More Signs of the K-shift – Assault Weapons Poll

“Assault Weapons” are now more popular:

Something I forgot to mention in my previous post about the NYT/CBS News poll showing terrorism fears reaching levels not seen since the immediate weeks after the 9/11 attacks-Americans are also not really getting behind the president’s renewed call for a ban on assault rifles. Only 44 percent of Americans support the position, 50 percent oppose it.

The publication noted that support for this unserious gun control policy is now registering 19 points below how the public felt following the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, which almost took the life of former Rep. Gabby Giffords (R-AZ).

There are few things more associated with violence than the image of assault weapons – or more able to separate the rabbits from the wolves psychologically. Rabbits want to be protected from the violence, wolves know there is no protection, except the violence they can visit upon others themselves. From Sheriffs calling on the public to arm itself and meet mass shooters head on to a public that increasingly views assault weapons as necessary tools for self preservation, this is the K-shift. We don’t argue any differently, we don’t debate any more, and the public just comes around to our way of seeing things.