I'm gonna say it and I don't care what gun nuts think...

[Nanjing03]

177. Gun Control Is Dead

[Quote] In general, the public opposes sweeping bans on handguns. In the most recent Gallup Crime Poll, conducted last October, Americans opposed a law that would ban possession of handguns except by police and other authorized persons by 68% to 30%. [/Quote]


The figures "68% v. 38%" are what this administration has painted on the wall to remind them that many -- if not most of that 68% are gun owners and/or among the 10 million (and rising) concealed carry permit holders who are both Democrats and Republicans in 49 out of 50 states. Gun control was a chronic failure. This country will never go back to it in light of successful concealed carry reforms that swept this country.


Further, the administration and the Congress have a lot of time and money in years of research. According to the U.S. Department of Justice studies through their own National Institute of Justice /Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the FBI Uniform Crime Report, every year for the last two decades, there are fewer and declining violent crimes and fewer and declining gun accidents where law abiding citizens are allowed to keep and bear arms -- both in and out of the home. Essentially, according to NIJ/BJS and the FBI, more guns = less crime.