Yes with some exceptions; Bernie Goetz remains famous to this day because he defended himself from petty crime with an illegal weapon and people took his side. But they were generally in favor of restrictions on gun ownership, and the gun rights movement took off in a big way around the same time that the large drop in crime in American cities occurred.
Voted "yes".
Excellent point. Explains clearly why once crime declined the Republicans could focus on gun control much more and gain some rural white areas in Appalachia and the Midwest that were loyal even to
George McGovern. In the 1970s and 1980s the Republicans were more focused on crime control – not an issue in white rural areas with very low crime rates – but they switched very effectively to gun control after crime did decline and mass incarceration removed the potentially serious political threat of an urban nonwhite community predominantly supporting radical left parties who would cap the income of millionaires at less than $100,000 (which is probably the policy which many nonwhite prisoners would prefer).
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