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How Do State and Local Government Officials View Gun Control?
Senior-level state and local government officials strongly favor universal background checks as a solution to gun violence, according to a Governing Index survey. But support for other oft-discussed measures tracked closely, based on gun ownership among public officials.
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In general, policies that treated guns as a deterrent or a defense against violence were more popular with gun-owning public officials; policies that sought to prohibit guns or features of guns were more popular with officials who do not own guns. For example, a majority of gun-owning public officials opposed a ban on assault weapons (61 percent) and a ban on high-capacity magazines (60 percent). Public officials who do not own guns supported an assault weapons ban (83 percent) and a high-capacity magazine ban (82 percent).
Even where majorities of both sub groups agreed, a gap still existed. About 41 percent of gun-owning respondents supported a requirement that every school train and arm at least one staff member with a firearm, compared with 15 percent of non-gun owners. Slightly more than half of gun owners were supportive of voluntary gun buybacks (compared with 76 percent of non-gun owners). About 71 percent of gun-owning public officials supported increased funding to hire additional school resource officers (compared with 53 percent of non-gun owners).
Read More: http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/gov-how-do-state-and-local-government-officials-view-gun-control.html
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In general, policies that treated guns as a deterrent or a defense against violence were more popular with gun-owning public officials; policies that sought to prohibit guns or features of guns were more popular with officials who do not own guns. For example, a majority of gun-owning public officials opposed a ban on assault weapons (61 percent) and a ban on high-capacity magazines (60 percent). Public officials who do not own guns supported an assault weapons ban (83 percent) and a high-capacity magazine ban (82 percent).
Even where majorities of both sub groups agreed, a gap still existed. About 41 percent of gun-owning respondents supported a requirement that every school train and arm at least one staff member with a firearm, compared with 15 percent of non-gun owners. Slightly more than half of gun owners were supportive of voluntary gun buybacks (compared with 76 percent of non-gun owners). About 71 percent of gun-owning public officials supported increased funding to hire additional school resource officers (compared with 53 percent of non-gun owners).
Read More: http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/gov-how-do-state-and-local-government-officials-view-gun-control.html