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General Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bunker on December 22, 2012, 01:08:40 PM

Title: Rasmussen Poll - 55% Favor Assault Weapons Ban, But 62% Oppose Complete Gun Ban
Post by: Bunker on December 22, 2012, 01:08:40 PM: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/december_2012/55_favor_assault_weapons_ban_but_62_oppose_complete_gun_ban (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/december_2012/55_favor_assault_weapons_ban_but_62_oppose_complete_gun_ban)
Below are the survey questions.

National Survey of 1,000 Adults
Conducted December 19-20, 2012
By Rasmussen Reports

1* How closely have you followed news stories about the recent shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut?

2* Is there too much individual freedom in America?

3* Should there be a ban on the purchase of semi-automatic and assault type weapons?

4* Should people diagnosed with mental illness be placed under stricter control and observation?

5* Suppose that only government officials such as the police and military personnel were allowed to have guns. Would that be good for America or bad for America?

6* Suppose that government officials were allowed to ban movies and video games with excessive violence. Would that be good for America or bad for America?

7* Would you feel safer moving to a neighborhood where nobody was allowed to own a gun or a neighborhood where you could have a gun for your own protection?

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence
Title: Re: Rasmussen Poll - 55% Favor Assault Weapons Ban, But 62% Oppose Complete Gun Ban
Post by: sic_semper_tyrannis on December 22, 2012, 05:36:17 PM: I'd like to see what the political breakdown is/was in the polling data. Rasmussen is generally fair, but most polls tend to have Democrats oversampled.
Title: Re: Rasmussen Poll - 55% Favor Assault Weapons Ban, But 62% Oppose Complete Gun Ban
Post by: xer 21 on December 22, 2012, 05:49:55 PM: i think you'd be surprised at the amount of those identifying republican or conservative who either support, or dont oppose an assault weapons ban.

just like you'd be surprised on how many liberals think such a ban is stupid.

i dont think a political breakdown in these polls (since they generally dont ask) is either possible, or really that much of useful information, unless every voter had their entire polling laid out, individually.
Title: Re: Rasmussen Poll - 55% Favor Assault Weapons Ban, But 62% Oppose Complete Gun Ban
Post by: spanner1751 on December 22, 2012, 09:30:11 PM: Perhaps the momentum towards an "assault weapons" ban is slowing.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-reid-slam-brakes-on-gun-control/article/2516406?utm_campaign=Outbrain+Story+Box&utm_source=traffic.outbrain.com&utm_medium=internal_outb#disqus_thread (http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-reid-slam-brakes-on-gun-control/article/2516406?utm_campaign=Outbrain+Story+Box&utm_source=traffic.outbrain.com&utm_medium=internal_outb#disqus_thread)
Title: Re: Rasmussen Poll - 55% Favor Assault Weapons Ban, But 62% Oppose Complete Gun Ban
Post by: Bunker on December 22, 2012, 10:12:49 PM: Quote from: spanner1751 on December 22, 2012, 09:30:11 PM
Perhaps the momentum towards an "assault weapons" ban is slowing.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-reid-slam-brakes-on-gun-control/article/2516406?utm_campaign=Outbrain+Story+Box&utm_source=traffic.outbrain.com&utm_medium=internal_outb#disqus_thread (http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-reid-slam-brakes-on-gun-control/article/2516406?utm_campaign=Outbrain+Story+Box&utm_source=traffic.outbrain.com&utm_medium=internal_outb#disqus_thread)

Hope you're right but anytime Obama says he has appointed a blue ribbon panel, that usually is not a good thing. Plus, let's not forget who helped draft the previous assault weapon ban legislation, it was say it ain't so Joe Biden.