By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
A strong majority of American voters (58.1%) are more likely to “support a candidate for Congress who supports the 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms” than would vote (21.9%) against such a candidate, according to a new national survey by McLaughlin & Associates, done for the Second Amendment Foundation.
The survey, conducted among 1,000 likely voters across the country during the period of April 8-13 has a +/- 3.1 percentage point sampling error with a 95% level of confidence, pollster Jim McLaughlin said.
The poll results might be considered a political warning shot across the bow of anti-gun Capitol Hill Democrats currently pushing the far left gun control agenda.
McLaughlin’s poll also revealed overwhelming support for the Second Amendment.
The biggest red flag for anti-gunners in the McLaughlin survey is the overwhelmingly positive support for the Second Amendment. The McLaughlin survey revealed 73.4 percent of Americans agree that “There is a reason why the Founders made the right to bear arms, the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution right after the 1st Amendment. The Founders understood the importance of law-abiding citizens’ right to legally own firearms for things like hunting, sport and personal protection and the 2nd Amendment is one of our most important and cherished civil rights…”
A whopping 72.6 percent support the Second Amendment, while 20.9 percent oppose it, the survey noted.
SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb issued a statement early Thursday that contained a stern suggestion: “Based on these survey results, anti-gunners, including Joe Biden, should cool their zeal for passing new legislation.”
For the past month, SAF and its sister organization, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, have been conducting national television advertising campaigns warning gun owners what was coming from the Biden administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress.
The McLaughlin survey also found the same strong support for debating gun control through the traditional democratic process rather than by executive fiat. By a 58.1 percent margin, Americans want proposed gun policies to go through the process, while 31 percent support the idea of adopting gun control by presidential executive order “without any input from Congress.”
“As we’ve been saying for years,” Gottlieb observed, “gun control extremists have been completely wrong in their desire erase the Second Amendment and turn a right to bear arms into a heavily-regulated privilege. That notion doesn’t even square with non-gun owners, as the McLaughlin survey results confirm.”
Another revelation is that a majority of voters (52.2%) believe we should enforce existing gun control rather than adopt new measures (40.4%). And 55.5 percent believe we should focus on enforcing current laws to tok prevent violent crime, while 36.1 percent want to enact more laws to “stop the scourge of gun violence and mass shootings.”
More people (44.9%) don’t believe more gun control laws would have prevented mass shootings in Colorado and Georgia than those who do (37.6%)
The gun poll questions were part of a larger survey that had some bad news for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. While 37.1 percent of poll respondents have a favorable opinion of the liberal San Francisco Democrat, 52.9 percent have an unfavorable opinion of her.
On Thursday, four anti-gun Democrats led by Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler, announced the “Judiciary Act of 2021,” but Pelosi quickly announced she has no plans to bring the measure to the House floor for a vote, according to Fox News. She reportedly did acknowledge she is “open” to expanding the size of the court, however.
