Reply #28: 54% of Americans want stricter guns, only 11% want less strict gun laws [View All]

The Gallup Poll. Oct. 11-14, 2004. N=1,012 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.

"In general, do you feel that the laws covering the sale of firearms should be made more strict, less strict, or kept as they are now?".

10/11-14/04
54% More strict
11% Less strict
34% Kept the same

<http://www.pollingreport.com/guns.htm>This website has dozens of recent polls about gun regulation and in almost all of them the majority of Americans want stronger gun regulation.

Here's another poll

Poll: Majority of Americans favor stricter gun control

By Keating Holland/CNN

April 12, 2000
Web posted at: 6:07 p.m. EDT (2207 GMT)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Six in ten Americans believe that laws covering the sale of firearms should be more stringent than they are now, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Wednesday.

The latest survey results represent a slight drop from the days immediately following the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, but no change at all from earlier last year -- indicating that the Columbine tragedy has had no lasting effect on Americans' attitudes toward gun control legislation.

Poll results indicate little distinction between parents of young children and adults with no young children -- but there are big differences between men and women.

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<http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/04/12/poll.guns/>

Let's just quit fighting for sensible gun regulation. Let's quit fighting for gay rights, Let's quit fighting for a woman's right to choose. Let's quit quit fighting for labor unions. Let's quit fighting for civil rights for minorities. Let's just quit being progressive becuase white christian men in red states will be offended. The reality is that all this progun BS on Democratic forums is too marginalize the women, minorities and urban dwellers who are even stronger in their desire for stronger weapons regulation and enforcement.