According to polling by Gallup last year, 88 percent of Democrats said laws governing firearm sales should be made more strict, up from 77 percent in and 63 percent in Bloomberg heads one of the most politically active gun control groups and has spent vast sums of money pushing his agenda in races around the country. All the Democrats running for president are seeking one form or another of gun restrictions.
But current frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders finds himself under attack for being too pro gun. David Yamane, a sociology professor at Wake Forest University who studies American gun culture, said polarization over the issue began in the s in the wake of the Gun Control Act of , which was enacted amid national outcry over the assassinations of Robert F.
Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Subsequent efforts by the NRA to seize on gun rights as a partisan issue only heightened the divide. One Democratic president, John F. Kennedy, was actually a member of the National Rifle Association. Liberal gun owners, Yamane said, are generally newer to gun ownership and are less likely to be the stereotypical face of gun owners: older, white men. Kat Ellsworth, from Chicago, was firmly against firearms and favored gun-control until just a few years ago, when she went with a friend to a gun range and discovered a love for guns and shooting.
With the Illinois primary approaching in mid-March, she is leaning toward Sanders or Sen. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so.
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You will still see some advertising, regardless of your selection. The post-Constitution leftist meme that paints such a proposition as lunacy is counterfeit; that right, as set forth in the Declaration of Independence, is historical fact, and the Second Amendment was included specifically to give that guarantee teeth.
So city gun ownership purchases are different from country gun ownership purchases? So non-gun owners simply misunderstand [ie. So the government is the biggest problem, not a solution. So the ground-breaking news is? Duh, the states that are actively attempting to restrict ownership have created a movement of citizens attempting to preserve their freedoms and prevent themselves from becoming felons overnight by overzealous ideological governments.
Boston University should be ashamed to be trumpeting this as anything more than straight propaganda. The ACLU advocates for peoples constitutional rights by lobbying and fighting legal battles against unconstitutional legislation, and legaly challenges both federal and state agencies violations of peoples constitutional rights. Wich obviously by each challenge show Americans that their elected officials cannot be trusted by passing legislation in violation of the constitution. It also constantly challenges Federal agencies claiming their actions violated a persons or groups constitutional rights.
In short it shows that we must question and not entirely trust our goverment. The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Why is that concept so hard for the researchers to grasp? The 2nd amendment is not for hunting or recreation. It is for exactly what the study revealed: to keep states with over reaching governments scared and accountable to we the people. Progressives stance on gun control reminds me a great deal like Progressives stance on drugs i.
What does that tell you? Did BU ever think that Maybe states, such as New York and Massachusetts, have very low recreational and self-defense gun cultures but very high Second Amendment activism because they have such restrictive gun laws! Your email address will not be published. Boston University More Publications. The Brink. July 15, Michelle Samuels. Twitter Facebook.
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