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In reply to the discussion: What are you going to do this week to support expanded background checks? [View all]BainsBane
(54,094 posts)Last edited Fri Sep 20, 2013, 12:50 AM - Edit history (1)
and then I realize your friends down under featured it.
Amazingly, adopting a position supported by 94% of the population is not extremist. Rather, opposing background checks puts you among only 6% of the nation. I was going to say with the Tea Party, but I see below that even a majority of them support expanded background checks. Opponents of background checks are to the right of the Tea Party. Mull that one over.
I don't know how all these months you've managed to avoid reading a single opinion poll, but you have succeeded in maintaining the fiction that opposing background checks is anything but highly reactionary. So here's are two polls for you to pretend don't exist or argue that it's biased because it was sponsored by a labor union and a left-wing blog. (edited to add a new poll from CNN)
1)POLL: Americans overwhelmingly approve of background checks for gun purchases
Do you favor or oppose background checks on potential gun buyers?
Favor 94%
Oppose 6%
Source: CNN/Opinion Research Corp.
Date conducted: 1/14/2011 - 1/16/2011
Sample: 1,014 adults
Margin of error: +/- 3% pts
More About: CNN , Gun Control , Issue , Opinion Research
According to This Poll
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/pollingcenter/polls/2451
http://www.dailykos.com/polling/2012/12/18/US/148/DON5k
I realize you likely won't click on it since the bright light of reality is too much to bear, so I'll reproduce the key numbers here. ( I know. Polls are the devil's work. You can't trust them. They are all part of a vast liberal plot to inform the public, along with that horrible research on gun violence. First come education, then knowledge, and then they come for your guns.)
2)
Support Oppose Not sure
All 92 6 2
Women 92 5 2
Men 91 6 2
Democrat 94 4 2
Republican 94 4 2
Independent/Other 87 10 3
Liberal 93 6 1
Moderate 91 7 2
Conservative 92 5 3
White 92 5 2
African-American 90 8 2
Asian 100 0 0
Hispanic 89 8 3
Other 89 10 1
Tea Party 93 5 2
Non Tea Party 91 7 2
Not sure 93 4 3
Union household 91 7 2
Non-union household 92 5 2
18 to 29 91 8 2
30 to 45 89 9 2
46 to 65 93 5 2
Older than 65 93 3 4
Northeast 93 5 2
Midwest 91 7 2
South 93 5 2
West 90 6 3
Did not complete high school 89 9 1
High school graduate 93 4 2
Some college/Associate degree 92 7 2
College graduate 91 6 3
Postgraduate study 93 5 2
Don't care to say 74 17 9
Gun owner 90 7 2
Not gun owner 94 4 2
Hunter 89 7 4
No hunters 93 5 1
Less than $30,000 92 6 2
$30,000 to $50,000 92 5 3
$50,000 to $75,000 89 7 4
$75,000 to $100,000 92 7 0
Over $100,000 94 3 2
Declined to Answer 90 8 2
http://www.dailykos.com/polling/2012/12/18/US/148/DON5k