Vote or Shut the Hell Up

[DougC]

From the title you can expect an epic screen rant from Washington Gun Law channel. He makes many valid points including the under 400 vote loss Brandon Herrera (TX District 23) suffered in primary. Just a few more gun owners voting for him would have made a difference.

The channel discusses recent New York Post story that 10,000,000 gun owners don't vote. I trust members of this forum do vote, but who are these others not upholding their civic duty. PEW Research for recent elections shows that

The elections of 2018, 2020 and 2022 were three of the highest-turnout U.S. elections of their respective types in decades. About two-thirds (66%) of the voting-eligible population turned out for the 2020 presidential election – the highest rate for any national election since 1900.

And one third don't vote which include many gun owners.

 

[jimbo]

From the title you can expect an epic screen rant from Washington Gun Law channel. He makes many valid points including the under 400 vote loss Brandon Herrera (TX District 23) suffered in primary. Just a few more gun owners voting for him would have made a difference.

The channel discusses recent New York Post story that 10,000,000 gun owners don't vote. I trust members of this forum do vote, but who are these others not upholding their civic duty. PEW Research for recent elections shows that

The elections of 2018, 2020 and 2022 were three of the highest-turnout U.S. elections of their respective types in decades. About two-thirds (66%) of the voting-eligible population turned out for the 2020 presidential election – the highest rate for any national election since 1900.

And one third don't vote which include many gun owners.

The strongest powers we have is prayer and voting!

 

[Shady]

The strongest powers we have is prayer and voting!

And some would say at this time neither will do anything or have any effects.

dont get me wrong I vote every election no matter how big or small.

 

[DougC]

Read more at Bearing Arms blog

Nearly all Americans claim gun policy is a factor in their 2024 vote for President.

Those are the results of the latest CBS News/YouGov poll released on Sunday. The poll had Kamala Harris three points ahead of Donald Trump nationwide, and the pair tied in battleground states. It found that 88 percent of likely voters rated guns as a factor in how they planned to vote, with only 12 percent saying guns weren’t a factor at all in their vote.

Gun policy ranked in the middle of the pack when it came to issue importance. More respondents said guns were a major factor in their vote than abortion or the border. However, issues like the economy and the state of democracy ranked higher in the minds of voters than gun policy.
Except that earlier today, the NRA ran a piece about just how many hunters and gun owners aren't even registered to vote.

Recently released data from Vote4America indicates 10 million hunters and gun owners in the United States are not registered to vote. The figures, according to a New York Post article, “…show that if Republicans don’t address political apathy among their gun-owning base in key swing states, they’ll have far fewer voters in their arsenal to score victories this November.”