Posted on 03/13/2016 9:08:56 AM PDT by rktman
Nearly half of Americans (47%) think gun violence will increase in the U.S. over the next ten years, according to a new CBS News poll released Sunday. Just 14% think gun violence will decrease.
Americans differ on what causes gun violence. The availability of guns and current gun laws is the top answer -- particularly among Democrats -- though lack of gun training, crime, mental health issues, moral values, and other causes are also volunteered by many Americans.
Slightly more than one-third of Americans (38%) lives in a gun-owning household, while 59% do not. The majority of those in gun-owning households (57%) think their guns make their households safer, while those who do not own a gun are more skeptical (with only 22% believing that owning a gun makes you safer).
Protection (31%) and hunting (27%) are the most-sited reasons Americans own guns; and most Americans who live in a gun-owning household own more than one gun (one in five own at least 10).
Most gun owners have had some type of formal training on how to operate their firearms, though most have not had training in the past ten years. One in five has never had formal training.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
"This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls."
I'm sure you feel better now. :>)
Guns are not violent, but criminals can be.
Will gun violence increase in the next decade?
I think ‘gun defense against violence’ will increase.
(Some folks just need shootin'...)
The MSM plays a huge part in creating and defining national perceptions. They just don’t promote truth.
What a stupid poll!
What we do know....is that Obama has caused more riots than anyone since the governor of Alabama.
I expect knife, hammer and baseball bat violence to also increase. It’s all part of Obonzo’s fundamentally deformed Amerika.
One in five owns 10 guns? Where I come from that is a piker.
My sentiments exactly. Outlets like CBS News will often cite my country as an example of gun control success. However, in the days (Firearms Acquisition Certificates were introduced only in 1979) when you could simply walk into a decent sporting goods or department store and buy a decent hunting rifle or shotgun plus cartridges or shells with no questions asked other than being at least sixteen years of age, Canadian violent crime rates were even lower than they are today.
Why would anyone that owns a gun participate in this poll, unless it was to just say no?
The liberal culture’s contradictions between beliefs and reality are literally driving people mad. You can’t expect people to live in the real world when you’re creating expectations based on complete fantasy.
With all the murderous, rapist Islamic Muslims now here -and with scumbag Islamic Muslim Obama flying in another 170,000 -Muslims in our country might begin to fall.
The number of gun-owning households is MUCH higher. I, for one, would answer "HELL no, I don't own a gun" if asked by some pollster.
I see Obama’s threats, anti-Americanism, and partisanship as the cause of the people arming themselves. So to predict violence ahead seems disingenuous. Obama has been the greatest personal weapons’ salesman in history.
Since I suspect that half of the people here don’t even know the correct answer, I’ll pose the question:
“What is the most effective way to prevent gun violence?”
Answer: Put felons in jail.
I am sure gun violence will increase. Especially on the part of the JBTs. Take the Lavoy Finicum case for example. I think the FBI profiled him (they do this best), as well as other members involved in that standoff. They identified Finicum’s triggers. The made up a scenario and executed it perfectly resulting in the OSP doing their (the FBI’s) dirty work by murdering Finicum.
As the Police State increases its powers, more penguins are going to jump off the floe, like Finicum.
And if Trump wins the day, the rhetoric will become battle cries. Literally.
Hey now. It conformed to the polling standards of some ersatz board. LOL!
Guns? Never heard of them.
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