{"id":24104,"date":"2016-10-31T11:54:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T15:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24104"},"modified":"2016-10-31T11:54:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T15:54:21","slug":"new-poll-support-for-assault-weapons-ban-drops-to-record-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24104\/new-poll-support-for-assault-weapons-ban-drops-to-record-low\/","title":{"rendered":"New Poll: Support for “Assault Weapons” Ban Drops to Record Low"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our latest Liberty Update<\/a>, we highlight an extremely encouraging new Gallup poll showing that public support for our nation’s police forces jumped by a record amount over the past year.<\/p>\n

On a different but not entirely unrelated issue, there’s similarly welcome news in the form of another Gallup release<\/a> entitled “In U.S., Support for Assault Weapons Ban At Record Low.” \u00a0Gallup began polling on the issue 20 years ago, and opposition has skyrocketed from 42% to today’s 61%, while support for a so-called “assault weapons” ban has plummeted from 57% to today’s 36%:<\/p>\n

Assault rifles have been a contentious issue in American life for decades. \u00a0Two years after President Bill Clinton signed a federal assault weapons ban in 1994, Gallup found that a solid majority of Americans favored such a ban. \u00a0By the time the 10-year ban expired in 2004, Americans were evenly divided. \u00a0And by 2011, public opinion had tilted against the assault weapons ban, with 53% opposed and 43% in favor. \u00a0In Gallup’s 2016 crime poll, conducted Oct. 5-9, opposition now exceeds support by 25 percentage points, 61% to 36%.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Equally encouraging in today’s hyperpartisan atmosphere is the fact that opposition to an “assault weapons” ban is bipartisan, as well as shared by both gun owners and non-owners.<\/p>\n

It’s understandable in today’s political and pop culture atmosphere to believe that the country, or the world more broadly, are descending to hell in a handbasket. \u00a0While that may be true regarding some of our political leadership and celebrity influences, the good news is that the resilient American public continues to show a welcome degree of better judgment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our latest Liberty Update, we highlight an extremely encouraging new Gallup poll showing that public support for our nation’s police forces jumped by a record amount over the past year. On a different but not entirely unrelated issue, there’s similarly welcome news in the form of another Gallup release entitled “In U.S., Support for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4926,842,2320,2645,220],"class_list":["post-24104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-assault-weapons","tag-gallup","tag-gun-control","tag-guns","tag-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24105,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24104\/revisions\/24105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}