with the would-be dictator. All we hear is “gun violence.” If only Karl Marx were still with us. He would ridicule those who turn inanimate objects into purposeful actors. It is extraordinary that the American left-wing thinks that guns, not people, kill people.
The position of the “progressive left-wing” in the United States is perplexing. Here are Americans, immersed into a police state, as are the Hammonds, and the progressive left-wing wants to disarm the population.
Whatever this “progressive left-wing opposition” is, it has nothing in common with revolutionaries. The American left-wing is totally irrevelant, a defeated force that sold out and no longer represents the people or the truth.
Even more astonishing, judging by comments on RT’s report on the situation and the readers comments, all RT and American blacks want to know is where is the National Guard in Oregon? Why isn’t it called out against the White militia protests as it was called out against the Black Ferguson protests?https://www.rt.com/usa/327809-bundy-militia-oregon-reaction/
If protesting the murder of a young black American by Ferguson police is not legitimate and the protesters are “terrorists,” why aren’t the Oregon protestors terrorists for trying to protect jailbirds from their “lawful sentence”? This is the wrong question.
It really is discouraging that the American black community is unable to understand that if any American can be dispossessed, all Americans can be dispossessed.
It is also discouraging that RT decided to play the race card instead of comprehending that law is no longer a shield of the American people but is a weapon in the hands of Washington.
Why doesn’t RT at least listen to the President of Russia, who states repeatedly that America and the West are lawless.
"Government is the Probem" Guns will be the only solution.
When will people just start laughing in the audience when this shitskin starts talking?
Just start laughing.