Posted on 11/19/2015 1:54:01 PM PST by markomalley
A new poll on gun rights in Washington, D.C., released Thursday shows a sharp divide along racial and economic lines with affluent whites favoring a gun ban and poorer black residents opposing it.
The survey of 1,005 D.C. residents, conducted by the Washington Post between November 12 and 15, found a bare majority of D.C. residents—51 percent— support banning all guns, while nearly as many—47 percent—oppose it.
The Post‘s analysis of the respondents’ racial and economic background show a gun ban is most popular among white residents and least popular among black residents. The paper also found that 67 percent of whites with college degrees supported the idea of a ban, 5 percent more than whites in general.
Sixty-one percent of those making more than $100,000 per year supported the ban—whose racial makeup was not specified—while only about 40 percent of those making less than $50,000 did.
They also found that younger, newer residents of the city supported a gun ban at a higher rate than the general population.
Despite the bare majority of support for a gun ban, the poll found that a bare plurality, 43 percent, said such a ban wouldn’t make a difference in making the city safer. Forty-two percent said a ban would make the city safer. Twelve percent said it would make the city less safe and 3 percent had no opinion.
One resident the Post spoke with said a gun ban would violate the Second Amendment and guns aren’t to blame for gun violence. “Isn’t that in the…the 2nd Amendment, no they shouldn’t ban guns,” Idriis Bilaal, 88, a resident of D.C. who lives north of Capitol Hill, told the paper. “Guns don’t kill nobody, they just lay there. A man should be able to own a gun if he wants to. It doesn’t mean he has to use it wrongly.”
In particular, black residents that live in areas of D.C. that have experienced a 50 percent increase in robberies at gunpoint this year, were the least supportive of an outright ban.
The Supreme Court employed similar reasoning when it struck down the city’s total ban on handgun ownership in 2009, making the constitutionality of any new gun ban in the city highly questionable. The District’s current gun laws have faced a number of recent setbacks in the last two years with federal courts declaring them unconstitutional three different times. The city’s gun carry law is awaiting a hearing on its constitutionality in federal circuit court later this year.
So...Ebola’s divided on the issue, then?
I think the White ones are the uber liberals that have drank the Obama Kool Ade and with their white guilt would walk to the oven for him.
The Blacks, they have figured it out.
JMHO.
Liberal Idiocy- Point #11
Gun Control: Criminals don’t follow laws, so why would a silly law deter them from getting guns?
I hate, really despise “gentry” liberals.
Since DC is insane, they should pass a law where whites are prevented from owning guns, but blacks are allowed. Strange twist of the 2nd amendment, but if that is what they want, give it to them. Imagine the consequences.
They have said the average IQ is lower among blacks than whites. I would venture to say in this case the opposite is true.
No being on the planet more stupider than a white liberal.
Racist to keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding blacks.
You and I are fully agreed on that. Also nobody more dangerous.
Zombie nailed them a long time ago in a column.
GUN CONTROL
Progressive position:
Restrict access to guns as much as possible; ultimately ban and confiscate them all.
False public rationale offered by progressives to justify their position:
Gun violence is a scourge on society; easy access to killing machines unnecessarily facilitates murder and crime.
Conservatives' inaccurate theory of progressives' real intent:
Progressives want to disarm the populace to prevent armed resistance to the eventual imposition of a leftist totalitarian police state.
The actual racist origins of the progressive stance:
White urban liberals are deathly afraid of black gangbangers with guns, but are ashamed to admit this publicly, so to mask their racist fears they try to ban guns for everyone, as a way of warding off the perception that their real goal is to target blacks specifically.
Gun control is RAAAAAACIST.
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The white ones are rich liberals with government jobs in safe neighborhoods.
Never occurred to me before, but I think you nailed it.
***found a bare majority of D.C. residents—51 percent— support banning all guns, while nearly as many—47 percent—oppose it.***
Reminds me of California’s Prop 15 back in 1982 to ban handguns in that state. Polls showed the proposition would pass! Handgun Control Inc was elated! The Bradys were already popping the Champagne corks and planning to head for Florida to get handguns banned there! VICTORY WAS ASSURED!
The night before, CBS had an hour long anti-gun special program to make sure the law passed!
Then the vote was held. The law was SOUNDLY defeated! The polls lied.
Since that day the law makers have never allowed citizens to vote on a firearm proposal since, and have spent hours of overtime on finding nit-picking ways around the defeat by the voters.
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_15,_Handgun_Registration_Initiative_%281982%29
People today have forgotten this vote was ever held back in 1982.
>> White urban liberals are deathly afraid of black gangbangers with guns, but are ashamed to admit this publicly, so to mask their racist fears they try to ban guns for everyone, as a way of warding off the perception that their real goal is to target blacks specifically. <<
Nah. I don’t buy it. Other wise they wouldn’t be going after “assault weapons,” first, but rather handguns, since that’s what criminals use almost exclusively.
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