PA Bill Number: HB2235

Title: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ...

Description: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ... ...

Last Action: Referred to LABOR AND INDUSTRY

Last Action Date: Apr 25, 2024

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Rasmussen Friday: Americans like living where guns are allowed :: 06/13/2015

Rasmussen Reports today revealed that an overwhelming majority of American voters “prefer living in a neighborhood where they have the option of owning a gun than to live where nobody is allowed to be armed.”

The Friday report also notes that more voters believe President Barack Obama is “less faithful to the Constitution.” The second revelation comes from a survey that found, “On issues from immigration policy to Obamacare, Obama’s executive actions have sparked criticism that the president acted outside the Constitution by circumventing Congress.”

It is significant that both of these reports appeared on the same day, because the Obama Justice Department has been under heavy criticism lately from the Second Amendment community for proposing a dozen new gun control measures. Most gun owners oppose the president's gun control policies and his administration's history concerning firearms, and they cite among the reasons as Fast and Furious, expanded long gun reporting requirements in four Southwest states, and support for bans on so-called “assault rifles” and so-called “universal background checks.” The latter, say gun rights activists, is nothing more than a registration scheme.

According to Rasmussen, 68 percent of likely voters “would feel safer in a neighborhood where guns are allowed” while only 22 percent “would feel safer living in a neighborhood where nobody was allowed to own a gun.” Many in the firearms community believe that a fair number of non-gun owners simply take advantage of the residual safety of living around neighbors who own guns.

The survey was conducted by telephone among 977 likely voters June 8-9 with a margin of error of =/- 3 percentage points. Rasmussen says the results have a 95 percent level of confidence.

The same survey also revealed that “Voters still tend to see no need for more gun control in America and remain strongly opposed to a complete ban on handguns.”

The Obama survey was conducted June 10-11 from among 966 likely voters, with the same margin of error and level of confidence. Perhaps not coincidentally, Rasmussen’s daily presidential tracking poll shows that 53 percent of likely voters disapprove of Obama’s job performance, while 45 percent approve. On Thursday, the poll had the president at 47 percent approval.

The past week has seen one story out of New Jersey that has alarmed gun owners everywhere. The slaying of Carol Bowne in her driveway apparently by a man against whom she had a protection order – while she was waiting for local authorities to approve her permit to buy a gun – has revealed the problems with strict gun control laws, and the deliberate lethargy of bureaucrats when it comes to the exercise of Second Amendment rights.

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