Poll: Americans want Senate to drop gun control

by Chad D. Baus

If an alien being landed on earth, knowing nothing of our politics, and read the newspaper or watched a news broadcast, it'd be absolutely convinced that 90% of Americans are overwhelmingly demanding passage of gun control legislation that was proposed, debated and voted down in the United States Senate last spring.

Even before the gavel had dropped on the first vote to kill the bill, anti-gun rights forces in the Senate had begun to spread hopeful rumors that the bill would live to see another day, and their media sycophants are incessant in propping up that notion to this day.

That's why they continue to repeat out-dated, debunked polling information about Americans' feelings on the subject of gun control, and why you've never heard the media mention a much more recent national survey conducted by Reason-Rupe.

From the Reason.com website:

President Barack Obama has vowed to keep pushing for new gun control measures and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the failed gun vote in the Senate was "just the beginning." However, the latest Reason-Rupe national poll finds just 33 percent of Americans feel the "Senate should debate and vote on gun control legislation again," while 62 percent want the Senate to "move on to other issues."

The Reason-Rupe numbers coincide with other recent polls, including a USAToday poll showing that support for the passage of ANY new gun control law is between 45-49%, and a Gallup poll which showed that only 4% of the population thinks gun control is actually an important issue.

So the next time you hear that 90% line, remember that the only thing that number represents is what the anti-gun rights minority wish were true.

Chad D. Baus is the Buckeye Firearms Association Vice Chairman.