A new NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll released Wednesday shows an “alarming disregard by Democrats for the Second Amendment,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.
The poll, conducted May 15-18, 2023, revealed that “88 percent of Democrats think reining in gun violence is more important than protecting gun rights…
…while 67 percent of Republicans say protecting gun rights is more important,” according to a report in The Hill.
“This is a stunning revelation,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “While we have always advocated for safer communities and have supported citizen initiatives aimed at locking up criminals, it is appalling that such an overwhelming percentage of Democrats are so willing to throw the Second Amendment under a bus to achieve some false sense of security.”
More than 25 years ago, Gottlieb championed both “Three Strikes” and “Hard Time for Armed Crime” initiatives, which received massive public support in Washington State and then became popular nationwide.
“The idea of putting violent, repeat offenders in prison has always made more sense than penalizing law-abiding citizens who only want to exercise their constitutional rights,” he observed. “The notion that you are somehow going to discourage criminals by disarming their intended victims isn’t just foolish, it’s downright crazy.
“Constitutional rights are not something you vote on,” Gottlieb continued, “nor do you casually give them up in hopes of creating some Utopian fantasy. If criminals know people do not have the means to fight back, they will exploit the situation. That’s why we fight so hard, day after day, to protect the right that makes it possible for us to protect our families, homes and communities.”
Gottlieb said he is equally disappointed that many Independents and even some Republican poll respondents were also willing to prioritize controlling crime over protecting individual rights.
“The right to keep and bear arms is enshrined in our Bill of Rights and most state constitutions for a reason,” Gottlieb noted. “If we don’t protect all of our rights vigorously, pretty soon we will end up with none of them.”
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
The average Democrat is a dictator wannabe or supporter of other Democrat dictator wannabes.
demoncrats, a.k.a. leftists/progressives do not care about individual rights. they only care about state’s rights over the citizen. they are authoritarian at best and would be totalitarian if that pesky thing called the Constitution and Bill of Rights didn’t hamper them. they are for killing babies but not convicted murderers. they categorize people into groups to pit one group against another. they are for open borders even when they know that they take away jobs from lower income people (minorities, the ones they say they support). they don’t care about the 100’s of thousands of Americans killed by drug overdoses… Read more »
With all the things the Democrats are pushing, I don’t see how the country won’t descend into Civil War within the next 18 months. Good news is they won’t be around after.
Your Democrat neighbor is a traitor
The divorce is eminent
The classical liberal was someone that was primarily concerned with human rights. The modern American liberal is something else entirely.
No, actually the average Democrat would gladly give up some or all of their rights, in exchange for a government stipend, or an abortion. Especially in the Black community where their sons and daughters are perpetrating the majority of the crime, and where “stop-n-frisk” along with “broken glass” policing would result in many of them being incarcerated. We all saw what happens when the police are defunded and not allowed to do their jobs, while prosecutors refuse to prosecute criminals? We’re left to defend ourselves, and our biggest fight will be with those same prosecutors. If you arm yourself, and… Read more »
Their methodology was extremely leading and geared to make their results this way based on their questions. Bear in mind the sample size was just under 1,300 respondents contacted. Their first admission of biased polling was defining and separating states based on an A and B, or less, rating from the Giffords Law Center scorecard without further breaking down the demographics of the respondents from said A/B, or less, states. One can easily skew the poll to read that Montana supports stricter gun control over gun rights simply by polling campus grounds or blue concentrations found in the cities. But… Read more »
DEMOCRATS: There is NO God but the State.
All power to the State!
Sound familiar?
Demoncrats are power hungry liars!