Over the last several years, we’ve heard proclamations from those on the political left about what will reduce crime. And they’re pretty passionate about the policies that they think should be implemented for that purpose.
You know, things like ending cash bail so that more and more people arrested for crimes don’t have to pay anything to get out of jail until their trial. Or things like reducing the number of police (and sometimes hiring more social workers). Or things like simply refusing to prosecute certain crimes. Or banning guns.
And the legacy mainstream media just eats it up and spews out the same talking points.
But the American people, apparently, aren’t buying it. In fact, they have some very different viewpoints on what will decrease crime. The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) writes,
The CPRC commissioned a new survey by McLaughlin & Associates of 1,000 general election American voters. Despite all the claims about support for gun control, only 19% of voters think passing more gun control will reduce crime, slightly more (21%) think stricter enforcement of existing gun control. Taken together that means 40% of voters think that gun control has something to do with reducing crime. Normally surveys only give voters those two options. But voters think arresting criminals and keeping them in jail is much more important with 54% of voters taking that stand.
Imagine that. Locking criminals up is more important for reducing crime than gun control.
Now, if you’re wondering why so many polls that the legacy mainstream media quotes don’t give you that information, the CPRC has the answer to that question, too.
The bias with the existing surveys, which limit answers to more gun control or enforcing gun control, is that they make it seem that the only options for reducing crime involve gun control.
In other words, other surveys don’t give people the option of saying “Lock up the criminals and keep them off of the streets!” so, of course, they give an answer that the anti-2A zealots want.
He who asks the questions controls the conversation.
So, don’t be fooled by people pushing gun control spouting results from faulty surveys. They’re only giving you data from surveys that they were able to get the answers from that they wanted for supporting their gun control agenda.
But I’ve come to expect that kind of dishonesty to be used to push gun control. After all, the facts don’t support anti-2A policies.