{"id":3819,"date":"2011-10-27T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/10\/27\/saf-on-recent-gallup-po\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:16:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:16:40","slug":"saf-on-recent-gallup-po","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3819","title":{"rendered":"SAF On Recent Gallup Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16795,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.saf.org\\\/viewpr-new.asp?id=379&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20121017105830\\\/http:\\\/\\\/saf.org\\\/viewpr-new.asp?id=379&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 01:38:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 01:38:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saf.org\/viewpr-new.asp?id=379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Second Amendment Foundation released this<\/a> in response to the recent Gallup poll showing support for more gun control at an all-time low.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>SAF SAYS NEW GALLUP DATA SHOWS AMERICANS VALUE THEIR GUN RIGHTS<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release:   10\/26\/2011<\/p>\n<p>BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 Today\u2019s revelation by Gallup that a record low number of Americans support a legal ban on handgun possession by private citizens demonstrates a positive change in the public attitude about personal protection and the Second Amendment, the Second Amendment Foundation said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gallup, only 26 percent of Americans favor a handgun ban. The annual Gallup Crime poll was conducted Oct. 6-9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican citizens have become increasingly aware that they are the true \u2018first responders\u2019 when a crime happens in their presence,\u201d noted SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb. \u201cThe public\u2019s attitude about gun ownership has changed dramatically in the last decade, and especially since the Supreme Court\u2019s Heller ruling in 2008 and our victory in the 2010 McDonald ruling, affirming the Second Amendment protects an individual civil right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public has also realized that all the doom and gloom rhetoric from gun prohibitionists about more crime and violence associated with increased gun ownership has been wrong,\u201d he continued. \u201cMore Americans today own firearms than they did a generation ago, yet violent crime rates are at their lowest levels in many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Gallup, there is also greater opposition to a ban on semiautomatic sport-utility rifles, often wrongly identified as \u201cassault weapons.\u201d Only 43 percent of those polled think these guns should be banned, down ten percent from the 2001 poll. Support for stricter gun laws has also declined, with 44 percent believing laws should be left as they are, and 11 percent favoring less strict laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pendulum has definitely been swinging in favor of expanded gun rights,\u201d Gottlieb observed. \u201cFor too long, people were fooled by hysteria and misinformation from gun prohibitionists and their cheerleaders in the press. But their alarmist rhetoric has failed the test of time, and now Americans by greater percentages than we\u2019ve seen in generations are realizing that gun rights are important, to our security as a nation and to public safety in our own neighborhoods.\u201d<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Amendment Foundation released this in response to the recent Gallup poll showing support for more gun control&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1748,45,384],"class_list":["post-3819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gallup-poll","tag-gun-control","tag-second-amendment-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7349,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions\/7349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}