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« More on Red's Trading Post | Main | Transcript Supreme Court argument »

Support for gun laws dropping

Posted by David Hardy · 11 October 2007 09:04 AM

An interesting post on polling data over the years. Support for gun laws took a significant hit right after 9/11.

Here's the polling data. Gallup notes that the spread between "we need stricter gun laws" and "we don't, or need less strict ones" was once around 60 points, fell to 14 points a year ago, and now stands at 4 points. On whether handguns should be banned, the "no" vote was 50% two decades ago, 68% today. The conclusion:

"Gun control has not surfaced as a major -- or even a minor -- issue thus far in the 2008 presidential campaign. The most that's been said is that the issue is hardly even being debated. The Gallup trends reviewed help to explain why. With public support for stricter gun laws waning after 9/11, the political climate for championing gun control is indeed different from when the Brady Bill was passed in 1993. Although half of Americans do say they favor stricter gun laws today, this is well below the 70% found in 1993. And when public attitudes about banning guns and enforcement are probed, there appears to be even less public demand for gun control."

2 Comments | Leave a comment

The Mechanic | October 11, 2007 6:41 PM | Reply

You don't want a gun, don't own a gun. I have one or two. My guns have killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car.

Harry Schell | October 15, 2007 10:48 AM | Reply

Someone needs to contact the Governor of CA about his signature on the microstamping bill, a genuine piece of bad public policy, a bill promoted to decrease access to semi-auto handguns in CA while pretending to be a crime-fighting measure. The purported benefits are easily proven a hoax, leaving only an attempted gun ban as the rationale.

Criminals are chuckling.

I guess Hizzoner has eyes on his next job in politics and feels he has to run far to the left to get it. FAR FAR to the left.

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