By the Numbers: Obama’s Popularity Plunges While Gun Rights Issues Gain in Popularity

By Greg Campbell
TPNN Contributor

Though President Obama continually touts the support of America in his crusade against gun rights, he may be doing so on mere speculation as polls released on Friday indicate that Americans are dissatisfied with his new gun control proposals.

Gallup released a new poll with Obama plunging below the 50% mark. While TPNN recently reported that Obama enjoyed a 53% favorable rating, his numbers have crashed to 49% amidst his vehement crusade for stricter gun control laws.

As Obama suffers the decline, the latest Gallup polls show a 54% approval rating of the NRA.

While Obama’s approval rating is not entirely tied to gun control issues, it has remained at the forefront of national discussion and Obama has recently unveiled 23 executive orders he signed that he has claimed will help curb gun violence.

Obama’s slump comes after a brief surge from having secured higher taxes in the fiscal cliff negotiations while not submitting to any meaningful spending cuts- a victory for the left who have advocated continual government spending.

Meanwhile, while President Obama and other leading liberals have questioned why anyone would need, what they call, “weapons of war” and “assault weapons,” according to Rasmussen Polls, 65% of Americans view the Second Amendment protection of individual firearm ownership to not be merely a sporting consideration, but to be a protection against tyranny.

Rasmussen reports,

“The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 65% of American Adults think the purpose of the Second Amendment is to make sure that people are able to protect themselves from tyranny. Only 17% disagree, while another 18% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Not surprisingly, 72% of those with a gun in their family regard the Second Amendment as a protection against tyranny. However, even a majority (57%) of those without a gun in their home hold that view.

Many gun control advocates talk of the right to gun ownership as relating to hunting and recreational uses only.

While there are often wide partisan differences of opinion on gun-related issues, even 54% of Democrats agree with 75% of Republicans and 68% of those not affiliated with either major party that the right to own a gun is to ensure such freedom.”

Furthermore, 74% of Americans asked view the Constitution as guaranteeing the right of the average citizen to own a gun while only 17% disagree. 66% believe that there is too much government power and too little individual freedom and 60% feel that the federal government today does not have the consent of the governed.

With stark numbers like these, it is easy to see why previously-mothballed issues like nullification of unconstitutional federal laws have seen a dramatic resurgence in recent months and why grassroots conservatism continues to grow as Americans look to express their dissatisfaction with the expanding federal government.

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http://www.facebook.com/AbbasWingsprouter Lisbeth Noelle Secon Rothe

Dana, I would be careful about blanket judgments concerning those who voted for Obama. The reality doesn’t really back your suppositions. It is this kind of demonization of those with whom we are in disagreement that leads to the belief that we are ignorant ideologues. There are many who have been mislead and have believed the lies told by the mainstream media outlets (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, etal.), and what conservative news they receive too often falls in the same category as what you have posted. Don’t add to the disfunctional and divisionary glut.
http://twitter.com/RevBH69 Bob Helms

What this whole mess boils down to is; parents have fallen for the lie that government can raise your kids better than you. not just educate, but indoctrinate, and Baby sit. problem is liberalism is the key ideology in the school system; values and family values are missing we are raising two generations with no value for life, no integrity to truth, and no real nurturing from mom and dad. we have allowed the process of liberal ideology take control. ” the end justifies the end” expression without responsibility or accountability.
disqus_fbjT9SYEFJ

Incredible sporting Ha! Ask a liberal If they rather be shot with an AR15 or The hunting Civil war riffle 45/70 Elefant gun. The Geneva Convention Treaty AR15, M16 7.62 ammo is for wounding in war not killing and how do you extract information from a dead man. The war Concept comes from Shakespeare King Henry the 5th, ” When leanity and cruelty play for a kingdom the gentler gamester the sooner winner”. We’ve been Duped with stupidity.
WhiteWolf57

Our disaster in chief rigged the electoral college and won the election. He did not win the popular (people’s) vote. Now, those who voted for him are complaining! They have the right to complain??? 4 more years of this America hating Muslim … the same people who took down the World Trade Center towers and killed over 3000 human beings!!!
keepersleeper

…Yet Obama is back in office for another 4 years to do untold damage to the country!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Frank-Johnson/100001454493588 Frank Johnson

Why was he ever elected and you would think even dumb people would know better the second time???
http://www.facebook.com/kelsee.rice Kelsee Rice

Maybe we should hand out a ” I have no gun in my home ” sign to each Dumb-o-crap voter at the polls next time we have an election, so they can post them in their front yards and let the criminals know what houses are safe for them to enter ??
ONLYJB1

