CNN/ORC Poll, June 16-19, 2016

[yallerdawg]

Do you favor or oppose stricter gun control laws?

Favor/Oppose
55%/42%

A background check on anyone attempting to purchase
a gun in order to determine whether the prospective
buyer has been convicted of a felony?

Favor/Oppose
92%/8%

Preventing certain people, such as convicted felons or
people with mental health problems, from owning guns

Favor/Oppose
87%/12%

Preventing people who are on the U.S. government’s
Terrorist Watchlist or no-fly list from owning guns

Favor/Oppose
85%/14%

Preventing all Americans from owning guns

Favor/Oppose
9%/90%

Shootings like the one in Orlando will happen
again regardless of what action is taken by
government and society

52% agree

Shootings like the one in Charleston will happen
again regardless of what action is taken
by government and society

64% agree

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2016/images/06/20/cnn_orc_poll_june_20.pdf

[Agschmid]

1. Kick.

[LonePirate]

2. 9% is a start. We just need to keep building that support in the years to come, which seems certain.

[yallerdawg]

4. Those last three?

An appalling sense of resignation and hopelessness.

We'd like to stop it...but we can't.

That's why we have to break the legislative logjam!

We have to pass something - anything! - to end the hopelessness!

[Iliyah]

3. The GOPs are evil

[Walk away]

5. So most Americans are rational until half of them vote.

[yallerdawg]

6. Isn't it closer to half...

of the half of eligible voters who actually vote?

Democrats and Democratic values win when we turn out!

That's why 'the right' does everything it can think of to suppress our vote -- including feeding our hopelessness and our sense of futility and despair in the face of government and institutional failure that THEY create and promote.

[HereSince1628]

7. It's unfortunate one item includes convicted felons and persons with mental disorders

because I'm pretty sure it would show people favor limiting guns to the mentally ill more than convicted felons.

I also find it generally informing about American attitudes that the equation between dangerousness of convicted felons and persons with mental disorders isn't something that producers at CNN would edit out as it is the sort of badly formed question that people other than push-pollers are trained to avoid.

Again and again the evidence comes back that the majority of mental disorders present no elevation in dangerousness. Again and again the evidence comes back that violence in the general population is about 5% and the occurrence of violence among persons with -serious- mental disorders is shy of 7%.

And yet roughly half of the discussion of mental disorder on television information sources is about the dangerousness of mental illness.