Americans' Positive Perception Of NRA Soars As Obama Escalates Gun-Control Agenda
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
When pollsters asked people three decades ago how they felt about the National Rifle Association, 27% said they strongly supported the gun lobby. By last month, that share had grown 38%, an 11-point increase. Meanwhile, the share that didn’t side with the NRA declined.
By an 8-point, registered voters in the Journal/NBC survey last month said they were more concerned that the government would go too far in restricting gun rights than that it fail to do enough to regulate access to firearms. When adults were asked the same question in 1995, the greater fear was that access to firearms was too widespread.
In July polling, the Journal/NBC survey found that 43% of the public had a positive image of the NRA and 32% a negative one—a more favorable view than the public held of the Supreme Court or either political party. By a 15-point margin, political independents, also viewed the NRA more positively than negatively.
– From the Wall Street Journal article: Rising Support for NRA Stymies Obama
Love guns or hate guns, one thing is becoming perfectly clear. The American public’s perception of guns and the NRA is moving in the exact opposite direction of Barack Obama’s message and agenda.
To hear Obama speak, you’d think the NRA is simply using boatloads of money and propaganda to thwart the impassioned gun control desires of the American public. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. First, let’s take a look at some powerful charts from the Wall Street Journal.
As you can clearly see, the numbers regarding NRA support have virtually flipped over the past thirty years. This is also consistent with a recent ABC News poll which showed for the first time that a majority of American are against an assault weapons ban. From the post, A Majority of Americans Oppose “Assault Weapons Ban” – Highest Number on Record:
A majority of Americans oppose banning assault weapons for the first time in more than 20 years of ABC News/Washington Post polls, with the public expressing vast doubt that the authorities can prevent “lone wolf” terrorist attacks and a substantial sense that armed citizens can help.
Indeed, while the division is a close one, Americans by 47-42 percent think that encouraging more people to carry guns legally is a better response to terrorism than enacting stricter gun control laws. Divisions across groups are vast, underscoring the nation’s gulf on gun issues.
Now here’s another chart from the same Wall Street Journal article, which is even more compelling.
Although Democrats hate the NRA (the same group that supports Hillary for President despite admitting she’s untrustworthy), Independents show strong support. Why is this important? Because according to a recent Gallup poll, a record 43% of Americans identify as Independents.
From Gallup:
PRINCETON, N.J. — An average 43% of Americans identified politically as independents in 2014, establishing a new high in Gallup telephone poll trends back to 1988. In terms of national identification with the two major parties, Democrats continued to hold a modest edge over Republicans, 30% to 26%.
Since 2008, the percentage of political independents — those who identify as such before their leanings to the two major parties are taken into account — has steadily climbed from 35% to the current 43%, exceeding 40% each of the last four years. Prior to 2011, the high in independent identification was 39% in 1995 and 1999.
The recent rise in political independence has come at the expense of both parties, but more among Democrats than among Republicans. Over the last six years, Democratic identification has fallen from 36% — the highest in the last 25 years — to 30%. Meanwhile, Republican identification is down from 28% in 2008 to 26% last year.
Now here’s the chart. There’s a well defined bull market in Independent-identifying Americans:
Finally, let’s end this post with some excerpts from the Wall Street Journal article from which the previously highlighted charts were pulled:
When pollsters asked people three decades ago how they felt about the National Rifle Association, 27% said they strongly supported the gun lobby. By last month, that share had grown 38%, an 11-point increase. Meanwhile, the share that didn’t side with the NRA declined.
That is just one measure of the challenge that has forced President Barack Obama to sidestep Congress and put in place new gun regulations through executive action. Mr. Obama knows through hard experience that lawmakers have little appetite for passing tougher gun laws. Polling shows that skepticism is rooted among the broader public, as well.
So there you go. King Obama sees political trends he doesn’t like, knows that Congress can’t do anything about it because the public doesn’t want it to, so he does it by himself by executive decree.
