A new Gallup poll released this week shows that public support for gun control is at the lowest level since the poll was first conducted in 1959.

Support for gun control in previous Gallup polls which had been holding relatively steady in the low to mid 30% level during this decade dropped to 29% in the latest poll which was conducted in October of last year.

 

At the other end of the spectrum opposition to a handgun ban has increased from 53% in 1991 to 69% in the latest survey.

 

Other findings in the Gallup Crime survey show that Americans are now equally divided as to whether or not laws covering the sale of firearms should be made stricter, or not.  This is in stark contrast to the early 1990’s when public opinion was more than 2 to 1 in favor of stricter gun laws.

 

Overall more women than men favor stricter gun laws (56%-42%) and not surprisingly more Democrats than Republicans (66%-31%) would like to see tougher handgun laws take effect.

 

Liberals have made gun control a big issue for many years and now that Democrats have complete control over the executive and legislative branches of government for the first time since 1994 one would think that this would be a prime opportunity to enact more gun control legislation.  But apparently even Nancy Pelosi can see the handwriting on the wall and has chosen not to take on an issue that would garner little support even under her iron fist.

 

While this is good news for gun owners everywhere the media has once again chosen to ignore this story.  I googled the words “support for gun control fading” and there wasn’t a single mainstream media web site or source among the top ten results.  When I replaced that search with “Gallup Crime survey” only usatoday.com came up in the first ten results.  Even conservative leaning Fox News didn’t appear in the results.

 

The media has long had an anti-gun bias and the ignorance of this report is another example of how widespread that bias is. 

 

 

 

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