MaverickNH
NES Member
Narrow majority favors stricter gun laws, but deep partisan divisions persist: "Today, just over half of Americans (53%) say gun laws should be stricter than they currently are, a view held by 81% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents but just 20% of Republicans and Republican leaners."
LOL! With an error rate of 2.1%, that NARROW MAJORITY is <1%
But Pew’s numbers look more real than the oft-claimed 80-90% of Americans that support stricter [fill in the blank] gun laws. In the two states that held referenda on Universal Background Checks, what Democrats consider to be the "low bar" in passing new gun laws, UBCs lost in one state and won by <1% in another.
Amid a Series of Mass Shootings in the U.S., Gun Policy Remains Deeply Divisive
While a few proposals continue to garner bipartisan support, partisan divisions on others – including a ban on assault-style weapons – have grown wider.
www.pewresearch.org
LOL! With an error rate of 2.1%, that NARROW MAJORITY is <1%
But Pew’s numbers look more real than the oft-claimed 80-90% of Americans that support stricter [fill in the blank] gun laws. In the two states that held referenda on Universal Background Checks, what Democrats consider to be the "low bar" in passing new gun laws, UBCs lost in one state and won by <1% in another.