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Pew poll: Majority likes background checks, federal gun sale database
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A new Pew Research Center poll released yesterday contains some bad news for at least some hardcore gun rights activists, but at the same time also further paints Democrats into a corner of their own choosing: That of the “Party of Gun Control.”
According to the Pew poll, taken July 14-20 among 2,002 adults, 85 percent of Americans support expanded background checks. That includes 88 percent of Democrats and 79 percent of Republicans. By a wide margin (79 percent) they also support laws prohibiting mentally ill people from buying guns, and 70 percent overall support “the creation of a federal database to track all gun sales.”
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Millwright66
(8/15/2015)
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Pew and their copycats are going to fall out of that cherry tree soon ! Sort of like peeing to windward expecting not to smell...... |
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