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A new poll finds Americans believe restrictions on gun ownership are fueling rising crime, and even Democrats agree gun control has failed.

The Trafalgar Group poll found 37.3 percent of likely voters believed strict gun laws in major cities were making a wave of thefts and organized shoplifting worse. 

Only 15.6 percent believed gun control was helping prevent the robberies, while 47.1 percent believed criminals didn’t care about gun laws either way.

Even among voters the media claim support gun control, support was hard to find.

Among Democrats, only 30.1 percent believed gun control was helping prevent crime.  16.1 percent of Democrats believed gun control was making crime worse, and 53.8 percent of Democrats said gun control was having no effect.

Among political independents, only 9.8 percent said gun control was preventing crime whilw 39.5 percent said gun control was making crime worse. 50.7 percent said gun control was doing nothing.

Black voters were even more skeptical of gun control than white voters.  Only 10.8 percent of black voters said gun control was helping, compared to just 14.8 percent of whites.

Women also said gun control was more likely to hurt than help, with 34.3 percent of women saying anti-gun laws were making crime worse and just 18.7 percent saying gun bans help.

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Michael Brigham has written for American Action News since the summer of 2019. His areas of expertise include foreign affairs, government, and politics, but regardless of the subject matter, he has a nose and an insatiable appetite for news. In his free time, he enjoys reading nonfiction, watching a mix of comedies and true crime documentaries, and spending time away from the swamp hiking in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.

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  2. Guns do not kill people, but evil people kill people. What we need is evil control or extermination of evil.

  3. Here’s a Fun Fact that the media chooses not to mention. The original “gun control” laws passed after the War of Northern Aggression were intended to deny blacks the ability possess firearms. These laws were passed by the party whose members formed the KKK. The other party is the one that freed those former slaves.

    Despite these indisputable facts, the descendants of those freed slaves actually vote FOR those Damnocrats who have enslaved them once again via all the Socialist give-away programs.

  4. I am going to try this a second time since my first response was censored out. The original “gun control” laws were established after the War of Northern Aggression by the party whose members formed the KKK. The intent was to keep firearms out of the hands of the newly freed slaves (freed by the other party). What amazes me is that today’s descendants of those freed slaves vote overwhelmingly for the party that created those original gun control laws. That party has re-enslaved them via the socialist give-away programs that make them dependent on that guilty party and thereby disincentivised to seek gainful legal employment.

  5. Hitler came to power by grabbing and prohibiting guns. Gun grabbers who swear to live and die by the power of Big Government: if you harm our capability for self-defense: prepare to get SHOT.

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    the real reason they want to take our guns is so they can control the Citizens from rising up against them or an invasion of the USA.

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