Take the damn Vote already.
Even strong majorities of Gun Owners support it -- So What's the Problem?
These overwhelming majorities support new Universal Background Checks.
Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds Support For Universal Gun Background Checks Is 92%
February 7, 2013
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On gun-control, there is overwhelming 92 - 7 percent support for background checks for all gun buyers, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds. Support for universal background checks is 91 - 8 percent among voters in a household with a gun.
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Voters support 52 - 43 percent stricter nationwide gun-control laws. Attitudes on other gun-control issues are:
56 - 39 percent support for a ban on the sale of assault weapons, with voters in gun households opposing a ban 52 - 44 percent;
56 - 40 percent support for a ban on the sale of high capacity magazines holding more than 10 rounds, with voters in gun households opposed 52 - 45 percent;
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Better than 9 out 10 support it.
So take the damn Vote already. Pass the Universal Background Check law, that overwhelming majorities of us support.
Gun Poll: Background Checks Supported By 92% Of Americans
by Ariel Edwards-Levy, Huffington Post -- 01/17/2013
Universal background checks on gun buyers are favored by 92 percent of Americans, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll released Thursday.
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Support for the plan crosses demographics, with those in favor including 93 percent of gun households, 89 percent of Republicans, and 85 percent of households with NRA members.
The poll was taken before President Barack Obama's press conference Wednesday, when he called for background checks, among a host of other gun control reforms.
"The only way we can change is if the American people demand it," Obama said.
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92% of Americans support
Universal Background Checks --
93% of gun households --
So what's the problem?
No seriously, what is it? Are we afraid of starting the course corrections on the scourge of senseless, tragic deaths in this country, due to the easy availability of high powered guns, to one and all -- No Questions asked?
We should be more afraid of the status-quo, business-as-usual congressional game-players, who are willing to ignore 92% of the public, all to protect their own political careers from some phantom menace, otherwise known as the NRA. (That Lobbying organization that can't even persuade its own members -- to abandon their common sense.)
92 out of 100 people could quite easily vote these status-quo, gutless wonders out of office.
Perhaps the politicians should be more afraid of that outcome, eh?