Poll: Despite mass shooting, most Colo. voters don't favor stricter gun laws

[friendly_iconoclast]

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August 8, 2012 3:00 AM
Poll: Despite mass shooting, most Colo. voters don't favor stricter gun laws

By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus, Lindsey Boerma


(CBS News) Despite recent gun-related tragedies in Colorado and Wisconsin, most voters there, and in Virginia another critical battleground state - do not favor stricter gun laws and do not believe stricter arms laws would help prevent acts of mass violence, according to a Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times poll released this morning.

Conducted from July 31 to August 6, the poll shows the majority of likely voters in all three swing states do not favor stricter regulations for gun sales.

Voters in Colorado, where a gunman last month killed 12 and injured many more when he opened fire in a crowded movie theater, were most likely to favor keeping gun laws exactly as they are, with just 38 percent wanting stricter gun sales in their state. Sixty-six percent of voters in that state also said they do not believe harsher gun laws would curtail future shooting sprees; 60 percent of Virginia voters and 57 percent of Wisconsin voters share that view....

[rrneck]

1. If you put a thousand people in a room

and told them that three of them would be robbed, assaulted, or murdered in the next year five hundred of them would go out and buy a gun tomorrow.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Not surprising in the least

[4th law of robotics]

3. So about 60% of voters employ common sense

that's a good sign I guess. Ought to be higher but I'll take it.

[Hoyt]

4. As usual, poll indicates right wingers agreed with poll results. Dems and women not so much.

From article: "Trends across all three states include women being far more likely than men, and Democrats more likely than Republicans, to support stricter gun sales and believe tighter regulations would help prevent future acts of violence."


I agree with the Democrats. Right wingers and bigots usually support lax gun laws.

[Missycim]

6. Well republicans

cant always be wrong...



I didnt see them poll bigots so I think you just added that in there.

[Hoyt]

8. In this country, conservatives = bigots. Ask one. And they often carry guns.

[Missycim]

12. Republican doesnt always equal conservative

I wasn't talking about conservatives, there are a very few decent repubs left in the country.

[spin]

7. Not always. (n/t)

[Hoyt]

9. I know, like the NRA, those who treat your guns well can do little wrong.

[spin]

10. Well at least those who support my gun rights ...

have far more commonsense than those who don't.

Of course that is merely my opinion.

[4th law of robotics]

11. "More likely than" doesn't equal "majority"

If 80% of republicans are cool with our gun laws as they are and 60% of democrats are democrats are more likely to favor changing the gun laws.

But a majority still wants them left alone.

[Ashgrey77]

5. It's kinda funny, Colorado has one of the strictest gun laws in the country.

But thats not enough for some people. Colorado has what's called a "Mini Brady" law. Colorado Bureau of Investigation, CBI for short ok's or denies every gun sale in Colorado. You don't even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your right to own a firearm in Colorado, just charged and here's the key word "adjudicated". A certain family member of mine can't own a firearm in Colorado because he was arrested for pot 40 years ago in another state, he was never convicted of a felony just arrested and charged. They dropped the charge and he plead guilty on something else in a pleabargin, not a felony. Well in Colorado thats good enough to deny you your 2nd amendment rights. Now this family member if he wanted could go claim residency in the state he was charged and sentenced in and he can pass a NCIS check and buy a firearm no problem. This is why I'm against Colorado sharing records with any other state, if you've lived here and CBI says so, with no due process they can strip your right to own a firearm from you, permanently. And the only people you can appeal to get your 2nd amendment right back is CBI its self and it's up to them, no due process. You can try to get your record expunged or sealed, but good luck with that unless you have a ton of money and can afford a good lawyer and it's STILL up to CBI to restore your 2nd amendment right, and they don't have to if they don't want to and they don't have to explain why. Literally if someone at CBI just plain didn't like you they could put you on the no go list and theres absolutely nothing you can do about it. We have strict enough laws here concerning firearm ownership thank you very much. We definitely don't need people from out of state interfering with our laws when they don't understand or know them anyway.

[DevilDog22]

13. New to this site, needless to say it's a bit interesting....

Some of these comments are quite comical. The left want stricter gun laws to effectively "reduce" crime. However, it has been shown that stricter gun laws do not effectively reduce crime, nor does it increase crime. I'll say it again (yes I've noticed people win prizes for this statement) criminals do not follow the laws. This Aurora, CO shooter had a very shitty agenda and I truly feel for the families. His agenda would not have stopped because of stricter laws on guns, if you disagree show me the statistics, or give me some proof. I'm not sure how many of you are aware of this, but here in this less than perfect world we have what's called a black market. People have access to many illegal items in this underground economy, including firearms.

"Trends across all three states include women being far more likely than men, and Democrats more likely than Republicans, to support stricter gun sales and believe tighter regulations would help prevent future acts of violence."

So this belief, equates to what? This is nothing more than a fallacy of these people, who more or less are just misinformed. I'm not going to allow people to infringe on my rights because "some" believe it will reduce crime or violence when in fact there is no such proof.

Some tend to forget what makes this country so great, it is the rights we have. The rights that we are entitled to which includes the right to bear arms. I understand what our 2A is meant for, I know some believe that if we ever got to the point where we were to actually have to stand up to our government we the people would be squashed. Sorry to inform you but if you haven't looked at what kind of damage that the "terrorists" have caused in our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and their numbers don't compare to our here in America, just food for thought. However my point is, our 2A also allows for us, in the event our government crumbles, to maintain power from foreign attacks. Who, in their right mind, would attack the most armed country in the world? I know this is a right-winged extremist what if. Just consider it for a second, our nation cannot continue in our current path. We need to change and soon.