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General Category => Firearms Related => Topic started by: GunLink on October 22, 2015, 11:40:53 AM
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Despite Criticism, NRA Still Enjoys Majority Support in U.S. (http://www.gallup.com/poll/186284/despite-criticism-nra-enjoys-majority-support.aspx)
Despite a year of blistering criticism from gun control advocates about the National Rifle Association's hard-line stance against gun restrictions amid a spate of mass shootings nationwide, 58% in the U.S. have a favorable opinion of the NRA.
In a year plagued with mass shootings, including a recent tragedy at a community college in Oregon, there has been a national debate as to whether the NRA, with its ardent support for gun rights, is somehow complicit in these shootings. For example, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has blamed the NRA for stifling the movement toward gun control...
Yet in a Gallup poll from Oct. 7-11, a solid majority of Americans (58%) say they have an overall favorable impression of the NRA. This includes the highest recording of "very favorable" opinions (26%) since Gallup began asking this question in 1989... (continue reading at Gallup (http://www.gallup.com/poll/186284/despite-criticism-nra-enjoys-majority-support.aspx))
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