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Showing Original Post only (View all)Now we know why gun control has not been an issue for this election. [View all]
The fewest Americans in 20 years favor making it illegal to manufacture, sell or possess semi-automatic guns known as assault rifles. Thirty-six percent now want an assault weapons ban, down from 44% in 2012 and 57% when Gallup first asked the question in 1996.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/196658/support-assault-weapons-ban-record-low.aspx
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The questions asked evidently were very confusing, and this is based upon their own words.
tonyt53
Oct 2016
#4
The question on whether assault weapons should be illegal is clear and unambiguous.
hack89
Oct 2016
#5
I suggest changing the words "semi-automatic" to sonething like "Military Style".
napi21
Oct 2016
#40
It would be wisw to put those specs in the law, but to try to be explicit enough when telling people
napi21
Oct 2016
#44
Bolt-action 5-round fixed capacity rifles are "Military Style". Currently in action
aikoaiko
Oct 2016
#356
No - due process says you can confront your accuser and have an impartial hearing
hack89
Oct 2016
#31
Got it. Unlimited government power to restrict civil rights because terra terra terra
hack89
Oct 2016
#43
So you are good with anonymous bureaucrats having the power to restrict your civil rights?
hack89
Oct 2016
#59
Should they also be prevented from obataining driver's licenses, and purchasing or renting...
Marengo
Oct 2016
#64
Isn't the support of a Bush era secret watch list "arguing with the Republicans"?
Marengo
Oct 2016
#150
Is denying someone not otherwise legally prohibited from purchasing a firearm...
Marengo
Oct 2016
#154
Apparently not in the case of persons placed on a secret list created by a crooked Republican
Marengo
Oct 2016
#159
Why do you support preventing persons on the no fly list from exercising their...
Marengo
Oct 2016
#139
Now you are refusing to answer a gun control question? Isn't that the subject of this thread?
Marengo
Oct 2016
#153
Such persistent dodging can only mean you can't answer. Unless you can explain otherwise,
Marengo
Oct 2016
#157
There are many questions waiting for you, questions relevant to the topics you chose...
Marengo
Oct 2016
#163
It's comical, with that transparent behavior they expect to be regarded as credible.
Marengo
Oct 2016
#165
Yeah, go ahead and wave it off. It's only your credibility that's in question here.
Marengo
Oct 2016
#169
I'm pretty sure you are intentionally avoiding answering the question, as I'm pretty sure...
Marengo
Oct 2016
#83
How about just answering the question in post #64, or explaining why you can't or won't.
Marengo
Oct 2016
#104
I'll ask you again if persons on the no-fly list should be denied driver's licenses or the ability..
Marengo
Oct 2016
#89
Why not? All that's required is a simple yes or no. I should think it would be easy for you to...
Marengo
Oct 2016
#100
They nearly always run from that one, often conveniently hiding behind the same lame...
Marengo
Oct 2016
#172
A Renault truck, used as a weapon in Nice, killed 86 and injured 434. An intentional act.
Marengo
Oct 2016
#331
Again, the truck was not manufactured for the purpose to kill. It was misused.
Fla Dem
Oct 2016
#333
LOL! Since that one refuses to answer, it seems justifiable to say that could very well...
Marengo
Oct 2016
#168
According to your post, you don't know. To say anything else would be a lie.
stone space
Oct 2016
#219
It's not a matter of trying, it IS justified, whether you choose to acknowledge that or not.
Marengo
Oct 2016
#225
LOL! No my friend, it's because you CAN'T answer. If I were not interested, why would I...
Marengo
Oct 2016
#224
Curiosity, of course, which you keep alive every time you respond with a non-answer.
Marengo
Oct 2016
#230
Looks like the NRA won this one for a while. The violence just doesn't bother enough of us.
Bucky
Oct 2016
#16
A simple "that's deplorable" would have been a clearer indication that you actually read it.
stone space
Oct 2016
#26
Referring to those like the NRA who STILL support Trump as "deplorable" is not really uncivil.
stone space
Oct 2016
#32
If you are shocked to read "National Rapist Association" on DU, then don't post such!
Eleanors38
Oct 2016
#101
Only for full automatics. How did Adam Lanza's mother get one if it is so strong?
stone space
Oct 2016
#36
re: "I'd be willing to bet...that we'll see a ban on...semi automatic firearms in my lifetime..."
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Oct 2016
#54
The public has been indoctrinated with decades of MSM gun-control agitprop...
Eleanors38
Oct 2016
#94
If less people are truly concerned about the proliferation of "assault" rifles and hatred in this
Hoyt
Oct 2016
#69
Because there are a lot more photos of racists and losers walking around on streets parading
Hoyt
Oct 2016
#113
You have personally inspected the homes of all teachers, college professors, doctors,...
Marengo
Oct 2016
#119
I know gunners, been around them for most of my life. A bunch have become like me, can't stand
Hoyt
Oct 2016
#124
Your support for all things gunz is quite clear. I don't know your favorite toter,nor do I care.
Hoyt
Oct 2016
#179
I want to see that guess articulated in your next post, in detail. I want you to tell me...
Marengo
Oct 2016
#193
"Those" kind of people have every bit as much right to be in the street as you do.
beevul
Oct 2016
#118
What do you have against calculus? I've never understood your obsession with calculus.
stone space
Oct 2016
#272
It would appear that the poster believes calculous is a difficult and challenging field...
SoCalDad
Oct 2016
#340
No one has a right to walk around intimidating people with guns. Sorry, beevul. You might like to
Hoyt
Oct 2016
#129
Well, I'm not a gun fancier or humper, so I'm not fine with it. The fact they strap on a gun to go
Hoyt
Oct 2016
#238
That's what Zimmerman, Dunn, etc., said before they did what they had been training for.
Hoyt
Oct 2016
#184
I mention "melt em", one of your brothers in gunloverville threats to shoot me and you chime in
Stinky The Clown
Oct 2016
#199
I have found Rio No. 8s in target load an inexpensive and effective choice...
Eleanors38
Oct 2016
#267
Some comedians make excellent points. Jon Stewart was another example.
Buckeye_Democrat
Oct 2016
#186
No I don't. Brutality is unnecessary, and blaming the victims for brutality is wrong.
stone space
Oct 2016
#322
Should students like Ana Lopez just get thicker skins when gun bullies brutalize them?
stone space
Oct 2016
#342
If she was the "victum" of a "snuff film" then she would not be able to complain.
oneshooter
Oct 2016
#392
Things change. That you think you've been hearing something for decades doesn't change that.
kcr
Oct 2016
#243
"being able to buy an item that allows a person to kill dozens of other people..."
EX500rider
Oct 2016
#280
If we're just going by polling, most Americans favor marijuana legalization now.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#332
If the gun controllers were smart, they would pair a Toomey/Manchin style background check
aikoaiko
Oct 2016
#389