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(AmmoLand) A new national survey shows 60 percent of poll respondents—including an alarming 88 percent of Democrats—think it is more important to control gun violence than it is to protect gun rights.
According to a report in The Hill, the newly-released NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll shows the highest preference for gun control over gun rights in the past ten years. Shockingly, 40 percent of people who own guns “report feeling the same,” The Hill said.
Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, reacted quickly.
“This is a stunning revelation,” Gottlieb said. “While we have always advocated for safer communities and have supported citizen initiatives aimed at locking up criminals, it is appalling that such an overwhelming percentage of Democrats are so willing to throw the Second Amendment under a bus to achieve some false sense of security.”
The poll was released on the one-year anniversary of the deadly attack on an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where responding police waited in the hallway while the killer was shooting.
While 88 percent of Democrats give gun control a higher priority than protecting the right to keep and bear arms, 67 percent of Republicans think just the opposite.
They think protecting…