For decades, gun control groups have worked to impose Second Amendment restrictions that do not reduce crime. They have used scare tactics, public relations campaigns, and rhetoric that doesn’t address the actual perpetrators of these tragedies. Americans are now realizing the ‘crime prevention” ruse, and it is failing.
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Anti-Gun Activists & Their Failing ‘Crime Prevention’ Ruse
Americans have witnessed what happens when they aren’t protected against criminals who don’t follow the law over the past two decades. A new poll has shown that law-abiding Americans are fed up with gun control groups’ schemes.
Laws Against Law-Abiding
The Trafalgar Group has released new data. It shows that more than 80% of Americans believe strict gun control has “no effect” on violent crime. This data includes some of the largest cities in the country. They even “make cities more dangerous” to law-abiding citizens. This is bad news for gun control organizations. The good news is that law-abiding Americans now recognize their rights.
Robert Cahaly conducted the survey, and noted that the results are not surprising.
“There seems to have been a growing consensus among urban dwellers that fewer police, releasing criminals, and failing to prosecute are making them feel less secure,” Cahaly stated. “They are frustrated that unlike many who live in rural or suburban areas, city residents don’t feel they have the right of protection due to gun restrictions that only harm law-abiding citizens,” Cahaly said.
These sentiments are what led to 40% of 2020’s record 21,000,000 gun buyers being first-time buyers. Similar trends can be seen for firearm purchases in 2021. The year ended with more than 18.5 million background checks. In the first six months of 2021, there were at least 3.2 millions first-time gun buyers.
Even more consequential for politicians pushing more gun restrictions is that only 10 percent of Independents believe gun control makes the current crime surge “better.” More than 30 percent of Democrats believe it, revealing a major voting constituency that was previously reliable is losing faith in the gun-control-as-a-solution narrative.
The Trafalgar poll is consistent with many national polls that show Americans’ desire for gun control at its lowest level in years.
Public Safety Whiplash
Americans’ abandonment for gun control is not a result of a vacuum. They have had many first-hand experiences in the past two years. They now believe the Second Amendment is crucial, even though they didn’t believe it before.
There were widespread concerns about safety in the neighborhood and the police departments became understaffed as a result. District attorneys released criminals. In the wake of George Floyd’s tragic death, violence in the community, rioting and looting were all common. In cities with strict gun control, calls for defunding the police reverberated. All this was a response by law-abiding Americans who purchased a gun to protect their family and personal safety.
The polling shows that Americans are fed up with elected officials who fail to push for gun control, rather than holding criminals accountable for their crimes. It is not surprising that the same politicians who cut funds for law enforcement and supported leniency against convicted criminals are now turning 180 degrees and refunding community safety budgets in an effort to forget.
Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Los Angelinos were informed by a press release that if they are victims of a crime, they should “cooperate” and “compliment.”
San Francisco’s Democratic Mayor London Breed had cut $120 million from the police budgets last year, only to reverse her decision. Two weeks ago, she declared that “it’s time that criminals who are destroying our cities reign–it is now that it is end.” She made this statement while requesting emergency funds for law enforcement from city supervisors.
Real Solutions Safer Communities
Gun control advocates have reaffirmed their calls for gun ownership restrictions that don’t reduce violent crime. However, the firearm industry has invested heavily in several proven Real Solutions(r). These are the results.
Industry efforts led to federal passage of Fix NICS Act with bipartisan backing. This dramatically increased the number of records submitted to FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, (NICS), and made the background check system more efficient. Operation Secure Store(r), a program that educates firearm retailers about how to better protect their inventory and reduce criminal smashing-and-grabbing break-ins, is called Operation Secure Store. These crimes have declined sharply according to data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), for the first half of 2021.
The firearm industry knows that more laws won’t make America or their communities safer. Criminals don’t obey the laws. Even though more Americans are aware of this, elected officials and gun control organizations still don’t get it.
Original story posted on NSSF.org
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