Over and over again, anti-gunners claim that gun control is popular. They cite polls from years ago, often right after some particularly terrible massacre, and then run with it until there’s another poll that supports their point of view. The fact that many of these polls are also intended to produce an anti-gun response gets left out of way too many citations, too.
But right now, a lot is going on, and the push for gun control is still going on, even if it’s a lot more vague in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the attack on a Dallas ICE facility.
What they don’t seem to get, though, is that it seems that most of the American public actually supports President Donald Trump and the Republican Party on gun issues more than the Democrats.
For too long, politicians have underestimated how central the Second Amendment is to American voters. They assumed that a few campaign slogans would be enough to satisfy gun owners.
But a new Reuters/Ipsos poll from Sept. 23 proves otherwise: Republicans now lead Democrats by four points on gun policy and by a decisive 20 points on crime. These numbers show that defending the right to keep and bear arms is not only good policy—it’s good politics. They also confirm a larger trend: America supports President Trump’s pro-gun agenda.
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With this lead over Democrats in the polls, Republicans are reaping the benefits of their pro-gun actions. Earlier this year, Republicans eliminated the $200 tax on items like short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, suppressors, and other firearms that are regulated by the National Firearms Act (NFA). While this was far from what the pro-gun community was demanding—that is, the removal of these items entirely from NFA regulations—it was at least a step in the right direction. For over 90 years, the NFA was the centerpiece of the gun control lobby’s agenda. Chipping away at it is more than symbolic—it’s a sign that Republicans are beginning to legislate in line with the priorities of the people who elect them.
And Trump himself set the tone. His executive order on “Protecting Second Amendment Rights” directed federal agencies to review and eliminate regulations that infringed on the right to keep and bear arms. That move, like the recent rollback of NFA taxes, demonstrated that a proactive, unapologetic defense of gun rights can strengthen both policy and political standing. The latest polling is simply more proof that Americans reward leaders who follow through on their promises to protect the Second Amendment.
The reality is that Trump is walking the walk after talking the talk, something far too few elected officials do. He’s brought in the National Guard to protect federal assets and to clean up the streets of DC, which has long been needed.
And people are seeing the results.
The truth of the matter is that people have recognized that the left’s pro-criminal policies aren’t yielding positive results. If they were, that would be one thing, but they’re not. Crime keeps increasing in various ways. Refusal to prosecute shoplifting, for example, led to some cities seeing retail outlets close down or hide products so they couldn’t be stolen because of the brazen examples that followed. Rather than stuffing a single item into their pants and waltzing out, shoplifters walked in with bags they filled with goods that they then left with. Thousands of dollars of merchandise stolen, and there was no avenue for them.
Cashless bail took violent criminals, then put them back on the streets just hours after they were arrested, meaning they had still more opportunity to hurt others.
And through it all, a lot of people who might support gun control started to wake up and recognize that President Trump, for all his sins, was actually trying to make it so that crime ended and, in the meantime, people could defend themselves from the criminals.
Is it any wonder he’s winning on these two issues?
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