In new HuffPost/YouGov poll, Americans say: -50%/33%, Congress should take action to reduce mass shootings -60%/25%, it's possible to enact new gun regs without violating 2A -81%/8%, they favor background checks -59%/23%, they favor "assault weapons" banhttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/mass-shooting-assault-weapons-ban-poll_n_5d4c81d5e4b01e44e4777fea?yxu …
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Per Fox: "Positive views of the NRA are also down among gun-owner households: 56 percent versus 67 percent last year."
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New polling shows slipping popularity for the NRA: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nra-favorability-poll_n_5d557febe4b056fafd08770c?pqo …pic.twitter.com/Px0Vcr2TXE
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Another gun poll to add to this thread. Per NBC/WSJ (taken longer after the shootings), Americans favor: Expanded background checks 89/10 Red flag laws 76/22 Voluntary buybacks 75/23 Ban on semi-automatic firearms 62/37 They oppose ban on handguns 25/75https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/support-free-trade-reaches-new-high-nbc-wsj-poll-n1043601 …
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And here's a hastily made chart of NBC/WSJ's NRA polling, which now has opinions on the group at about break-even, down from net +12 in 2017 https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6297116/NBCWSJ-August-2019-Poll.pdf …pic.twitter.com/jCmnIOl0p3
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(Interestingly, there's a big disagreement between Fox and NBC/WSJ there over whether NRA was popular 20 years ago...NBC/WSJ has them at -10 in 1999, Fox has them at +8 in 2000)
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And here's NBC/WSJ on what factors are responsible for the most recent mass shootingspic.twitter.com/464QCwD0n7
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Another gun poll for the thread: Broad support for red flag laws https://www.npr.org/2019/08/20/752427922/poll-americans-including-republicans-and-gun-owners-broadly-support-red-flag-law?utm_campaign=politics&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews …
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I would guess from abandonment of them on the right after all the financial controversy lately.
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That and they have compromised on gun rights too many times.
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Now we just need to figure out how to hold them there till the bubbles stop.
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