Even the obamaphone lady says she can’t believe she voted for him. Her last check was short on take home pay and her messiah said he was only going after the rich! B acon S andwich people!
ONLYJB1

Even these figures are bogus or at the very least made up. Just after receiving their first paycheck of this new year, his godly rating plummeted to 29% or less! After the up coming March fiasco he should level out at ZERO Percentage points!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Scooter-Orsburn/100000103956479 Scooter Orsburn

This president is Clearly attempting to destroy our Constituton, Dis-Arm the American Citizenry, and make our Great Country part of a New World Order
, he , on directives from George Soros , is systomatically destroying the U S A ‘s Religous structure , Its Constituton , it’s Bill of Rights and it’s Finantial
security. Only the most gullable and those who are complicit in his endeavors condone his treasonous Actions .
Kathleen M. Pallo

King Obama wants to rule every part of our lives and he wants to take away our guns so that we are helpless. He is the King, we are the slaves. I don’t want to go to Obama’s plantation, I don’t want to be his slave. I don’t need him to take care of me and I don’t want him to take care of me. I value my freedom. “Give me liberty or give me death.”
American Eagle

Look in the past…Idiots such as obama have all met with their doom. Stay armed, speak the TRUTH, and speak it loudly. Do NOT back down and NEVER GIVE UP. We will destroy the progressive movement with` their` help.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1473135686 Patrick Castronovo

“There is a constitutional right to bear
arms,” “I did not create that and Obama cannot & will not erase
that!” -Marco Rubio
TexasLadyJuanita

The People Are Aware more and more each passing day ;)
- keepersleeper
  
  I hope you’re right.
Tesla

how did gun control work for Fort Hood and the Gun Free Zone created by Clinton that slaughter helpless American miIitary personnel until a woman had to iIIegaIy bring a gun into a Gun Free Zone to stop a mad man that didn’t honor the Gun Free Zone. Now Democrats want to turn the whole USA into a Mad Man free zone.
Fish

May be time to start a “Re-Call” movement….
http://twitter.com/angel13wowings Faye Shamblin

Npt only the numbers to go downward I sure hope somebody puts him where he belongs in prison Obama can’t open his mouth but to tell lies steals and kills 4 Americans in Libya now its his turn to go down charged with fraud and treason NOW
http://www.facebook.com/sjhrphil Phil Gunner Vilardi

The Battle of Athens (sometimes called the McMinn County War) was a rebellion led by citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the local government in August 1946. The citizens, including some World War II veterans, accused the local officials of political corruption and voter intimidation.

Polls for the county election opened August 1, 1946. About 200 armed deputies turned out to patrol the precincts—the normal complement of 15 deputies significantly augmented by reinforcements from other counties. A number of conflicts arose before the polls closed, the most serious of which was when deputy CM Wise shot and wounded a black man who was trying to vote.[3]
As the polls closed, deputies seized ballot boxes and took them to the jail. Opposition veterans responded by arming themselves and marching there. Some of them had raided the National Guard Armory, obtaining arms and ammunition.[5] Estimates of the number of veterans besieging the jail vary from several hundred[5] to as high as 2,000.[3]
When the men reached the jail, it was barricaded and manned by 55 deputies. The veterans demanded the ballot boxes but were refused. They then opened fire on the jail, initiating a battle that lasted several hours by some accounts,[3][5] considerably less by others.[6] In the end, the door of the jail was dynamited and breached. The barricaded deputies—some with injuries—surrendered, and the ballot boxes were recovered.

The recovered ballots certified the election of the five GI Non-Partisan League candidates.[6] Among the reforms instituted was a change in the method of payment and a $5,000 salary cap for officials. In the initial momentum of victory, gambling houses in collusion with the Cantrell regime were raided and their operations demolished. Deputies of the prior administration resigned and were replaced

This took place 67 years ago….not 1865….not 1776. the government has the potential to become oppressive and if you don’t believe that you are lying to yourself. Our constitution is under attack. I would rather patriots be armed with good hardware in the event it’s needed. I know what you’re thinking…Good luck going up against the US military…But there will be no need for that, The US military has taken an oath to uphold the constitution and protect the country (not the government) from all enemies foreign and domestic. I took that oath when i was in the service as did the 26 million other veterans of the US armed forces currently residing in the US (that’s 10 times the number of current active duty and reserve members)….as you can see by the battle of Athens Tenn. veterans are more then willing to step up to the plate……
- keepersleeper
  
  Open rebellion against a tyrannical gov’t is necessary for the preservation of the nation. I hope enough veterans and current military forces will take the right side and do the right thing to save our nation, if and when the time comes. God Bless America!
Bruce Feher

