New Rasmussen Poll, 4/13/16

[Librarian]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/gun_control/why_are_americans_buying_so_many_guns

Why Are Americans Buying So Many Guns?

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that nearly one-out-of-four Americans (23%) say they or someone in their immediate family has bought a gun in the past year. Seventy percent (70%) have not, but six percent (6%) aren’t sure.

h/t TTAG

[wjc]

Um, lack of trust in their government...and other organizations.

[Noble Cause]

Apparently most people come to the correct conclusion:

Just 22% of voters would feel safer living in a neighborhood where nobody was
allowed to own a gun over one where they could have a gun for their own protection.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) would feel safer in a neighborhood
where guns are allowed.

Another eye opener from the report:

Eighty-one percent (81%) of all Americans oppose a plan in their community
like one being considered in several major cities that would pay criminals up
to $1,000 a month not to kill someone with a gun.

This entire concept is so idiotic, it actually hurts my brain just to think about it.
So about 19% of the population are either insane, or incapable of rational thought.


Noble

[Ripon83]

Don't Rass.polls tend to lean our way?

[Milsurp Collector]

I liked this part:

A closer look finds that 64% of Democrats believe it is too easy to buy a gun in the United States, but only 28% of Republicans and 36% of those not affiliated with either major political party agree. Still, 21% of Democrats say they or someone in their immediate family has bought a gun in the past year, compared to 29% of Republicans and 20% of unaffiliateds.

So only 21% of Democrats or their immediate family members actually bought a gun in the past year, yet 64% of Democrats believe it is too easy to buy a gun. Why do 64% of Democrats believe it is too easy to buy a gun when only 21% of them bought a gun in the past year? How do they know how "easy" it is if they haven't done it recently - or ever? I would guess most of those 64% of Democrats who think it is too easy to buy a gun have never actually bought a gun, or have so much as stepped foot in a gun store or gun show.

Their belief is not based on actual experience, but from politicians, gun control advocates, and the media telling them it is "too easy" to buy a gun in the US, and they just accept it without question and incorporate it into their belief system.

[Noble Cause]

I liked this part:



So only 21% of Democrats or their immediate family members actually bought a gun in the past year, yet 64% of Democrats believe it is too easy to buy a gun. Why do 64% of Democrats believe it is too easy to buy a gun when only 21% of them bought a gun in the past year? How do they know how "easy" it is if they haven't done it recently - or ever? I would guess most of those 64% of Democrats who think it is too easy to buy a gun have never actually bought a gun, or have so much as stepped foot in a gun store or gun show.

Their belief is not based on actual experience, but from politicians, gun control advocates, and the media telling them it is "too easy" to buy a gun in the US, and they just accept it without question and incorporate it into their belief system.

I tend to agree with your assessment.

Democrats / Liberals tend to trust a wide range of the agenda driven, anti gun
media, whereas conservatives are more skeptical, and trust a much smaller range.

Interestingly, The Wall Street Journal is the one media outlet trusted by both
Liberals and Conservatives: (Source: Pew Research Center)




Noble

[Oxnard_Montalvo]

[Oxnard_Montalvo]

I tend to agree with your assessment.

Democrats / Liberals tend to trust a wide range of the agenda driven, anti gun
media, whereas conservatives are more skeptical, and trust a much smaller range.

Interestingly, The Wall Street Journal is the one media outlet trusted by both
Liberals and Conservatives: (Source: Pew Research Center)




Noble

The most disturbing thing on the chart is that the liberals/progressives trust Al Jazierra America as much as their Daily Kos, that's sad yet telling.

[Epaphroditus]

'Old timers' are quite likely uninformed on the current laws and fondly recall the bygone halcyon days of purchasing from the Sears catalog.

When my great grandfather decided to give all his stuff away a few days before he died (at 105 years) none of his kids or grandkids even questioned the need to do anything about transferring ownership of several handguns ... I had to remind them of GCA (many of my kin were in from out of state). Most were utterly incredulous that they were about to commit federal felonies. There were at least two lawyers and a judge in the group ...

[Oxnard_Montalvo]

'Old timers' are quite likely uninformed on the current laws and fondly recall the bygone halcyon days of purchasing from the Sears catalog.

When my great grandfather decided to give all his stuff away a few days before he died (at 105 years) none of his kids or grandkids even questioned the need to do anything about transferring ownership of several handguns ... I had to remind them of GCA (many of my kin were in from out of state). Most were utterly incredulous that they were about to commit federal felonies. There were at least two lawyers and a judge in the group ...

"Most were utterly incredulous that they were about to commit federal felonies. There were at least two lawyers and a judge in the group ..."

That's what happens when society judges how well any particular congress does by 'grading' it by volume of legislation and NOT by the quality of the legislation. What that eventually does is burden society to the point where you are virtually assured of violating several local, state and federal laws by just going about your normal daily routine, let alone actually doing stuff intentionally to violate laws. This was pointed out recently in the LA Times story here:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0408-winkler-gavin-newsom-gun-initiative-20160408-story.html

"As more gun laws that gun owners believe are wrong or foolish have been adopted, noncompliance has become a significant problem."

'Noncompliance' is both intentional AND non intentional since the government has become SO complex it's almost certain that there are few, if any, that know ALL of the applicable laws even for our little corner of the legal world (firearms) and therefore it's unlikely that the average LEO would be 'up to speed' on current firearm law.

[Cokebottle]

Um, lack of trust in their government...and other organizations.

Indirectly.

I have no fantasies about armed rebellion or standing up to the police/military either on my own or with a militia... I don't have the budget or the ability to even be competitive in that battle with my 100 year old technology.

But I just bought a Kimber Raptor a year before I had planned.
I've been wanting one for years and putting it off because I just couldn't (still can't) justify $1500 for a safe queen.

But now with the hot mess that the roster has become, Kimber has made production changes and I was told were informed that their 1911 lines need to be resubmitted for testing to be relisted for 2017.

Yep... We've got 8 months left to build our Kimber collections.

[Cokebottle]

'Noncompliance' is both intentional AND non intentional since the government has become SO complex it's almost certain that there are few, if any, that know ALL of the applicable laws even for our little corner of the legal world (firearms) and therefore it's unlikely that the average LEO would be 'up to speed' on current firearm law.

And even changes in status of a product.

The FSC556 was originally classified and marketed only as a muzzle break and not as a flash hider.
Later an opinion came out that it is indeed a flash hider and it is marketed as such.

How many of those are still installed on "featureless" builds?

I bought one... and it is going to waste on my AR22, while a birdcage comp hangs on my featureless.
When I GTFO of California, those comps are getting swapped and the MMG is going in the dumpster.