Democrats are losing their way in America.

^ Typo: "Some of the countries with the worst crime rates have too strict* gun laws such as Mexico." Civilians aren't allowed to have guns. Sorry about that. First, your point about "teens have premarital sex" is invalid. The article you cited was about whether people thought it was morally wrong or right for adults to have premarital sex. Second, may I remind you that Huffington post is far from moderate. Most of their readers are liberals, and therefore, more likely to want to legalize weed. "In fact if you look at that poll, more Americans are in favor of unconditional abortions then those who think abortion should be illegal under all circumstances, while over half the nation is absolutely fine with restricted abortion. " You clearly miss my point about how I believe in restricted abortion, but let me re-iterate that I agree with Romney on restricted abortion. Also, even though much of this country is Democrat, conservatism still reigns dominate, thankfully. http://www.gallup.com... We can only conclude that many conservatives, unlike many liberals understand that they should not be associated with the filth of a big party like the GOP or the Democrats and have switched to being independent. Just to remind everyone who believes the media that Obama is fixing the economy, you are far from representing the majority. http://www.rasmussenreports.com... Only 29% percent of Americans believe we are going in the right direction. These 29% either have not visited a gas station in six years, not bought milk or groceries six years, or do not have internet access. Any of these are possible. Background checks should become a national requirement. Democrats, bless them, do not want only background checks, they would eventually like to make us a country where the civilians are unarmed. That poll was right after Newtown, of course it was going to be higher because the country was still buzzing about it. Now, if there was a poll, it would not have 62% of people wanting to ban semi-automatic weapons. It would be higher than before Newtown, but it would most likely not be as high as 62%. Guns have saved plenty of innocent lives. One tragedy, no matter how tragic, should not indefinitely guide our policies. We should make changes to prevent this, but to ban semi-automatic weapons...? Pointless. Now I have a question for you, because most liberals are stumped by this. Many criminals get their guns illegally off the black market, what do we do about them? The black market can't be controlled like a gun shop. "Meanwhile the Democratic party supports many things that the majority of Americans also support, including weed legalization, abortion, drone strikes, semi-auto weapons bans, background checks, other forms of gun control, LGBT rights, and a whole mess of other things as well....." First of all, I can guarantee you that no matter what poll you look at, the truth is the majority of people do not want weed legalized other than for medicinal purposes. Who is arguing about keeping abortion, only restricting it. The way it is now, a woman who has no job can have as much unprotected sex as she wants and she can go to a clinic and, on the taxpayers' money by the way, get an abortion. The majority of Americans do not want semi-auto weapons bans. Your only poll presented was right after Newtown, as I said earlier. Background checks are something that both sides (minus tea partiers) want. Other forms of gun control? What does that entail, specifically? I believe background/mental checks and bans on high capacity magazines will suffice. Many Republicans support gay rights, in fact 49% of young Republicans do, as do I. http://publicreligion.org... We have a long way to go, as does the Democrat party, but neither are where they should be. I dislike how Democrats keep pointing to the Tea Party and calling them radicals yet Progressives are held with the upmost respect. I find them both repulsive. -Al Carter