Sorry I don´t buy this lie. If the principal and teachers all had guns, this massacre wouldn´t have happened.

If just ONE had a firearm, none of this would have happened.

Pollor: "Which would you rather have, gun control or your knees removed by a rusty spoon?"

Pollee: "Gimme gun control, please!"

Result: Most people (well, 49% but who´s counting?) want gun control. Wuzzat you say, what about the second amendment part? Eh, knees removed, 2nd amendment; same dog, different chain. That´s the result of our poll and we´re sticking to it!

typical Pew poll framed to make propoganda. Goebels would be proud. Inane question asked at an emotional time.

I´ve never owned a gun but have always believed in the 2nd amendment. I am seriously considering taking a local C&C class and purchasing something for self-defense.

Polls be damned !

And I´m the queen of Romania.

Well, isn´t that special? Just yesterday a Gallup poll stated just the opposite - that 2nd Amendment rights were far more important.

#5...do it. Start the process today. You won´t regret it. Gather the needed couple page paperwork, start to fill it out. Register for class/s . Follow through . Then, it´s buy or not buy a firearm ( your choice). I got my permit to carry with no intention on owning a gun. That all changed as I found I really enjoyed the sport of target shooting. I bought the first of many firearms. That was over 10 years ago now. I´m now 62 and have never harmed anyone or anything in my entire life. I hope to finish out my life living the same, gentle way. I am, however, prepared and trained to defend myself and family if ever necessary. Do it.

No surprise here. If a majority of Americans cared about the constitution, Obama would not be given another 4 years to destroy it. Lemmings! Don´t look down.

Whatever. My right to be free and have the means to defend myself trumps their desire to be slaves.

We need not be a majority when well armed.

I don´t buy this either. Maybe they are asking people who have no notion of what the second amendment or even the Constitution is. America has descended into a pot of imbeciles.

I never felt the need to own a gun for protection before Obama got elected. I now own several. I expected buying would be difficult, waiting period, etc. I guess it depends on what state you live in. Paperwork and background check took less than 10 minutes. My wife and I went to the sherriff´s dept. and filled out paperwork for concealed carry permits. We each paid $10.00. In 4 days we recieved a temp. permit. In less than two weeks we recieved laminated permits good for 4 years. No training of any kind was required.
Many would find it outrageous that buying guns and getting a license is so easy. I worry much more about being killed by a driver texting or talking on a cell phone than I do about being shot by a legal gun owner.

Does the term BS ring a bell?? Get real!

BS, but this debate is getting pointless and very tiresome. You want them, come get them.

No one can convince me that the Founding Fathers put the 2nd amendment in there with the thought of providing unlimited access to guns to people with serious mental illness during psychotic breaks.

Poll: pro-life sentiment trumps "constitutional" right to privacy...

Fortunately, the Second Amendment cannot be changed on the basis of some poll.

#17, I do because our Founding Fathers were much more intelligent, educated, thoughtful and thorough than anyone I have ever known today. They thought of thing that nobody today would ever consider. I believe the FF were not concerned about those that were considered crazy because they would have taken any dangerous people out of the public in the first place and any others would be punished if they broke any laws. They felt it was more important that people´s right to self-defense be unencumbered. Even nuts have a right to defend themselves.

By the way, now we know why the poll is called "pew"...P.U.!

I wonder if anyone would ever think of "speech control" or putting conditions on the right to not be made to quarter troops.

The Bill of Rights is about rights, period. You can´t "abuse" a right, you can only break a law.

The people who talk about how many guns a person "needs" grate on me just like people who question how much money someone else "needs." It is none of your business or mine.

Even if they would ban guns,they would still have to come get them.

The Founding Fathers gave us a framework from which to live our lives, guaranteeing our liberty and freedom from oppression by a government.

It is up to us to maintain that liberty and when someone like Adam Lanza comes along does what he did, then it´s up to us to remove him and his kind from society.

Punishing law abiding citizens and removing their liberty is tantamount to treason and the first steps into a dictatorship. If you want to see this country literally come apart, then try to take away our right to gun ownership. It will be the next civil war.

