Post-Tucson Poll: Little Support for Gun Control

CNN Poll: No change on gun law opinions after Arizona shootings
Washington (CNN) - Americans' overall attitudes toward Gun Laws have not budged an inch in the wake of the shootings in Arizona, according to a new National Poll. But a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday also indicates that majority of the public favors restrictions on semi-automatic guns and high-capacity ammunition clips, as well as Background Checks and limits on the number of guns that can be purchased. The poll indicates that the two sides of the gun debate are evenly b...

Why Gabrielle Giffords shooting hasn't boosted gun control (The Christian Science Monitor)
The aftermath of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others - six fatally - last week has resulted in no plans for sweeping antigun Legislation. Instead, Gun Control proposals forwarded by members of Congress in the past week have been notably limited in scope - seeking to address only narrow subsections of the population or perceived legal Loopholes. The reason: the political calculus of Gun Control has changed dramatically in the past 20 years, resulting in a strongly pro-g

USA TODAY poll: Americans favor stricter gun control, better mental health screening
Americans favor stricter Gun Control laws and better Mental Health screening and support to prevent Mass Shootings, a USA Today/ Gallup Poll found. Ask what they think the one or two most important things that could be done to prevent mass shootings in the USA, 24% of adults selected stricter Gun Control laws, 15% favored better Mental Health screening, 9% favored more education for Children about violence and the proper use of guns, and 8% favored more extensive Background Checks for gun purch...

CNN Poll: Blame game in Arizona shootings
Washington (CNN) - Americans feel sadness, anger and shock in the wake of the tragic events in Tucson, Arizona, according to a new National Poll. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday also indicates there's plenty of blame to go around over the shootings, but two-thirds of the public is pessimistic that the government or society can prevent something like this from happening again. A total of 19 people were shot January 8 at the "Congress on Your Corner" event at a Tucson sup...

Poll: Americans--even gun-owners--strongly favor broad range of gun control measures
A new Bipartisan poll conducted for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, shows strong support for stronger Gun Control measures, including strenghtened implementation of existing laws as well new measures--both of which have been vehemently opposed by the NRA. Support for some measures ranges as high as 80 or 90 percent, while majorities opposed only two measures that were asked about. The poll of 1003 adults included a sub-sample of 451 gun owners, whose responses once again showed that the NRA does ...

Bloombergs Gun Control Group Polls On Gun Control
Mayor Bloomberg has joined the pushback effort on the suggestion that passing Gun Control Legislation is neither possible nor palatable in the current political environment, releasing a poll through his Mayors Against Illegal Guns group today that demonstrates a “sensible approach” to the nation’s Gun Laws. The poll was conducted jointly by Momentum Analysis, a polling firm with Democratic clients, and American Viewpoint, a polling firm with Republican clients. “This po...

Giffords Shooting in Arizona Spurs Gun Law Debate
The tragic shooting in Arizona, which left six people dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords seriously wounded, immediately swept aside business as usual for Congress, possibly altering its agenda for the rest of the year. As legislators mourned those who were lost, they also mulled how to move forward in a very new political climate. [See photos from the Arizona shooting.] Although the House had been scheduled to debate a healthcare Repeal last week, that vote and all other major votes were postpon...

Poll: 69% Say Az. Shooting Has Not Changed Their Opinion on Gun Control
*18 Have the shootings in Arizona made you more likely to support stricter Gun Control laws, less likely to support stricted Gun Control laws or has your opinion on Gun Control not changed as a result of the Arizona shooting? CNN poll Politico Most Americans have not changed their views on Gun Control following the shooting nine days ago in Tucson, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll out Monday. Sixty-nine percent of those polled said the shooting that left six dead and injured 13, includi...

Poll: Little support for gun control
Most Americans have not changed their views on Gun Control following the shooting nine days ago in Tucson, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll out Monday. Sixty-nine percent of those polled said the shooting that left six dead and injured 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), has not changed their opinion on gun control. Twenty-eight percent said the shooting has made them “more likely” to support stricter controls on the sale of Firearms, while 3 percent were &ldqu...;

Why Has Support For Gun Control Tanked?
Nate Birkhead has an interesting and informative post up about lobbying and the power of the NRA. He notes that Gun Control has become far less popular over the last 20 years, and concludes: The NRA, though it is exceptionally powerful (and it is), would still not be able to suppress the interests of populace if there was considerable support for renewed Gun Control initiatives. The problem for Rep. McCarthy and her allies: there’s very little public support for limiting access to guns. I...

Truth and Tucson (Three)
First reports are always wrong - that old adage can't be repeated enough. In a previous installment we examined the role of several Military Veterans in the Tucson rampage. Those stories were revealed in reports filed several days after Jared Loughner's assault. Initial reports from the day of indicated he'd killed Representative Gabrielle Giffords and several other citizens attending her public appearance at a local Supermarket. Reports of her death proved premature, but soon enough they were r...

Ron Paul: Gun control push after Tucson massacre is despicable
Stumble This! 'Guns and violence are a fact of life,' Texas Rep. insists Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul assailed as "nonsensical" the recent attempts at stiffening Gun Control laws in the aftermath of the shooting rampage in Arizona that killed six and thirteen injured In an op-ed for The Hill published Monday, Paul sharply denounced the violence in Tucson last Saturday, but said that "some have attempted to use this tragedy to discredit philosophical adversaries or score political points. Thi...

