Left Rudder

In another desperate attempt to bolster sagging gunloon morale, Alphecca breathlessly cites a Gallup Poll on the US public’s attitude toward gun laws:

a very slim majority — 51% — favor additional measures; 47% are against it.

In reality, the poll says 51% favor stricter gun laws, 8% favor less strict laws, 39% say keep laws as is, and 2% are unsure.

Ah well, you have to feel for the gunloon side; truth just has a liberal bias.

Still another example of how the NRA wants to make the GOP a third party in US politics:

The National Rifle Association has promised to come back with another version of the measure - which the organization has developed into a state-by-state, national campaign. In an e-mail to Republican state senators, chamber spokesman Joe Fleming on Monday promised to again oppose it:

“The NRA has regrettably placed the members of the majority caucus in a trap, asking senators to choose between the principles for which the members stand and - as one senator has said - ‘a solution in search of a problem.

“As amended, the bill would for forbid property owners and employers from establishing policies that prevent the introduction of guns into the workplace.

“The officers of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce met this past week, and strongly re-affirmed their complete, total opposition to the parts of HB 89 that were added to that bill in the Senate Rules Committee.

“I feel it is my duty to inform you of this action before the Republican caucus meets later this week.”

Perhaps more important, a similar measure in Oklahoma was struck down in federal court last week, when a judge determined that employers couldn’t comply with both a law permitting guns in corporate lots, and the federal Occupational Health and Safety Act.. You know - OSHA.

Sooooo…when a gunloon talks about “rights”, he doesn’t mean yours.

In other news, earth revolves around sun.

Desperate for any good news, various censorious gunloons are proclaiming victory by claiming polls show two-thirds of the US public oppose a ban on handguns.

And it’s absolutely true–the polls show nearly that. But it’s also true the polls have shown that for at least a decade.

Is there anything missing from the gunloons’ decade-old information? Say….like the fact most Americans support stricter–not more relaxed –gun laws? Or that most Americans favor a ban on semi-automatic handguns? And favor a ban on assault weapons?

I guess when things aren’t going your way, ten year old info becomes important.