There aren’t many rights that democrats don’t want to take away from the people but none more so than the right to keep and bear arms. In a major tactical blunder, the democrat-sponsored race riots that have been destroying cities across the country as well as the democrat-mandated coronavirus lockdowns have made people less likely to support gun control. They really took their eyes off the prize on this one. In their effort to make everyone financially dependent upon the government and sow discord, they’ve actually strengthened support for gun ownership.
When the coronavirus lockdowns first hit, people hit the gun stores in record numbers, buying up every firearm they could find. When the George Floyd “peaceful” race riots, encouraged by democrats, started those gun buying records were broken. People suddenly realized that the government was not going to protect them and so they had the choice of being a victim or taking their security into their own hands. Many chose to survive.
A new Rasmussen poll shows that support for gun control has dropped significantly since last year. In 2019 64% supported stricter gun control laws but this year that number is down to 52%, a drop of 12 points. That’s not insignificant.
An even more telling number is that 47% of people reported being gun owners or living in a home with someone who owns guns. Now if you put that 47% of gun owners against the 52% who still want more gun control it shows that the people begging for new gun laws are not gun owners.
This busts a couple of popular liberal narratives: 1) that very few households have firearms (some reports as low as 20%) and 2) that a majority of gun owners support stricter gun control (some reports as high as 90%).
The people don’t want gun control and gun owners definitely don’t support it.
The news gets worse for gun-hating democrats because they’ve also lost the young people they were counting on. The New York Times recently cried: What Happened to the Young Voters Focused on Guns?
…with the country swept up in protests over racial justice driven largely by young people, the youthful voices that propelled a movement just two years ago find themselves less squarely focused on issues around gun violence. Polls show that racial justice, the coronavirus pandemic and the related economic downturn far outpace guns as top issues of concern for young people.
But today, with a different youth-protest movement sweeping the country, millennials and young adults in Generation Z are more likely to explicitly name racial justice as their top political concern. A Fox News poll last month found that voters under 30 were three times as likely as those 45 and over to call race-related issues their No. 1 policy priority. Just three percent of the youngest voters named gun violence as their top concern.
Democrats have been working really hard to tank the economy and sow the seeds of racial resentment and division, but in doing so they solidified support for the 2nd Amendment. Again, this is not insignificant because they were planning on running on a heavy gun control platform up and down the ballot in November.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are anti-gun extremists who have promised to ban and confiscate firearms from law-abiding Americans. With gun ownership up, this is not a message that is going to resonate with voters. Many people who might have otherwise voted for these two clowns are going to go with the ticket that respects their rights and that’s Trump/Pence.
