Q-Poll: 9 in 10 Americans Still Support Universal Background Checks

[NutmegYankee]

A Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday found that 9 in 10 Americans support a background check requirement on all gun sales.

The Q-poll, released Thursday morning, showed 92 percent support for universal background checks, with 7 percent opposed. Among gun owners, the support was 92 – 6 percent. The number has hovered around 90 percent since February 2013, two months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Democrats who responded to Newtown with a push for stricter gun restrictions initially pointed to universal background checks as a compromise – a proposal that could pass a divided Congress if they were unable to draw enough support for more controversial policies, like an assault weapons ban or a limit on ammunition magazine size.

But a measure to expand the federal background check requirement failed to clear the U.S. Senate last year. Democrats who advocated for gun control could not win enough support, and the legislation fell six votes short of the 60-vote supermajority required to override a filibuster. Democrats, including the president, frequently cite previous Q-polls showing 90 percent support – “How often do 90 percent of Americans support anything?” President Obama asked last year.

The Q-poll released Thursday found that even Republican voters support background checks, 86 – 11 percent. Democrats – under the lead of President Obama, who made gun control a top priority at the beginning of his second term – showed overwhelming support of 98 – 2 percent.

http://courantblogs.com/capitol-watch/q-poll-9-in-10-americans-still-support-background-checks/

And yet it can't pass the Senate...Pathetic!

[Thinkingabout]

1. And the nuts running around with guns strapped on themselves though may be a small

Portion of our population but they still control the votes in Congress. What kind of a world do we live in where the members of Congress does not have the guts to stand and vote sensible laws to control the nuts. To hell with the NRA, repeal their protection laws, listen to the citizens of the US.

[billh58]

2. Second Amendment absolutists

and NRA apologists will never accept ANY form of gun control because: my "rights" and Liberty, and Freedum. That is why we must marginalize them, vote NRA puppets from both political parties out of office, and help to enact gun control legislation as tough as the Constitution will allow.

It is way past the time when the majority of American people should be held hostage by a minority bunch of gun nuts who contribute to murdering our children, and are the direct cause of the gun violence epidemic in this country. Even though they presume to speak for ALL American gun owners, these domestic terrorist enabling asswipes do NOT represent most gun owners. Yes. guns DO kill people when they are irresponsibly allowed to flood our streets without accountability from their source.

Not one more!