Anti-Gun Polls Don’t Reflect Reality
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While we take solace in the fact that the Second Amendment is in place to prevent gun rights from being swept away by a majority vote, we should also find comfort in the fact that the victory of so many pro-gun candidates proves anti-gun polling may not be as accurate as it claims to be.
In other words, polls showing high support for this gun control scheme and that gun control scheme—be they “universal” background checks, gun storage laws or “assault weapons” bans—likely don’t accurately depict the mood of the American people, or Donald Trump would not be president right now. After all, Hillary Clinton ran on a gun control platform, promising everything from “universal” background checks to “high capacity” magazine bans and new regulations on Federal Firearms License holders. She even pledged to circumvent Congress and achieve her gun controls via executive orders, yet she lost on Election Day.
But recent polls would have us believe that Americans have done an about-face and are longing for more gun control less than a year after Clinton’s defeat.
For example, a recent poll conducted by POLITICO/Morning Consult claims high support for numerous gun controls that were part of Clinton’s platform.
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