{"id":1175391,"date":"2021-12-31T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1175391"},"modified":"2021-12-31T12:04:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T17:04:13","slug":"poll-majority-of-democrat-voters-think-strict-gun-control-doesnt-affect-crime-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-majority-of-democrat-voters-think-strict-gun-control-doesnt-affect-crime-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Majority of Democrat Voters Think Strict Gun Control Doesn&#039;t Affect Crime Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-majority-of-democrat-voters-think-strict-gun-control-doesnt-affect-crime-levels%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1175391&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A Trafalgar Group poll of likely general election voters from the Democrat Party shows a majority of respondents believe \u201cthe strict gun laws in most major cities\u201d do not in any way curb the \u201ccurrent retail crime surge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trafalgar poll was conducted December 17, 2021, through December 22, 2021.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The poll&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.washtimes.com\/media\/misc\/2021\/12\/29\/Trafalgar_National_Gun_Laws_Poll_Report.pdf\">showed<\/a> that 47.1 percent of all respondents believe the gun controls make \u201cno difference,\u201d and 37.3 percent believe the laws actually make the crime spree \u201cworse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When broken down by parties, 53.8 of Democrat respondents said the gun controls make \u201cno difference\u201d in the crime spree, while 16.1 percent said the controls actually make it \u201cworse.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2766454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Chicago-crime-victims-afp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2766454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Chicago-crime-victims-afp.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Olson\/Getty Images\/AFP\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictures of Chicago residents who have died by gunfire are posted next to a Christmas tree outside Saint Sabina Church on the city\u2019s Southside (Scott Olson\/Getty Images\/AFP).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The majority of Republican respondents, 54.6 percent, said the gun laws are making the crime spree \u201cworse,\u201d and 38.1 percent of Republican respondents said the laws make \u201cno difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 51 percent of respondents with no party affiliation said the gun controls make \u201cno difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On November 17, 2021, Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/17\/support-for-stricter-gun-control-at-lowest-point-since-2014\/\">reported<\/a> Gallup figures showing support for stricter gun control was at its lowest point since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Gallup survey also <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/357317\/stricter-gun-laws-less-popular.aspx\">showed<\/a> that&nbsp;support for a handgun ban was at its lowest point since surveys about such a ban began to be taken in 1959.<\/p>\n<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News<\/em><em>&nbsp;and the writer\/curator of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em><em>a weekly newsletter focused o<\/em><em>n al<\/em><em>l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram:&nbsp;<\/em><em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/awr_hawkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@awr_hawkins<\/a>. Reach him at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:awrhawkins@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">awrhawkins@breitbart.com<\/a>. You can sign up to get Down Range at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breitbart.com\/downrange<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Trafalgar Group poll of likely general election voters from the Democrat Party shows a majority of respondents believe \u201cthe strict gun laws in most major cities\u201d do not in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}