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kpete

(71,991 posts)
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 01:38 PM Feb 2013

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

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Poll: 9 In 10 Americans Support Background Check For All Gun Sales (Original Post) kpete Feb 2013 OP
Me too. Make NICS available for use by the general public. slackmaster Feb 2013 #1
+1 Remmah2 Feb 2013 #14
Damn Liberals! nt onehandle Feb 2013 #2
I'll go one further and make every sale via FFL sir pball Feb 2013 #3
Sometimes it appears that 7% are all regular DU Gungeon posters. maxsolomon Feb 2013 #4
Just goes to show how tolerant DU has become over the past 12 years Ash_F Feb 2013 #6
Hey bucolic_frolic Feb 2013 #5
What? No more gunorrhea from the right? RedCloud Feb 2013 #7
They can't make the RW bullshit they push sound plausible anymore. baldguy Feb 2013 #8
No surprise there, most folks have always thought background checks are a good idea. ManiacJoe Feb 2013 #9
Seems like a reasonable request. Quantess Feb 2013 #10
Commie gun grabbers! myrna minx Feb 2013 #11
Gun sale vs Voting marshall Feb 2013 #12
Universal background checks simply make sense. nt hack89 Feb 2013 #13
 

slackmaster

(60,567 posts)
1. Me too. Make NICS available for use by the general public.
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 01:42 PM
Feb 2013

With safeguards to prevent it from being used for any purpose other than a background check for a firearm transfer.

sir pball

(4,742 posts)
3. I'll go one further and make every sale via FFL
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 01:56 PM
Feb 2013

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)
4. Sometimes it appears that 7% are all regular DU Gungeon posters.
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 01:58 PM
Feb 2013

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)
6. Just goes to show how tolerant DU has become over the past 12 years
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 09:12 AM
Feb 2013

And by tolerant I mean wimpy in the face of right wing trolls who are literally laughing at us with their posting.

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
9. No surprise there, most folks have always thought background checks are a good idea.
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 11:44 PM
Feb 2013

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.

marshall

(6,665 posts)
12. Gun sale vs Voting
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 08:55 AM
Feb 2013

It should be at least as hard to buy a gun as it is to vote. When will the wingers see the light?

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