As I noted on Twitter the other day:
Yeah, then this will flip once Trump is elected, and Obama supporters will suddenly discover the Constitution: pic.twitter.com/O6x0U8cA0B
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) January 6, 2016
Now back to the WSJ:
By an 8-point, registered voters in the Journal/NBC survey last month said they were more concerned that the government would go too far in restricting gun rights than that it fail to do enough to regulate access to firearms. When adults were asked the same question in 1995, the greater fear was that access to firearms was too widespread.
But as Mr. Obama seeks any small patch of common ground, one of the most powerful forces he must deal with is skepticism of any new laws—even the widely backed expansion of background checks. A majority in Gallup polling said background checks would have little or no effect in reducing mass shootings. And a majority believed the country would be safer if more people carried concealed weapons—a finding in tune with the NRA’s contention that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.’’
While support for the NRA skews Republican, it is not exclusively Republican. Some 41% of political independents rate themselves as highly supportive of the gun lobby, more than twice the share that doesn’t support the group, December’s Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey found.
In July polling, the Journal/NBC survey found that 43% of the public had a positive image of the NRA and 32% a negative one—a more favorable view than the public held of the Supreme Court or either political party. By a 15-point margin, political independents, also viewed the NRA more positively than negatively.
“The gun lobby may be holding Congress hostage right now, but they cannot hold America hostage,’’ Mr. Obama said in announcing his new gun regulations. But in going up against the NRA, he is working against a force that is not only powerful but popular among many in the country.
Substitute “the American public” for “the gun lobby,” and you’ll find out what’s really irking King Barry.
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With Obama acting more like a dictator and the Congress sitting on their hands, many are finally realizing why the 2nd is around.
And the Bushwhacker acting the dictator before him.
We're being tag-teamed.
If we charged both W and Obama witjh treason...could we get bipartisan support for that?
I would support it, they failed to uholds their oath of office, which was to support, protect and defend the Constitution.
Obama Has Always Wanted Your Guns
Obummer wants the guns and has 'given' us ObummerCare and likely the TPP. The Bushwhacker 'gave' us 9/11, perpetual war and the Patriot Act. In a just world they'd both be in chains with thousands of collaborators.
I’ll excuse myself from the positive perception of anything.
0bama and Boehner should form a clown-duo “The Weeping Pussies”. ;-)
Looney
"The Vagina Waaahnologues"
Love or hate guns, one thing everyone should be aware of is,
"DEMOCIDE" - murdered by your own government.
262,000,000 people were murdered by their own government last century.
This does NOT include genocide or war!
Helen Keller could see what's coming again.
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
Buy.Guns.Now
Barry is just a gay puppet. The CFR and free masons want your guns. ignore the child in the half-white house and find a way to rid the world of the money-power.
The money-power is rendred inert once it no longer has your consent. Withdrawal of consent however, be pretty.
With everything else going on in the world, it's been a while since I saw/read any good Freemason conspiracy shit. With all the other evil it's seems a Mason's are the JV team.... Wait, just a second someone's at the door......
Yeah, it can be a bummer, but that's how I read it.
"Always merry and bright." -- Henry Miller
Gun salesman of the Century!
Mexican cartels say a Novia on his behalf daily.
Poll: know someone who bought their first gun in the last 4 years up vote.
Don't know anyone- downvote.
I personally know several. Libs and a few older suburban folks. I just bought more. Even my 8 year old got a .22 single shot for Christmas, I had to tell him to be careful who he told or some kids parents might freak out..... What a fuckin world!!
For someone who is supposedly "the smartest man in any room" he seems like kind of a slow learner.
Yes, according to this poll 58% are still Republicrats so we still have work to do.
I am dumbfounded that there is still 62% that cannot see tyranny and dictatorship staring them right in their eyes...
Prepare accordingly.
http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Tyrant
Why would you need guns when you can defend yourself by keeping an armlenght distance from everybody....
You forgot to add:
-- Henriette Reger
Sheep don't want anyone to be armed because responsibility and the prospect of confrontation scares them. Once a person comes to the conclusion that taking charge of their own, and their family's, safety is a good idea, all of a sudden those "high capacity assault weapons" start making a whole lot of sense.
