Majority of American Voters Don't Fault U.S. Gun Laws

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Zogby/O'Leary Report Poll Finds Majority of American Voters Don't Fault U.S. Gun Laws for Mexican Drug Violence

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tool goes here WASHINGTON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has stated that the Obama administration would like to resurrect the Clinton ban on semi-automatic firearms, as well as other gun control laws.

One of the reasons for bringing back these unpopular laws, according to Holder, is that Mexican drug cartels are becoming increasingly violent and warring with Mexican government troops. Holder says that some of the guns being used by the Mexican drug mafia are being obtained illegally from the United States.

Mexico is a country with a reputation for political corruption and a healthy disregard for the individual rights of its citizens. Still, Holder and the Obama administration think that limiting the Second Amendment rights of U.S. citizens is a cure for drug violence in Mexico.

However, according to a recent poll conducted by The O'Leary Report and Zogby International, a vast majority of the American voting public disagrees.

The poll, which was conducted March 20-23 and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 1.5 percentage points, asked 4,523 likely voters:

"Mexican officials, gun control groups and officials at the Department of Homeland Security claim drug cartels are crossing the U.S. border in order to obtain guns illicitly. Others say that the Mexican drug cartels are equipped with military hardware including grenades, anti-tank missiles and mortars - all weapons that are not available to the American public. Which of the following do you think is the main source for Mexican drug cartel arms?"

Sixty-five percent of voters say that the international black market is the main source for Mexican drug cartel arms; while only 13.5 percent think these arms are coming from U.S. gun stores (3.5 percent think the arms are coming from somewhere else and 18 percent are not sure).

Among voters aged 18-29 years old, one of President Obama's strongest groups of supporters, 73 percent say international black market, and just six percent say U.S. gun stores (two percent say somewhere else and 19 percent are not sure).

A strong majority of self-described Independent voters (66 percent) also say that the international black market is main source of arms for Mexican drug cartels, and only 12 percent say U.S. gun stores (four percent say somewhere else and 19 percent are not sure).

Brad O'Leary is publisher of "The O'Leary Report," a bestselling author, and is a former NBC Westwood One talk show host. His new book, "Shut Up, America! The End of Free Speech," will be in bookstores April 14. To see more poll results, go to www.olearyreport.com.

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Me personally...I blame incompetent and ineffectual US Federal response to what is basically an open border with a corrupt, third world, narco-state. This is why the USA was basically formed...for a common defense. The states pay Federal taxes to incompetent morons that have refused to do their job for the last 25+ years. And now the chickens have come to roost and the festering pimple has come to a head.

These idiots need to focus on the border, not on hammering the general American public as a scapegoat for failed Federal policy et al in regard to regulating the border. Bush ignored the situation on the border for his own self serving reasons and now Obama and the Dim Libs focus on the situation as an excuse to push an agenda they wanted to pursue anyway. They use the violence in Mexico as a pretext for US gun control. Their pet project for several decades.

It is obvious they are selective in the agendas they actively pursue. First they blame the USA for the appetite for narcotics and shipping narco money/guns south, but say absolutely nothing about the Mexican government dumping its citizens illegally in the USA to work illegally and send remittances south while Americans are suffering 8+% unemployment and rising to 10%. Obama, Pelosi, and Reid actively bar any enforcement of immigration/work authorization laws, but pursue US gun control on the pretext of the situation on the border?

What is wrong with this picture? It's fvcking obvious to me! Is this change we can believe in? No thanks, Obama can keep his change. I want real change. Not Liberal pandering to their base. This is not why the electorate put these clowns in office. I can guarantee that.

Edited March 27, 2009 by peejay

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