Support for red flag laws turns to opposition when voters told about how they work: study

[Reptile]

The study's author suggests 'really biased' framing of poll questions greatly skews support for red flag laws.​

A new study shows that the attitude of Americans toward red flag laws, where guns are taken away from citizens by a judge who determines they are a danger to themselves or others, dramatically changes from support to opposition when more detail is provided in the poll question about the process of gun confiscation via the legal process.

The recently released study of 1,000 likely voters conducted by the Crime Prevention Research Center initially showed that 58% of people support red flag laws when told the "primary purpose is to allow judges to take away a person’s gun based on a single complaint when there is a concern about that individual committing suicide."

When respondents were told there are no hearings where a defendant presents their case to a judge before their gun rights are taken away and mental health experts are not involved in the process, the 58% support drops down to 30% with 47% opposing.

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Support for red flag laws turns to opposition when voters told about how they work: study

A new survey shows that support for red flag laws drops when the question is framed differently and respondents are given more details about how they actually work.

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[Coda]

No different than most liberal agenda’s, once people get the whole truth and noting but the truth the support dwindles.

If everybody stopped watching the main stream media and social media most of this liberal left shit wouldn’t fly.

 

[Dadstoys]

Even my local "But I own guns too " RINO rep was trying to bull shit about the red flag law he voted for.
They assume we are all ignorant as to what these laws are all about.
You voted for something that violates half the constitution dude , own it.

 

[strangenh]

Not a surprise.

All surveys depend on the wording of the questions, the order of the questions, who is asking the questions, how the questions are presented, when the questions are asked, where the questions are asked. It's the deep dark secret of Sociology that all you can do is work to correct for those variables. Good survey methodology uses a large dataset and many variant questionnaires. You're not seeing that in these surveys - usually on purpose.

That's one reason some of the people who analyze the methods, adjust, and aggregate adjusted election survey data come up way more accurate than any of the surveys.

 

[SFC13557]

Same with abortion.

 

[MaverickNH]

Many Americans do have a sense for natural rights that has not been bred out of them by the centuries. We all know the Glorious Cause started over, among other issues, taxation without representation…the Boston Tea Party and such. But the kicker was that the Crown‘s Court of Admiralty would be judging many cases, instead of colonial courts and juries of peers, for matters unrelated to maritime Admiralty Court jurisdiction. The Colonialists who would not be 2nd Class Englishmen, deprived of their rights, chose instead to become Americans, who enshrined their rights in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

A sense for injustice lingers in our blood from our founding generations - to be deprived of rights and possessions in ex parte hearings takes us back to that long train of abuses and the yoke we threw off in 1776. What next - general writs of assistance to search private property, without probable cause and warrants, for ghost guns, hi-capacity magazines and assault weapons?

 

[MaverickNH]

Original Research: Support for Red Flag Laws Depends on People not understanding how Red Flag Laws Operate

The Crime Prevention Research Center hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey Red Flag Laws for 1,000 general election voters from July 21st to 24th, 2022. The survey asked people whether they s…

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Democrats/Leaners (43% of US residents) only trail the wealthy (<5% of US Residents) in support of Red Flagging someone based on a single complaint - so it’s the Democrats with more votes even if the wealthy have more power/influence.

When the survey explains that the Red Flag can be issued without a mental health expert’s input or a hearing that the subject of the ERPO can attend or is informed of in advance, support by Democrats drops markedly by 38%. Which is exactly why the liberal media controls information on gun control policy - Americans still have a strong sense of justice, whether Democrat or Republican. More Democrats will rationalize Red Flag ERPOs as a sensible limitation on civil rights, but enough take a step back to encourage the liberal media to withhold vital information.

The ~1/3rd of Republicans (and Independents) who are still good with Red Flag ERPOs regardless of due process is troubling…given the D+I = ~70% party affiliation statistics.

WIll having 2ndA journalist Gutowski on the CNN “Guns in America” show spread more such factual information in the MSM, or will the other three anti-gun panelists and moderator just convince the viewers 2ndA supporters are liars and that guns are truly bad?

 

[peterk123]

Red flag law is a way to take away your rights because they anticipate that you will commit a crime with a gun. Now, imagine how easy it is to apply this to other anticipated dangerous activities or crimes? Oops....

 

[drgrant]

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