We are stuck with this guy until the next election when at such time I hope the fools that elected him wise up and pay attention to the TP.
- Richard Morgan
  
  Dream along with me I’m on my way to the stars. No way will this country survive under This president for another four years. If the people do not stand up immediately and put a stop to this ,our country will not survive.
  - keepersleeper
    
    …And everyone has to stop being afraid of offending the black voter. There are many of us who despise Obama and would love to see him ousted!
- keepersleeper
  
  Well, people have to stop being afraid of “injuring” the black voter. I’m NOT white, but I recognize the harm that Obama has done to the country…there’s no need for anyone to be afraid of him because of his color…I’m not!
M Patriot

I am really disgusted that Obama hasn’t been impeached. If any other President in the history of the U.S. including Bill Clinton had trampled on the Constitution like Obama, they would have been impeached and imprisoned for treason!
http://twitter.com/PaulRevereMedia Rick Johnson

Damn the bad luck. I was hoping the entire country would be worshiping the messiah as he marches into his next coronation as the king with no cloths.
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http://www.facebook.com/pmcconathy1 Phil McConathy

I am hoping that Americans are finally waking up to the disaster that occupies the White House and they are starting to realize we have a hard core Socialist as president.
- keepersleeper
  
  He’s more fascist than anything else.
medivac

Reelecting obama was like picking up a turd on the clean end !!
Waldo

He will not get his way with Congress so to get his way he will have his head of state sign the small arms treaty and give all our gun rights to the United Nations and then stand back and say there is nothing he can do about it.
Hillary has already started the discussion saying she was willing to talk about signing the treaty so down the slope we go.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jhon-Kacan/100003185883958 Jhon Kacan

NO Wellnowdear,not dump,the Smart who was vote for him start moving to we side,idiot is better of dump.That was my prediction,wait two or tree m onth and will see 40% of aprove,and we side gofor his opposition.For four years all was like on wheel,but now start with some minor problem,that problem will go up,now opposition have 53%.FOR DEMS AND LIBERAL IS TO MUCH HARD UNDERSTAND A REAL TRUE,a consecuences for what doing now,plan for

third term,but not thing a second will not end.Opposition are NOT dead,is start became stronger.Hold about legal illegals how many point will loose in a poll?plus higth taxes,ejecutives order,yes is to much power in a hand of a illegal negro president and allien,ignore a US.Constitution.A to much sweet revenge,but DEMs and liberal in general must will paid a big price.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1828500457 Vernon Clayson

Nonsense, the public is fickle and the news media loves him, they will make him sound like the most popular man in the world at his inauguration.
Mike

I still think there was just enough voter fraud to get this bum elected.
- ProudInfidel
  
  There wasn’t “just enough” there was a lot of it!!!
- keepersleeper
  
  I agree.
LAMan

Despite the Left’s strongest efforts to the contrary, the American public is developing the widespread opinion that our own Federal government is off the leash: chasing cats, snapping at kids, and turning over every garbage can in sight.
- johnkohlenberg
  
  Jamie Lee Curtis’s remark about his movie in killing all white people. I wonder what would happen if a white person made this same remark against black people.
  - dodger4754
    
    I believe you meant Jamie Foxx, the star of Django Unchained, which, although it is extremely violent and gory, is actually a comedy (believe it or not!).
http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Jr-Vanchieri/100000630756130 Joseph Jr Vanchieri

@Michael Michalak, What it means is Obama will come up against a steel wall if he actually tries to enforce or implement any of his so call “gun bans: by executive power”. Americans are slowly waking up to realize their freedoms are vanishing under this dictator wanna be. Yes Obama “won ” the election( stole it is more like it) but we still have the ‘Rule of Law ” ,the Constitution and the Bill of Rights on our side. Obama is delusional and those closest to him will start getting nervous and pull away. The thing we need to do is continue to pressure our elected officials to force Obama to abide by all these rules. The liberals pervert our rights by using them without any responsibility or fore thought. Yes we have rights but it they come with great responsibility.
- wandamurline
  
  Impeachment would be better.
- ltbl123
  
  The little dictator like all dictators has no fear of the law but some fear of the body politic. He will advance the circumventing of our rights protected under the Constitution as far as politically expediant, then back off just eneough to settle the people down then press on again in another area.
  