The NRA has been very quiet I did not know they still exsited. I was hoping they would use more influence to stop or at least slow down this dictator.
You are obviously not an NRA member. Why don't you join us instead of just 'hoping' we do something about 'this dictator'
Gun Owners of America has never compromised on the 2nd where the NRA plays politics and compromises.......you can't compromise with evil.......when will people learn that?
Another GOA member here, agreed that GOA is the better org. Also, look for your state equivalent.
Any one who is an NRA member should realize, the absolute worse thing that could ever happen to the NRA is that the right to bear arms be affirmed as an unconditional right decisively.
Dear shithead pumpkin:
If you do not continually defend your God Given Rights you will be destroyed.
--Arnold
I think he meant that the NRA seems to be in the for-profit business of caving in these days; especially after Charlton Heston said what None Dare.
An illustration. I understand that one of Regan's nominees for Drug Czar wanted to legalize or reschedule marijuana and make cocaine 'expensive and hard to get'. What happened? None other than NORML, the 'National Organization for Marijuana Legalization' exposed him as a cocaine user. Why would they of all people do that? Why not at least wait until Your 'goal' was met,? Because if it was legal, if the fight was won; their funding stream would dry up. Read this in '94 or '95, couldn't find a link in 5 minutes so gave up.
Not saying this Is what is happening, just tossing it out there. Betrayal wears many faces.
This is a good point actually. I've seen the same thing in the pro-life movement; they don't actually want the problem to go away because it would mean everyone having to give up their jobs, as the work would be done. Therefore, the strategy is to make these impassioned speeches and votes when they know they aren't going to win, to make it appear like they did something. At some point you have to start demanding actual progress, and fire those who aren't bringing it.
Well yeah...it would be the end of the NRA, because there would be no argument against the RTBA
"Eternal Vigilance" is required.
Lots of vigilance at my local gun show today. Lots of money changing hands. Lots of black rifles being sold. I picked up a Glock 40 10mm longslide, Sig 220 in 10mm and my first CZ P-01. Lots of ammo being sold and one guy had a table full of full auto for sale. At least 10 HKs, a M2HB .50 cal and a mini Uzi. Didn't see the cocksuckers from the ATF at their usual spot. I'm sure they were using the local glory hole.
no SD, that's: "an armalite distance away"
let him go out and buy his own gun.
Actually, this whole thing is more about building up Obama as a scary monster than taking your guns. They are setting up the villian who will take the fall when the hero, Vladimir Putin, makes his move.
Globalist Prophecy Watch: Update 3 – Is Vladimir Putin the Jewish Messiah? The linked article is complete now, and it leaves little doubt.Seriously?
Yes, seriously. The case made by the article is fact-based. Everything it talks about is already floating around out there. You just have to gather it all together and connect the dots. Do you think all the insanity that's going on in the world right now is just an accident? The globalists are staging the whole thing, and there is a religious aspect to it that cannot be ignored.
Not very good, but a start.
http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal/yardstick/pr3.html
I see your Bush and Obama and I raise you 2 Clintons!
........ ummmmmmm aren't they all from the same gene "pool" ?? Yee haw stick it to grandma and all that....... no?
No they are progressive just like Bubba
Failure to uphold ones Oath of Office is PERJURY, a Class one felony and therefore a high crime.
The problem is most of the Congress is also guilty of multiple counts of the same crime. It's no wonder that impeachment is off-the-table, they wouldn't be able to get a quorum!
I liked Krieger's line about how the liberals will discover the constitution once Trump is elected.
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And watch support for the NRA go much higher if Muslims pull a stunt in America like they did on New Year's Eve in Europe.
from an earlier post
Please tell me wtf "NOMI" means?
possible.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Nomi+Rolled
The million or so refugees were guided to Europe via ?Nato or CIA, I can't recall that bit of evidence? sources for tweets.
If you know much about Arabic societies, that problem with New Year's eve molestations was predictable, it is a problem within the Arabic societies themselves.
Just another way of guiding political opinion, and they aren't doing it for your benefit.
ZATO