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A Rasmussen poll on the Second Amendment released March 5 had some good news and some bad news. Unfortunately, it was not surprising news for veteran gun rights activists.
The poll revealed that while 92% of identified Republicans who responded say the U.S. Constitution affirms an individual right to own a gun under the Second Amendment, only 64% of those who said they were Democrats believe that. They were even behind the 71 percent of respondents who claimed no political affiliation, while supporting individual gun rights..
Astonishingly, even after the Supreme Court ruled last June 26 in the case of District of Columbia v. Dick Anthony Heller, 14 % of those answering the poll do not believe there is a constitutional right to own a gun. It would be nice to know where each of these fools live, so they could be mailed a map showing them routes out of the United States.
Eleven percent of the respondents aren’t sure about the right, according to the Rasmussen poll. Here is a sure-fire way to convince them. Open a halfway house in their neighborhoods for convicted sex offenders or drug addicts. These “uncertain” people will soon be stacked three deep at the nearest gun shop sales counter, with their checkbooks open.
In my most recent book with Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation called These Dogs Don’t Hunt: The Democrats’ War on Guns, we demonstrate why the Rasmussen poll contained no surprises. For some reason, far too many Democrats stubbornly resist the notion that there are ten amendments in the Bill of Rights, and that rights of “the people” are held by individuals, not state governments. The Bill of Rights is an all-or-nothing proposition, not a menu.
Most gun control fanatics consider themselves “progressives,” but in actuality, they promote repression of the most basic of fundamental rights, that of self-preservation. They don’t care for guns, and really don’t want people to have them.
Witness the District of Columbia municipal government. Since the high court ruled last year that the District’s handgun ban was unconstitutional, city leaders have begrudgingly had to formulate a law that allows citizens to once again legally arm themselves in their homes for personal protection. However, the authorities have made that just as difficult as possible, leading to this week’s lawsuit against the District by the Second Amendment Foundation and three Washington, D.C residents. My colleague, Mike Stollenwerk, writes about it here.
Progressives typically worry about the rights of guys like Ronald Keith Matthews, a crackhead who gunned down King County (WA) Deputy Richard Herzog in 2002, or they go after the rights of law-abiding gun owners after a killer with an illegally-carried pistol fatally shoots a minister during a church service.
Matthews was under Department of Corrections supervision (see this column), having been released from prison 11 days before he murdered Herzog with the lawman’s own gun. Terry Joe Sedlacek, the suspect in the killing of Pastor Fred Winters in Troy, Illinois on March 8 did not have a required Illinois Firearm Owners Identification Card, so he should not have had that .45 he used to shoot the minister.
If 36% of Democrats could figure out that law-abiding Americans have an individual right to own guns, and that people who kill cops and preachers shouldn’t have any rights…now that would be progress.
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For more info: District of Columbia v. Dick Anthony Heller
In addition to Mike Stollenwerk's current column, check out what my colleague Paul Valone has to say here.
Check out other Gun Rights Examiners:
- Austin: Gun control, Eric Holder, and racism
- Charlotte: Baiting liberals for fun and profit!
- Cleveland: Banning competition firearms
- DC: Wall Street Journal lapses into newspeak when it comes to guns
- Denver: Keep them guessing
- Los Angeles: John Longenecker interviews Oklahoma Senator Randy Brogdon on State Sovereignty, Guns Rights, and more
- Minneapolis: The first thing you do is drag him inside
- National: Tyranny is counting on ignorance
- Seattle: Prison releases, police cutbacks pose a danger to citizens
- St. Louis: When the order of protection . . . provides none
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