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More Americans Than Ever Support Stricter Gun Control Laws, Poll Finds
Time ^ | 2/20/18 | JAMIE DUCHARME

Posted on 02/21/2018 3:21:08 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

....support for stricter gun control laws is at an all-time high among American voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.

Those in favor of stricter gun legislation outnumber those opposed by a measure of more than two-to-one, according to the poll....

....among gun owners, with 50% in favor and 44% not, according to the poll....

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2a; 2ndamendment; banglist; bias; cruz; fakenews; fakepolls; fbi; guncontrol; guns; lyingpolls; media; nikolascruz; parkview; quinnipiac; secondamendment
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To: SoFloFreeper

That’s odd...the polls showing the popularity of Trump’s tax cut weren’t very newsworthy, but polls about gun control are.

Just another front in the Left’s never ending war on the Western way of life.


21 posted on 02/21/2018 4:25:06 AM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: ChiMark

With progressives the death penalty is reserved for the unborn.


22 posted on 02/21/2018 4:28:25 AM PST by Romans Nine
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To: SoFloFreeper
It's a sad day that one needs to refer to the WaPo for accurate polling, but "Many more Americans believe that mass shootings result from inadequate mental health care than those who think lax gun laws are to blame, according to a new poll from ABC News and the Washington Post."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/inaction-mass-shootings-mental-health-screening-priority-poll/story?id=53205008

Who thinks that if the police have been called to one's house 39 times, that the FBI has been warned twice and if one posts photos of freshly killed small animals on the internet that it shouldn't raise any interest on the part of authorities?

23 posted on 02/21/2018 4:29:35 AM PST by Sooth2222 (O'Rourke's Circumcision Precept: You can take 10 percent off the top of anything.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

“What we need is for Ginsberg and another commie lib to die so Trump can install 2 more pro 2nd-Amendment jurists on SCOTUS. Then they can take some of these cases where the right is infringed, and strike down the gun control as unconstitutional.”

SCOTUS just refused to hear an appeal of California’s 10 day waiting period. Thomas dissented. We need a couple more like him.


24 posted on 02/21/2018 4:32:20 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Sooth2222

“Who thinks that if the police have been called to one’s house 39 times, that the FBI has been warned twice and if one posts photos of freshly killed small animals on the internet that it shouldn’t raise any interest on the part of authorities? “

But don’t you dare inadvertently pick up an eagle feather or rip off your mattress tag....the feds will be all over you like shit flies on a democrat.


25 posted on 02/21/2018 4:35:43 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SoFloFreeper

How come they never ask me?


26 posted on 02/21/2018 4:39:04 AM PST by wetgundog (Mainstream Media, Lying Liars Lying.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

The Chicago Police have been defanged thanks to Rahm Emmanuel’s constant pandering to anti-police constituents and gun laws have not stopped the large scale of shootings and murders in this city.


27 posted on 02/21/2018 4:40:06 AM PST by ChiMark (America America)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I get the impression that since the Russia narrative is collapsing big time and that the FBI got exposed for far more that what they bargained, the fact that they could have likely easily stopped Cruz from committing the horrible act that he did last week could really be the final nail in the coffin concerning their credibility. That alone could be a very important impetus as to why there is this big “lights, camera, action” sort of thing going on now and it even has the son of a retired FBI agent as one of the primary participants.


28 posted on 02/21/2018 4:44:22 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: SoFloFreeper

And Hillary Clinton is our president because the polls assured us she couldn’t lose.


29 posted on 02/21/2018 4:53:59 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: SoFloFreeper

This was.the same exact poll that showed a 15 point lead on the generic ballot for Democrats.

It’s vastly out of step with other polls done on the same day. Even hard left ABC found no change on assault weapon ban from 2016.


30 posted on 02/21/2018 5:11:13 AM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

The left ignores precedent they don’t like. Heller and McDonald are settled law. Most lower courts have reinterpreted those precedents to support all sorts of gun restrictions.


31 posted on 02/21/2018 5:13:30 AM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: TexasGurl24
“....according to the poll....”..........

There they go again. I'd like to tell them where they can stuff their “poll” but FR is not the place for such words.

32 posted on 02/21/2018 5:16:48 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: SoFloFreeper

It’s the populous cities versus rural America. It seems the same in many social issues, populous cities versus the rest of the nation.


33 posted on 02/21/2018 5:20:59 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: jazzlite

... the infusion of the opinions of children 18 years old and under into the important decisions of how we should live and function as a nation is a fool’s dream...

Millennials, who often think like children will be running this country soon enough. We won’t recognize it at all when they are finished. The oldest millennials will be eligible age wise to run for President in 2020.


34 posted on 02/21/2018 5:21:44 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: goldstategop
"A fake poll put out by fake news."

Possibly not. Support for gun control has been falling for years, but there probably is a temporary uptick with the latest incident.

35 posted on 02/21/2018 5:23:19 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: SoFloFreeper
This weekend, at the gun show, I'll take a poll...I bet the poll for gun control will be <1%.... 😀
36 posted on 02/21/2018 5:26:53 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: SoFloFreeper

Well more Americans than ever are stupider! Chicago and Baltimore already have tough laws and the violence still occurs and it’s only going to get worse. We have government officials, cities and states actively breaking American laws, we have FBI and other agencies actively breaking laws. We have judges MAKING laws for Pete’s sake!

This country is so screwed up I would not be surprised if we went the way of Rome in my grand daughter’s lifetime or sooner.


37 posted on 02/21/2018 5:41:26 AM PST by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: SoFloFreeper

Cultural Marxism! ~ IT’S WORKING! ESPECIALLY MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!
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38 posted on 02/21/2018 6:18:13 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: goldstategop
Sure, Americans want to ban guns. Except they don’t.

So, they were for it before they were against it? M'kay MSM. Keep slingin' it.

39 posted on 02/21/2018 6:18:15 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should care less about who we may offend and care more about who we may inspire.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Laws such as? What law, whatever, ever stopped/prevented the crime the law was intended for? If all those laws were obeyed there’d be no prisons or fines.


40 posted on 02/21/2018 6:22:34 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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