Of course, liberals and even some moderates would frame it as a race issue. The media would shout it from every corner: ´Racists! Racists won´t give up their guns and they´re coming to kill your children!´

You can either place blame on the true cause (mental illness) or you can place blame on a non-sentient appliance that has never killed anyone. Your choice. But stand ready to live with the consequences.

Well the real facts are 47% of all American households have one or more firearms. The total number of firearms owned by Americans exceeds 300 Million. The NRA is gaining 8000 members per day. The recent surge in firearms purchases is America saying we will take responsibility to protect ourselves because the government can´t and we don´t trust obama to protect our rights under the Constitution.

And, on question #2, these same Americans thought B.O. was the greatest president in history. /s

Just as I predicted yesterday. Pretty soon, the polls will be 75% instead of 49%, if the media has anything to do with it, and they do.

You must remember that "gun control" means a lot of things to many people besides essentially banning an entire class of firearms as the liberal Democrats say they want to do. Of course controlling the purchase and possession of firearms by dangerous mentally ill people stands out from the constitutional right of law abiding Americans to purchase and possess firearms under the 2nd Amendment.

I blame the lack of civics education in this country.

They have not been taught about their protections under the "rule of law" and that the constitution is the contract by which we have agreed to have a government to manage certain affairs viz "bulls**t (foreign affairs), bullets (armed forces to protect the nation) and ballots ( elections for representatives to manage interstate affairs).

Those of you who have not talked to few recent college graduates about their study courses are in for a shock!

See? Brain washing does work!

BS.

Yeaaahhh, that´s why gun sales are through the roof right now.

More "input" from our Low Information Morons (LIM).

Stupidity beats reality again.

Oh yes those ever so accurate polls...all polls are rigged, so what ever our federal overlords want us to believe...this is hog wash! It is the Bill of Rights, not the bill of wants/needs...please!

This sounds very familiar. First they take away the guns, next they inflate the currency until it´s worthless, then they round up the Jews.

It´s the Obama voter; ignorant of everything American. They have the same respect for the Constitution as the Obama Alynskyites. What Constitution?

I do not believe it. The poll I read said the opposite. Is it just Politico being in their Leftist comfort zone?

Baloney. Join the NRA and get a membership card. That card should be the new ID of all real Americans. Show your support of the Constitution and protest the tyranny and stupidity of Obama and leftist libs.

Here in MA, the day after obama was elected in 2008, Bass Pro Shop could not keep up with the number of people buying guns and bullets. Ever since, there has been a line (take a number like you do at the deli)at the gun counter. MA!

By "Gun Control" do they mean using both hands?

Politico is making a huge push to convince the Democrats that gun control is no longer a losing issue. They may succeed in that, but smart Dems will probably look at the rate of gun sales and see that Politico is full of stuff.

What´s the point?..why even bother to discuss this with brain dead liberals? At some point in time, and I hope it´s soon, we need to decide, or understand, we are not "philosophically aligned" in any way with these wankers. At some point in time we need to rid ourselves - remove this cancer called liberalism - before it kills the patient. At some point, we have acknowledge that there are truly irreconcilable differences and just secede....this is waaaay past tiresome.

Instead of putting armed guards in school, why not put an anti-gun activist in each classroom. If a shooter enters the classromm, the activist will simply disarm the shooter.

So what? That´s what guns are for.

I would really like somebody on the left to defend the statement that David Letterman made on his show recently. He said there have been 70 shootings since the Brady bill passed in 1993-94.

I thought that bill was supposed to make us all a lot safer by banning assault guns?s/o

There is another "poll" being conducted as we speak/write. Eight thousand people per day are buying new memberships in the NRA. That´s close to 50,000 so far.

How many people did Pew contact in this poll? 1,219??

Did Pew give a free cell phone to each participant who voted their way?

There are already 20,000+ limitations nationwide placed on my fundamental 2nd amendment rights. Criminals obey none of them. Who would be so naive as to think a criminal will obey one more? Nobody. Not even the libs. They don´t care about criminals or psychos, they care about disarming free people. That has been the goal all along.
Dont listen to what they say, look at what they do. It works every time.

Polls are skewed to get desired results...this is all B.S. AND our Constitution doesn´t exist by opinion polls. It is the Law of the land, period!