Polls: Favorable to Obama Arizona Response and Mixed on Palin Crosshairs Map
The poll numbers are coming out now on how Americans are perceiving the tragic shootings in Arizona and the response of some politicians to it. The verdict: Obama rising and Palin at the very best did not impress or unimpressed. ABC News reports: Americans divide on the risks posed by the tone of the country’s political discourse but approve overwhelmingly of President Obama’s attempt to redirect it. Most also hold some hopes of political conciliation in the aftermath of the Tucson ...

Janine Balekdjian: The Tuscon Massacre and Jan Brewer
There is a lot of blame going around for the rampage in Tuscon aimed at Representative Gabrielle Giffords last Saturday, leaving the Congresswoman in critical condition, six others dead, and fourteen wounded. Liberals have pointed to disturbing right-wing violent Rhetoric, like Sarah Palin's infamous crosshair map and Glenn Beck's daily panic sessions, as bound to have consequences eventually. Chief Wingnut rhetorician Rush Limbaugh has fired back, amazingly casting himself as the Victim, clai...

The folly of gun control
Some want bans on the extended-capacity ammunition clips that allowed Loughner to fire more than 30 shots from his Glock semi-automatic pistol without reloading. Others want improved background screening to prevent mentally unstable individuals from purchasing guns. Would these or other laws prevent incidents like the Arizona shooting? Probably not. And such laws, along with existing Gun Controls, not only harm responsible gun owners but may even increase violence. Gun-control laws fall into two...

New gun proposals may not prevent tragedy
The tragic shooting in Tucson, Ariz., has already prompted several major gun proposals on Capitol Hill, including one to prohibit high-volume Firearms and one to keep guns a minimum distance away from high-level government officials. But none of them address a wider problem with no easy government solution: how an obviously mentally unstable individual like Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter, was able to buy a gun. As the profile of Jared Lee Loughner continues to emerge, evidence is mount...

After Arizona, The Gun Control Debate Resurfaces
A few senators are continuing to brave the gun debate in wake of the Tucson shooting. But as they express support for various Gun Control measures, they also concede that the current political climate gives them little hope those measures will ever be implemented. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, suggested Sunday that the Military should be required to inform the FBI when an applicant is rejected for excessive drug use. Then that person would be flagged in the FBI database when/if attemp...

Husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Willing to Meet Parents of Accused Gunman
Source: CBS News The husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords says he would be willing to meet with the parents of 22-year-old Jared Loughner, the alleged gunman who critically injured the Ariz. congresswoman and killed people during a rampage outside a Tucson Supermarket. ... Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20028763-504083.... ...

McCarthy Will Introduce Bill to Limit Ammunition Clips
Seizing on the shooting in Arizona that killed six and critically injured Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Representative Carolyn McCarthy of New York, a long-time Gun Control advocate, said Tuesday she would introduce a bill next week that would ban high-capacity ammunition magazines. The bill would be carried in the Senate by Senator Frank Lautenberg. The bill would limit such magazines to 10-round-maximums and close a Loophole in the expired assault weapon ban, in which magazines manufactu...

Water is wet, Pope Catholic, and gun manufacturers raise money for the NRA
The Center for Public Integrity just sent out the following Press Release. I don't know about you, but I'm outrageously outraged: WASHINGTON, D.C. January 18, 2011 — It’s no accident the National Rifle Association staunchly supports high-capacity magazines - it gets money from their manufacturers every day. Missouri-based gun company MidwayUSA pioneered a Fundraising tactic called “Round-Up.” The program involves asking customers to round up their purchases to the n...

Corrected: Giffords doing well after weekend surgeries: doctors
Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:13pm EST (Corrects to make clear breathing tube removed from throat instead of nose, in paragraphs 1 and 9-10) By Brad Poole TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was recovering well from a pair of weekend surgeries to remove a breathing tube that ran down her throat and to repair her right eye socket, doctors said on Monday. Dr. Michael Lemole, chief of Neurology at University Medical Center in Tucson, said Giffords' next milestone would be disc...

Many questions, few answers left in Tucsons wake
By Nicholas Wilbur What is government if words have no meaning? That was the question Jared Lee Loughner posed to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in their first meeting. In their second meeting, he shot her in the head. The round-the-clock media circus has taken a swipe at every minute detail of Loughner's life in an attempt to understand his motivations for killing six and wounding 14 others in the attempted Assassination of a congresswoman. Unfortunately, the 24-hour-a-day speculation-based coverag...

Rep. Giffords continuing recovery
A little over a week after being shot in the head by a deranged person, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) is continuing to put up a miraculous fight to recover: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords smiles at her husband and has even given him a back rub, her doctors said today. The tracheotomy tube in the throat of the badly wounded Arizona congresswoman prevents her from speaking to her husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly, but the doctors said the smiles were important indicators. “It implies she is recognizin...

Pelosi on Giffords visit, health care repeal
(CNN) -Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi revealed details to CNN's "The Situation Room" anchor Wolf Blitzer Tuesday about her recent visit with Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who remains in serious condition in Tucson, Arizona. Pelosi also described watching Giffords respond to questions from her husband by opening her eyes. "She really opened her eyes. It wasn't just that we imagined it, you could see the beautiful blue eyes." When asked about whether former Alaska Governor Sar...

Raising gun control after Arizona | Amanda Marcotte
A man walks by the Glock Handgun billboard at a 2003 NRA meeting in Orlando, Florida. The shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, in the attempted Assassination of Gabrielle Giffords and the Murder of six others in Tucson used a Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistol bought in Arizona. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters The answer to the question, "Why can't the United States have a grown-up, rational discussion about reasonable Gun Control measures anymore?" was actually provided before the Tucson, Arizon...