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Poll: Gun control support rises after Orlando shooting
Support for stronger gun control measures increased by 9 percentage points in recent days, after 49 people were killed inside an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, according to the results of a new CNN/ORC poll released Monday.
The poll found 55 percent of Americans are in favor of stricter gun laws, with 42 percent opposed, which matches the highest level of support since the poll was taken in January 2013, just one month after Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. When the question was last asked in October 2015, 46 percent said they were in favor with 52 percent opposed.
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When asked about specific policy steps, 92 percent of respondents favored expanded background checks, 87 percent supported prohibiting convicted felons or people with mental health problems from buying guns and 85 percent were in support of banning people on the terror watch list or on the no-fly list from buying guns. Only 9 percent of those surveyed supported preventing all Americans from owning guns.
When it comes to banning the manufacture and sale of semi-automatic assault rifles, 54 percent said they were in favor, while 44 percent were opposed, virtually unchanged from the previous survey.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/gun-control-support-orlando-224559
The poll found 55 percent of Americans are in favor of stricter gun laws, with 42 percent opposed, which matches the highest level of support since the poll was taken in January 2013, just one month after Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. When the question was last asked in October 2015, 46 percent said they were in favor with 52 percent opposed.
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When asked about specific policy steps, 92 percent of respondents favored expanded background checks, 87 percent supported prohibiting convicted felons or people with mental health problems from buying guns and 85 percent were in support of banning people on the terror watch list or on the no-fly list from buying guns. Only 9 percent of those surveyed supported preventing all Americans from owning guns.
When it comes to banning the manufacture and sale of semi-automatic assault rifles, 54 percent said they were in favor, while 44 percent were opposed, virtually unchanged from the previous survey.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/gun-control-support-orlando-224559
The 2016 Democratic Platform, and Hillary Clinton seek to address the gun violence epidemic in the USA through sensible gun control legislation and improved research, and by increased enforcement of current laws:
From a Texas legislative standpoint:
It wouldn’t matter if new federal laws are entirely constitutional; it wouldn’t matter if the new laws saved lives; it wouldn’t matter if the new news enjoyed broad, bipartisan support. Under the proposal pending in Texas, current laws have reached a ceiling, and any effort to raise that ceiling must be ignored.
http://www.gunnews.com/law-prof-states-can-refuse-to-enforce-federal-gun-laws/
Elect Democrats whose vote can't be purchased by the right-wing gun lobby, and who are not afraid of introducing and supporting common sense legislation aimed at curtailing the flood of lethal weapons on our streets and in our communities.