Government priorities: Only 28% of Americans Consider Gun Control a Top Priority, Despite MSNBC, CNN, and CBS Reporting Otherwise

Poll results:

Examining the results of a new Washington Post poll, the Post’s Chris Cilizza in  his The Fix blog noted  today that Americans believe the national debt and the federal government’s  chronic deficit spending are greater issues than gun regulation.  In fact,  only 28 percent of Americans, including a paltry 41 percent of Democrats, feel  the gun control issue requires urgent attention:

If Americans really believe that the national debt and the federal governments chronic deficit spending are such big issues, why in the world did they vote for Obama?

Have the attitudes towards gun control of the “common citizen” changed since the Sandy Hook massacre?

In other words, parents of young children are not significantly more pro-gun  control or anti-gun control after Newtown as their fellow Americans without  kids. The way the media are spinning things, you’d think the political climate  has shifted such that parents of small children are most of all clamoring for  more stringent gun regulation.

It’s all too clear that the major media outlets in the U.S. are clamoring  for gun control, buoyed by President Obama’s reelection and ghoulishly  capitalizing from day one on the horrendous atrocity wrought by a disturbed  young man who killed his own mother to acquire the weapons he used to kill  innocent children and their teachers. (emphasis added – Ed)

Yes, it is, and no surpise either.