  We the people are divided on which freedoms deserve our support, the little dictator is one minded in the destruction of our liberty and quite willing to press his cause across divided fronts. For you, the right to bear arms may be your chief concern but not so much the overt trespass against the religious beliefs of business owners who are being forced to fund abortion under the guise of health care by the federal government. We need to remind ourselves the Bill of Rights belongs to every citizen young and old and when any of those freedoms are attacked all are equally threatened. Let us unite and close ranks in defense of all our Constitutionally protected liberties!
- sd
  
  Yup…..Keep the pressure on………
http://www.facebook.com/people/Paula-McCauley/100000091727661 Paula McCauley

I can’t believe this man has any popularity. From the majority of the post I see everyday, most people feel the same way I do, and I despise everything about Obama and his communist administration.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004511940386 Dana Preston
  
  That’s because the people who have Voted for him, MOST do NOT have a computer, or do NOT go to Conservative Sites, too busy drinking and doing illegal drugs. Their parents are on drugs too!
  Almost HALF the country is in that state, drugs, drinking too much, etc. They numb themselves from pain. I know too many of them that tell me going on the internet is more of a Right Nut case thing. And if they do go online they stick to Youtube (the silly stuff and liberal video’s) and Liberal sites ONLY. It’s ashame but that’s 49% of the people in Our Country. I try to go to those sites and try to inform and educate them on the constitution, bill of rights, Delclaration of independence, Facts, etc. but they curse me out. I ignore it and contiune. Maybe The Constitutional conservatives need to Stand United and approach this Websites TOO! Just maybe if they are outnumbered, they may change their thinking. They NOT getting it in School, Parents, Church, etc.
  - http://www.facebook.com/troy.crabb Troy Crabb
    
    I’ve found that you can’t win an argument with an idiot, and there’s a lot of them out there…They’ll just resort to cursing you or calling you a racist, ignoring the facts right in front of them. From my experience it’s hard to drag a Liberal from their unrealistic utopia.
  - http://twitter.com/RevBH69 Bob Helms
    
    and “running guns” Selling guns on the street corner like crack cocaine….
WellNowDear

This just means to me that 49% of the people are pretty dumb.
- ltbl123
  
  No the little dicatator got more than 49% so the stupification quota is larger.
- KayDeeBeau
  
  Just a personal illustration here – as I returned from the Guns Across America rally in Nashville – my 20 something neighbor kid was working on his – we exchanged pleasantries. I told him I was just coming back from the 2nd Amendment rally – he said which one is that?
  The really sad part is that he and I have had many converstaions – he is not an O supporter – he didn’t vote for O – but the idea that he has no clue about the bill of rights is extremely distressing.
  Get your kids out of the system – is cable TV, an iPhone, any THING – more important than the soul of your children?
  What I find even more sittrssing than my nieghbor not knowing what the 2nd Amendment is…
  There are too many parents who want stuff – “security”. comfort, money, acceptance, popularity, “me time” rather than doing the hard, responsible parent thing of what is hard fo you but best for your children.
  We are in this mess because too many of us have not stepped up – these clueless brats belong to us. The sooner we realize that the monsters that are low information voters are our children because we have relinquihed our responsibilties in the name of self fulfillment – the sooner we can save them
  - Bruce Feher
    
    That’s the public school system for you and that’s why at 64 I’m still working to send my grandson to a Lutheran School. NO UNIONS, OUTSTANDING TEACHERS!
    - sd
      
      Your are correct in saying the public school system is not perfect. Also in some states the union is too strong, but bottom line is parents have left education up to the system.
      They want someone else to take the full responsibility for raising and teaching their children not only academics but moral standards. Something that will never happen. Parents are afraid of offending their children so they neglect to give them tough love. They just keep giving them hand outs and not the reality of what it takes to live successfully and truly to be happy. They have made life way to easy for them. Just like our government making the handout way to easy.
      Its easy to blame teachers….that is a cop out
      
      Leonard Sax, M.D. Ph.D. Makes some very valid points about why kids are unmotivated…..I refer you to His book boys adrift……to begin with
  - WellNowDear
    
    Saturday, the day of the rally, while shopping I talked to a white man about 35-40. He thought owning a gun was a “privilege”. I corrected him in that driving was a privilege but, owning a firearm was a right guaranteed by the constitution. By the statements he made I could see he was basing his beliefs on what is shown by the liberal media and educational, propaganda masters. What an ignorant way to live.
    
