Americans Get It: Anti-Gun Policies Won’t Stop Criminals

I don’t think I’m telling you anything you don’t already know when I say that gun control has been an abject failure when it comes to stopping violent criminals from preying on law-abiding citizens. After all, your understanding of this axiom is likely a large part of why you joined NRA.

But what may be news to you is that so many of your fellow Americans actually understand this, too.

A Gallup poll from last November shows that the general public’s support for making “the laws covering the sale of firearms …more strict” has fallen to its lowest level in nearly a decade. And, considering so many Americans are not even aware of how strict gun laws already are—present company excluded—that’s pretty big news.

Anti-gun extremists—with support from gun-banning billionaires and the legacy media—have been trying to convince average Americans that the literally thousands of gun-control laws currently on the books simply don’t exist. They make outrageous claims, like in 2015, when President Obama said it was easier to buy a gun in some neighborhoods than it was to buy a book or fresh vegetables.