A month before the November presidential election, Gallup conducted a poll on the Second Amendment and firearms issues. As expected, the group reported that most Americans (56%) want stricter gun laws.
A month later, voters went to the polls and cast their votes for pro-gun control, pro-Second Amendment candidates. This included the re-election of Donald Trump on a pro-gun, pro-Second Amendment platform.
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A closer look at Gallup's methodology reveals the organization's biases.
First, Gallup conducted the poll a month before the election. It probably reflects the hyperbolic opposition to the Second Amendment promoted by the Harris/Waltz camp and a sycophantic media seeking to put a Marxist back in the Oval Office.
Second, this poll was conducted via smartphone text message. This tended to reflect a younger, more progressive audience.
Third, the poll surveyed just 1,023 Americans, a tiny fraction of the country's 345 million people, and had a margin of error of more than 6 percentage points in some cases. is.
Second, this group included 930 registered voters who were not eligible to vote. Perhaps voters will tend to be more involved in the political process and better understand how people actually feel about gun control and the Second Amendment.
Of the 1,023 people in Gallup's targeted group, only 365 identified themselves as gun owners. Assuming they openly admit to such ownership, this percentage (35.8 percent) is nowhere near the more than 50 percent of Americans who own firearms.
The study also failed to recognize that gun owners are far more politically engaged in the electoral process than non-gun owners. The main reason is that they fear government infiltration, registration, and ultimately confiscation of their weapons.
Some of Gallup's questions contained errors. For example, the poll conflated regular semi-automatic rifles with military-style fully automatic rifles. The question: “Do you think the manufacture, possession, and sale of semi-automatic firearms, also known as assault rifles, should or should not be banned?” He is ostensibly guilty of intentionally confusing two completely different types of firearms.
Better polls, different results
A recent poll conducted by McLaughlin & Associates for the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) found that nearly three in four Americans (72%) support the right to keep and bear arms. It became clear. Additionally, 73% agree that the right to keep and bear arms is one of the most important rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
The poll also found that, contrary to Gallup, more than half of Americans (52 percent) believe the key to reducing gun violence is more effective enforcement of existing laws, not more laws. It became clear that he was thinking that. An even higher percentage of Americans, 55 percent, want politicians to focus on enforcing current laws rather than enacting more.
And surprisingly, 58% of Americans (nearly 3 in 5) think gun control should only be implemented in the form of laws passed by Congress, not executive orders.
Jim McLaughlin said:
This survey clearly shows that Americans value their Second Amendment rights. That's obvious. Anyone who says Americans don't believe in the Second Amendment doesn't know what they're talking about.
It's also clear that they don't want Joe Biden to decide gun policy on his own, but rather that the issue be debated through a democratic process.
The problem with misleading polls like Gallup's is that they fuel anti-gun policies on the left and encourage far-left politicians to pursue policies that lack real public support.
