Poll: 9 In 10 Americans Support Background Check For All Gun Sales
Source: NPR
Poll: 9 In 10 Americans Support Background Check For All Gun Sales
by EYDER PERALTA
February 07, 201312:16 PM
A new Quinnipiac University poll finds Americans overwhelmingly support background checks on all gun sales.
The poll found that 92 percent of Americans support the checks, while 7 percent oppose them.
Quinnipiac also found that 52 percent support stricter gun laws and 56 percent support "a ban on the sale of assault weapons."
Quinnipiac's Assistant Director Peter Brown explains:
"'There is no significant voter opposition to requiring background checks for gun buyers,' said Brown, 'and there is support for banning high volume ammunition clips and assault weapons, with the issue pretty much falling along party lines.
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Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/02/07/171383152/poll-9-in-10-americans-support-background-check-for-all-gun-sales
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)With safeguards to prevent it from being used for any purpose other than a background check for a firearm transfer.
Yes a legitimate background check vs data acquisition for future abuse.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)sir pball
(4,742 posts)Put in a price control (not $50 + 15% of cost as I was once quoted) and I'm perfectly fine with every transaction of mine being recorded for posterity.
As to 56% of respondents supporting an AWB, well, we aren't a direct democracy so until it's 56% of people in 60% of electoral districts across the country that idea is DOA.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Who live to poke holes in everyone's sincere suggestions, spin slippery-slope scenarios, or blame the carnage on red herrings.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)And by tolerant I mean wimpy in the face of right wing trolls who are literally laughing at us with their posting.
bucolic_frolic
(43,162 posts)will they filter out the drug users too?
You have to be sober to operate a vehicle.
RedCloud
(9,230 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)The poll asked the wrong question. The question is not about "if". The debate has always been about "how".
Some folks like the idea of every transaction going through an FFL.
Some folks like the idea of everyone getting access to the NICS system.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Not supporting it is extremist, to put it politely.
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)marshall
(6,665 posts)It should be at least as hard to buy a gun as it is to vote. When will the wingers see the light?