Question: would you vote for a candidate who supported an assault weapons ban but was anti-choice?

[brooklynite]

How about someone who wanted to cut taxes for the upper class?

Or someone who wanted to expel all undocumented aliens?

If the answer is "no", you now understand why gun control legislation doesn't pass despite its reported popularity.

Bottom line: a large majority support gun control. But they don't support it ENOUGH.

Pro-gun voters are a minority of the electorate, but they are a COMMITTED minority. Opposing gun regulations is their first and frequently only priority, and thus their influence among Republicans is significantly increased.

Unless you can find pro-gun control voters who feel the same way, the odds of any substantial changes in gun policies is limited.

[madaboutharry]

1. No.

[dsc]

2. There are people who are coming around to that though

I can't give a definitive answer since it would be complicated (what office, is it a primary or a general, etc) but the fact is the number of people who are fed up with rivers of blood in our street is growing.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. No.

[Shermann]

4. So basically a Republican who is a center-left on guns?

Not for President, but perhaps as candidate for some other office.

Also there aren't many (any?) of those around.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. No

Freedom to have control over one's own physical body is the most fundamental freedom there is to protect. Gun violence is tragic and we can do more to stop it, but a women's basic freedom of self is more important than virtually anything to me.

[Miguelito Loveless]

6. No.

That candidate is voting to oppress 50% of the population.

[Dial H For Hero]

7. No, but I would happily vote for one who was against an assault weapons ban and was pro-choice.

[hlthe2b]

8. Personally "anti-abortion" or dedicated to political anti-choice policies?

The former, yes. The latter, hell no.