Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Large Majority of Americans—Including Gun Owners—Support Stronger Gun Safety Policies

Johns Hopkins

Support for requiring background checks for all gun sales remained high, with 85 percent of gun owners and 83 percent of non-owners favoring the policy. In the 2013 survey, 84 percent of gun owners and 90 percent of non-owners supported background checks for all gun sales. Support for banning assault weapons among all respondents decreased from 69 percent in 2013 to 63 percent in 2015, and support for banning the sale of large capacity ammunition magazines decreased from 68 percent to 60 percent. Notably, the small erosion in support for these policies occurred almost entirely among non-gun-owners.

The 2015 national survey was conducted two years from the date the 2013 survey was fielded, and used the same sampling approach and survey research firm, GfK. The latest survey included 1,326 respondents, while 2013 survey included 2,703 participants.

More than 11,000 people in the United States are killed each year as a result of gun homicides, and the firearm homicide rate in the U.S. is seven times higher than in the average high-income country.

7 comments:

  1. “All too often, pollsters ask Americans whether they support more or less gun control, or frame gun policies as controls on gun ownership generally rather than as measures to keep guns from criminals or other high-risk groups,” Barry says. “When you drill down to specific policies, you see that Americans are very much in support of common-sense regulations to keep their families and communities safe from gun violence.”

    If this were true, then all that would be required is to introduce the legislation and the laws would be passed because what politicians really listen to is the voters in their respective districts. When a politician fails to listen to the voters, they run the risk of being out of a job come the next election, or in some states even sooner through the recall process available in some states. I believe we saw three politicians in Colorado learn that the hard way.
    Minnesota is a fairly liberal state, the last time the state's electoral votes was I believe when Nixon ran. Two years ago, legislation was introduced for an assault weapon ban AND universal background checks, and neither passed.

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    1. Lobby money speaks pretty loudly to the politicos to, doen't it?

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    2. The voters don't care about life baby money. If your elected representative doesn't vote according to your wishes, will any number of election ads make you vote for the guy?
      Keep in mind that lobby groups represent voters, which is what makes politicians listen to the lobbyist. However politicians, if they want the keep their jobs, pay close attention to constituents who contact them since they are the ones who make the final decision as to whether they get to stay in office.

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  2. 1326 respondents ...Just more BS from the Bloomberg School Of Public Health And Manipulation

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    1. Of course it's BS when you don't like what it says.

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    2. You know very well that I think all polls and surveys are BS Mike so stop with the Gotcha BS

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