Poll: Support for stricter gun control wanes

CBS News ^ | March 26, 2013 | Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto and Fred Backus

[neverdem]

Soon after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced an assault weapons ban would not be part of a gun control bill, a new CBS News poll shows support for stricter gun control laws overall has dropped since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Currently, support for stricter gun control laws stands at 47 percent today, down from a high of 57 percent just after the shootings. Thirty-nine percent want those laws kept as they are, and another 11 percent want them made less strict.

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Partisans hold different views on gun control laws: 52 percent of Republicans want the laws kept as they are, while 66 percent of Democrats want stricter laws (down from 78 percent in February). Half of gun owners themselves want gun laws overall kept as they are, but a quarter call for stricter laws.

Women (55 percent) are more likely than men (39 percent) to want stricter laws, as are those living in the Northeast. Only 44 percent in the Midwest and South want stricter laws; 47 percent in the West.

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This poll was conducted by telephone from March 20-24, 2013 among 1,181 adults nationwide. Phone numbers were dialed from samples of both standard land-line and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups may be higher. This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.

© 2013 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.

[neverdem]

I think the dems (and betrayer re-puke-licans) in the senate are waiting to sign the UN small arms treaty. They know they can’t come in the front door and will try to use the back door.

Senate votes 53-46 to stop US from joining UN Arms Trade Treaty

Thanks Laz!

[TEXOKIE]

Senate votes 53-46 to stop US from joining UN Arms Trade Treaty

Thank God...andI appreciate the report!

[CottShop]

[[support for stricter gun control laws stands at 47 percent today,]]

Swell, so nearly one half of our population are clueless Yuppy idiots who think that the police will always arrive in time to save them and their family from all harm- And this is supposed to be good news? I’m willing to bet that back in colonial times only a small minority were stupid enough to think that not owning guns made people safer- Our country is slowly slipping into stupidty

[matt04]

At one local gun store in CT where according to one poll something like 75-90% of the state supposedly supports strict gun control they have had to add a second pistol permit class for two each week. Even with that there is a two week wait.

[1Old Pro]

which is why nys cuomo passed a law in one day to outlaw 10 clip mags in his safe act. now my .22 is worthless - how does that stop crime?