Poll history: Majority oppose 'assault weapons' ban
CBS/NYT survey bad news for gun-grabbers
A CBS/NYT poll conducted Dec. 4 through Dec. 8 found just 44 percent of Americans favor a ban on so-called “assault weapons.” (Photo: NRA)
Douglas Ernst
Dec 11 2015
There’s a reason President Obama must resort to executive orders on gun control: The American people don’t want it.
Americans gave CBS/New York Times pollsters one for their record books this week. The majority of survey respondents said for the first time in 20 years that they do not favor a nationwide ban on so-called “assault weapons.”
Fifty percent of those asked, “Do you favor or oppose a nationwide ban on assault weapons?” rejected calls for such a measure; 44 percent said they were in favor of a ban, and six percent said they did not know.
“The big shift is that Americans have finally begun to tire of the ‘we need to ban scary looking weapons that don’t differ much from other weapons’ demagoguery that Democrats have been pushing for the last few years,” the website HotAir responded Friday. “One might have thought that the 2014 elections would have provided some clue, but perhaps a poll in the New York Times will have a little more impact.”
“Assault weapon” is essentially a meaningless term since any weapon can be used in an assault. The response is significant, however, because pollsters regularly use the term in ways that can apply to almost any rifle or handgun.
The results also come just two days after White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said Obama was preparing executive orders to close the so-called “gun show loophole.”
“Only 44 percent of Americans favor a ban on assault weapons, 19 percentage points lower than after the mass shooting in Tucson in 2011. And while 51 percent favor stricter gun control in general, that is down from 58 percent in October,” the newspaper reported.
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It was less than two weeks ago that Obama made another pitch to the American people to toughen gun laws across the nation. The president used the Dec. 2 Islamic terror attacks in San Bernardino, California, as the catalyst for a speech on background checks.
“The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world. And there are some steps we could take not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don’t happen as frequently: common-sense gun safety laws, stronger background checks,” Obama said during an interview with CBS Dec. 2.
Islamic radicals Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, killed 14 and wounded 21 during their attack on the Inland Regional Center, which serves those with developmental disabilities and their families. The two were killed in a shootout with cops hours later.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/poll-history-majority-oppose-assault-weapons-ban/
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XOs are for Feral Personel ONLY:
Stated within a written document received September 17, 1997, from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, Office of the Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Richard L. Shiffin, in response to a FOIA, was the following:
"A fact that is frequently overlooked is that Executive orders and proclamations of the President normally have no direct effect upon private persons or their property, and instead, normally constitute only directives or instructions to officers or employees of the Federal Government.
The exception is those cases in which the President is expressly authorized or required by laws enacted by the Congress to issue an Executive order or proclamation dealing with the legal rights or obligations of members of the public. Such as issuance of Selective Service Regulations, establishment of boards to investigate certain labor disputes, and establishment of quotas or fees with respect to certain imports into this country."
You say that these rogue executive orders and proclamations have no direct effect or jurisdiction on the private person? The US Supreme Court has ruled many times that the highways are OPEN by a matter of RIGHT to the traveling public, yet all the road pirates, aka Blue Gang members continue to use force and violence against the traveling public every second of every day across this giant slave plantation we call a country. AS Killery stated, "What difference does it make?" The main focus is to protect the corporation, their pay check and generate revenue by any means possible under the color of law.
"When armed force compels compliance with mythical laws and money is demanded for its violation, power will corrupt and greed will never be satisfied." Richard L Koenig
Those who saw the shooting in San Bernardino said the 3 wore military uniforms like Blackwater mercenaries and were Causasians, not muslims. More Obama lies as usual.
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