"Americans' Dissatisfaction With Gun Laws Highest Since 2001"

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Americans' Dissatisfaction With Gun Laws Highest Since 2001

http://www.gallup.com/poll/167135/americans-dissatisfaction-gun-laws-highest-2001.aspx

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' dissatisfaction with U.S. gun laws and policies has increased to 55%, nearly matching the high of 57% in 2001. Forty percent are satisfied, down from the historical average of 47% since Gallup began asking this question in this way in 2001.

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Overall, Americans' satisfaction with gun laws ranks near the middle of a list of 19 issues measured in Gallup's 2014 update of its annual Mood of the Nation survey. The highest levels of satisfaction were with the nation's military strength and ability to deal with terrorism; the lowest were with poverty and homelessness and the state of the nation's economy.

Americans may be dissatisfied with gun laws because they believe they should be stricter, or because they believe the laws are too strict as they are. Therefore, Gallup asks those who are dissatisfied with gun laws to choose among explanations for their dissatisfaction. Those who are dissatisfied have historically leaned heavily in the direction of wanting stricter rather than less strict laws.

But this year, the gap between those wanting stricter gun laws and those wanting less strict laws narrowed as a result of a sharp increase in the percentage of Americans who want less strict laws, now at 16% up from 5% a year ago. Support for making gun laws stricter fell to 31% from 38% last January. The January 2013 poll was conducted shortly after the December 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting tragedy, which sparked some state governments to consider new gun laws and a robust national discussion about the issue.

[pscot]

1. link?

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2. Sorry and thanks for pointing out that I forgot that.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/167135/americans-dissatisfaction-gun-laws-highest-2001.aspx

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3. It's good

I was inteested, and wanted to read more. Tks for posting.

[SecularMotion]

4. When polled about specific laws, Americans support stronger gun regulations

Still, Obama may have public opinion on his side when it comes to advancing specific measures to strengthen regulations regarding the sale and purchase of guns and ammunition. Gallup polling over the past year has found broad public support for many such proposals, such as 65% support for a law expanding background checks for gun purchases, 60% support for reinstating and strengthening an expired ban on assault rifles, and 54% in favor of limiting the sale of high-capacity magazines.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/167162/state-union-public-weighs-key-issues.aspx

[billh58]

5. +100

Only cold-dead-hands Second Amendment absolutists are against sensible gun control legislation, along with those who believe the right-wing ALEC/Koch Brothers-funded NRA lies and half-truths. This includes those who repeat those lies and distortions on Liberal and Democratic discussion boards.

[jimmy the one]

6. guncontrolcare

Americans have become more dissatisfied with gun laws over the past year, but this is attributable to a greater percentage who say gun laws are too strict, rather than not being strict enough.

HAHA - this mirrors pretty closely the feelings on obamacare, in that about 40% are satisfied with obamacare AND guncontrol laws, while about 50% are dissatisfied with both (~10% dont care etc).
The further similarity is that about 15% dissatisfied with obamacare want more liberal policy but not repeal, & about 15% dissatisfied of gunnuts want looser gun laws.
Point being is that you won't hear rightwing bleating that 55% of americans are dissatisfied with gun control law policies without screaming that a third of that is gunnuts wanting less guncontrol. But they will scream that americans disfavor obamacare at 55% without noting that a third of them want it made more liberal, & generally oppose repeal.

But gallup has not been that accurate of late, note election 2012 way off on inordinately high number of races, & diverged from other reputable polls on guncontrol & politics, so I give gallup about the same respectability as rightwing rag rasmussen, CRAP = crap polling = computer responsive automated polling.