Majority Support Thune Amendment

Say Uncle has a great post up citing the O'Leary Report, which is here. According to O'Leary, 52% of voters would oppose a Senator who voted to confirm Sonja Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. On the question of whether or not people with concealed carry licenses should be allowed to carry across state lines (the Thune Amendment) a whopping 83% agreed they should. The numbers were high in all demographics, with 86% if independents, 80% of Democrats, and 83% of people ages 18 to 49 years.


The numbers supporting the Thune Amendment surprised the h*** out of me. When I first became aware of the gun rights movement in the late 60s, gun control looked to be the wave of the future. Everyone I spoke to mouthed the common "wisdom" that fewer guns meant less crime. My point, that a law on the books making guns illegal would be ignored just like the laws that say you can't murder, fell on deaf ears. It is good to see that the writings of people like Stephan Holbrook, Dave Kopel, Alan Korwin, John Lott, as well as organizations like Gun Owners of America, Jews For the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee to Keep and Bear Arms are having an effect. More and more people are seeing the failure of gun control to deliver on its promises, and are saying "no more." Of course, it we slack of now, the battle will be lost. We have to keep reminding people, but I am optimistic that in the end we will succeed.