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Voters Believe Armed Citizens Offer Best Protection Against Mass Shootings


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Voters Believe Armed Citizens Offer Best Protection Against Mass Shootings

Majority Lack Confidence in Local Police or Federal Authorities to Stop Mass Shootings Before They Start  

(Austin, TX—July 18, 2022) Convention of States Action, in partnership with The Trafalgar Group—one of America’s most accurate pollsters in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2021—is releasing the results of a new national survey. Results were from surveys conducted July 7th through July 10th of over 1,000 likely 2022 election voters.

“Americans watched in horror as an active shooter was permitted to rampage through a school while the police stood outside and did absolutely nothing. Over and over again, citizens are given the clear message that—when it comes to protecting loved ones—you’re on your own. At the same time, we’re told guns are the problem and we should give up our right to self-defense,” said Mark Meckler, President of Convention of States Action. “Voters are not stupid. They understand that responsible citizens offer the best means of protecting our schools, homes, and communities in this country. Pursuing such policies is not only bad politics, it puts all of us at risk.”

For complete details on the poll, including graphics, please visit: https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/news/nat-issues-shootings-0712/

KEY INSIGHT: Plurality of American Voters Believe Armed Citizens Best Protection in Mass Shooting Event:

  • 41.8 percent of voters believe that an armed citizen would be their best protection if they were caught in a mass shooting event.
     
  • 25.1 percent of voters believe that local police would be their best protection if they were caught in a mass shooting event.

  • 10.3 percent of voters believe that federal agents would be their best protection if they were caught in a mass shooting event.

  • 22.8 percent said none of the above.

KEY INSIGHT: Majority of American Voters Say They are Not Confident Local Authorities Could Prevent a Mass Shooting Before it Happens:

  • 62.2 percent of voters say they are not confident their local law enforcement and government officials could identify and and stop a violent person before they started a mass shooting:
    • 35.3 percent say not very confident.
    • 26.9 percent say not confident at all.
  • 37.9 percent of voters say they are confident their local law enforcement and government officials could identify and and stop a violent person before they started a mass shooting:
    • 28.1 percent say somewhat confident
    • 9.8 percent say very confident

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About Convention of States Action—Boasting a grassroots network of over 5 million supporters and volunteers, Convention of States’ mission is to restore a culture of self-governance in America and to curtail federal overreach. Its primary focus in accomplishing this mission is using a limited Article V Convention to propose constitutional amendments that impose limitations on the size and scope of the federal government, including a balanced budget requirement and term limits for federal officials.

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA
Convention of states action

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