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CBS News Poll: Will gun violence increase in the next decade?
cBSnews.com ^ | 3/13/2016 | unknown

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; guncontrol
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Seems like the lies and falsehoods and the msm have done pretty well in mis-informing the masses. But that's what they do right? But there is this at the end of the article concerning the poll results to make us feel better about the polling data:

"This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls."

I'm sure you feel better now. :>)

1 posted on 03/13/2016 9:08:56 AM PDT by rktman
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Guns are not violent, but criminals can be.


2 posted on 03/13/2016 9:12:10 AM PDT by GregoTX
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Will gun violence increase in the next decade?

I think ‘gun defense against violence’ will increase.


3 posted on 03/13/2016 9:13:06 AM PDT by Enduro Guy
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To: rktman

Not all "gun violence" is bad!

(Some folks just need shootin'...)

4 posted on 03/13/2016 9:13:38 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah: Satan's current alias. "Obama": Allah's current ally...)
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To: rktman

The MSM plays a huge part in creating and defining national perceptions. They just don’t promote truth.


5 posted on 03/13/2016 9:15:52 AM PDT by umgud
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What a stupid poll!


6 posted on 03/13/2016 9:16:13 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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Who the hell knows. What is the purpose of this asinine poll.

What we do know....is that Obama has caused more riots than anyone since the governor of Alabama.

7 posted on 03/13/2016 9:16:46 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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I expect knife, hammer and baseball bat violence to also increase. It’s all part of Obonzo’s fundamentally deformed Amerika.


8 posted on 03/13/2016 9:16:50 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a dump, sewer or "refugee" camp. It's my home.)
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One in five owns 10 guns? Where I come from that is a piker.


9 posted on 03/13/2016 9:17:15 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: GregoTX

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.


10 posted on 03/13/2016 9:17:37 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("You'd see a different game if nobody wore a helmet". NY Rangers' Barry Beck 1983)
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To: rktman

Why would anyone that owns a gun participate in this poll, unless it was to just say no?


11 posted on 03/13/2016 9:19:42 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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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.


12 posted on 03/13/2016 9:19:57 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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Will gun violence increase in the next decade?

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.

13 posted on 03/13/2016 9:20:53 AM PDT by Mr Apple ( COULTER on Hillary defending child rapist Thomas Taylor www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdkTqkLbL_4)
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Gun violence will certainly increase in the immediate future.


14 posted on 03/13/2016 9:21:47 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to meand over an is worthless." - Scalia)
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Slightly more than one-third of Americans (38%) lives in a gun-owning household, while 59% do not.

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.

15 posted on 03/13/2016 9:22:41 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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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.


16 posted on 03/13/2016 9:23:03 AM PDT by Rapscallion (You are correct. It IS a conspiracy, not a bad dream.)
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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.


17 posted on 03/13/2016 9:24:30 AM PDT by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: rktman; null and void; Nextrush; Lazamataz

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.


18 posted on 03/13/2016 9:26:14 AM PDT by disndat
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To: Awgie

Hey now. It conformed to the polling standards of some ersatz board. LOL!


19 posted on 03/13/2016 9:28:08 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Grams A

Guns? Never heard of them.


20 posted on 03/13/2016 9:29:02 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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