    The propaganda machine has people convinced that what the gov does is right and good. Most of the evil is just barely hidden. If anyone looks a little it is there to see. Most people don’t look. They just accept what the gov says and think what they are told to think.
- jimmie smith
  
  No…. it means it’s the 49% you have too worry about…
- Dan Daly
  
  What that means is that the teachers unions will have to work harder at their Bolshevik plan to indoctrinate the masses and turn us all into morons. They started this project back in the sixties and if they are up to 49% they are well on their way to succeeding. The thing about Marxist Socialists is they do not have a fixed timetable , they are perfectly happy letting their grandchildren reap the reward. So domination if not this generation , the next or maybe the one after that , no difference to them
http://www.facebook.com/michael.michalak.98 Michael Michalak

it’s a little late to care about Obama’s popularity now! Since he won re-election, it’s a sure bet Obama doesn’t care either. He no longer needs the useful idiots to vote for him anymore, and even if he did, they could be counted on to line up to do it again, because, to them, the opposition is too dangerous to allow back in power.
- wandamurline
  
  He didn’t care before the election…it was a sure thing…this is why he was so lacking in the first debate…the fix was in….we got took.
  - keepersleeper
    
    I believe the election was rigged, stolen, however you want to describe it. Also, look how determined the democrats were to deny our overseas military to vote.
    - wandamurline
      
      I agree. There were over 100% of voters in some precincts and in some counties, there were 0 votes for Romney….that is just unrealistic. It is always said that the one counting the votes is the one that is in control. In 65 years, I have never, ever seen such a bunch of thieves, racists (liberal ones), corruption and liars as this bunch in Washington, with the exception of a few new comers. The Democrats have denied our military their votes for the last two elections…the same was done in 2008. This country is divided right down the middle….the left consisting of freebies, unqualified disability and long term unemployment benefits (sorry to the ones that are really looking for work), and the working, conservatives…we are headed for an explosion and now the progressive communists want our guns….ain’t gonna happen…We. The. People will simply not comply…a Rosa Parks moment when she decided she would not move to the back of the bus. The only reason they want to disarm us is so that they can “Control” the masses without resistance. Of course, all of them have bodyguards and their kids go to armed guard schools….because they and their kids are more important than the servants….and that is us people. Better wake up lest we become Austria in the 1930′s where they voted to allow Hitler to take over their country…within two years, their freedoms were gone, their guns were gone, their money was gone and so were they….they were gone to concentration camps. You had better believe that history repeats itself..WAKE UP.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Regina-Weiner/100001179896625 Regina Weiner
  
  Seeing how Americans of this generation have responded to other policy issues, I doubt that gun policy makes much difference to the average citizen. What I think will continue to wear on people is the President’s arrogant and dismissive manner whenever he speaks to them. Even if I agreed with President Obama about gun control (I do not), I would find his mannerisms and tone very irritating. I would think that now that I voted this guy back in office, he really doesn’t care what I or anyone else think.
  BTW–it’s something of a stretch to call a nine-percentage point drop a “plunge.”
  - http://www.facebook.com/tim.chew.52 Tim Chew
    
    “Obama enjoyed a 53% favorable rating, his numbers have crashed to 49%” When did 53-49 =9 point drop? But I agree, it is not a plunge. Wait till the next poll comes out after their first paycheck of 2013 with the higher withholding for ss.
    - keepersleeper
      
      …And I hope every idiot who voted for Obama gets hit HARD by the increase in ss…serves the entire country RIGHT for allowing this fraud to remain in office under ANY circumstances.
  - wandamurline
    
    You actually voted for him for another term? Did you really think he was going to keep his promises….you had four yers of his lies and you thought he was going to change. All I can say to you is thanks a lot for another four worse than the first. Maybe, you will get it together in 2014 and at least vote conservative for the senate and house because it the Democrats take both of those, America is doomed and you can kiss your freedoms goodbye.
- Commiefornia
  
  This really goes to show that the Republican establishment grossly miscalculated their nominee for president. Though Romney wasn’t my first, second or third choice I got behind him. But, if the Republican party got behind a candidate that posed a greater contrast to Obama than Romney a Republican would be in the White House now.
  - http://www.facebook.com/kelsee.rice Kelsee Rice
    
    No they wouldn’t ! The election was fixed from the start. tell me how 100% or better yet 108 % of the votes in 5 districts in Ohio were votes for obutthead ? You think that NOT ONE voter in any of those districts voted for Romney or some other ??? Welcome to the USSA God Bless!
    - wandamurline
      
      I believe that also and I believe that this is why Obama did such a poor job on the first debate….he knew it was fixed….heck, Spain was counting the votes. Electoral college needs to cease and the majority counts….it is totally unfair for five or six states to determine who will run as a candidate and who wins the presidency. Every state should have the same number of votes….it is not fair for Montana not to have the same number of votes as New York. I don’t care about the number of people living in New York….every state should have the same votes….elections would be a lot harder to rig if we could get these changes. Aren’t we in for equal treatment of all? That is what Obama says…of course, he is lying.

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