2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCNN/ORC Poll, June 16-19, 2016
Do you favor or oppose stricter gun control laws?
Favor/Oppose
55%/42%
A background check on anyone attempting to purchase
a gun in order to determine whether the prospective
buyer has been convicted of a felony?
Favor/Oppose
92%/8%
Preventing certain people, such as convicted felons or
people with mental health problems, from owning guns
Favor/Oppose
87%/12%
Preventing people who are on the U.S. governments
Terrorist Watchlist or no-fly list from owning guns
Favor/Oppose
85%/14%
Preventing all Americans from owning guns
Favor/Oppose
9%/90%
Shootings like the one in Orlando will happen
again regardless of what action is taken by
government and society
52% agree
Shootings like the one in Charleston will happen
again regardless of what action is taken
by government and society
64% agree
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2016/images/06/20/cnn_orc_poll_june_20.pdf
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)LonePirate
(13,431 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)An appalling sense of resignation and hopelessness.
We'd like to stop it...but we can't.
That's why we have to break the legislative logjam!
We have to pass something - anything! - to end the hopelessness!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)of the half of eligible voters who actually vote?
Democrats and Democratic values win when we turn out!
That's why 'the right' does everything it can think of to suppress our vote -- including feeding our hopelessness and our sense of futility and despair in the face of government and institutional failure that THEY create and promote.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)because I'm pretty sure it would show people favor limiting guns to the mentally ill more than convicted felons.
I also find it generally informing about American attitudes that the equation between dangerousness of convicted felons and persons with mental disorders isn't something that producers at CNN would edit out as it is the sort of badly formed question that people other than push-pollers are trained to avoid.
Again and again the evidence comes back that the majority of mental disorders present no elevation in dangerousness. Again and again the evidence comes back that violence in the general population is about 5% and the occurrence of violence among persons with -serious- mental disorders is shy of 7%.
And yet roughly half of the discussion of mental disorder on television information sources is about the dangerousness of mental illness.