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November 19th, 2015, 05:57 PM #1
Poll: White D.C. Residents Favor Gun Ban, Black Residents Don’t
A new poll on gun rights in Washington, D.C., released Thursday shows a sharp divide along racial and economic lines with affluent whites favoring a gun ban and poorer black residents opposing it.
The survey of 1,005 D.C. residents, conducted by the Washington Post between November 12 and 15, found a bare majority of D.C. residents—51 percent— support banning all guns, while nearly as many—47 percent—oppose it.
The Post‘s analysis of the respondents’ racial and economic background show a gun ban is most popular among white residents and least popular among black residents. The paper also found that 67 percent of whites with college degrees supported the idea of a ban, 5 percent more than whites in general.
Sixty-one percent of those making more than $100,000 per year supported the ban—whose racial makeup was not specified—while only about 40 percent of those making less than $50,000 did.
They also found that younger, newer residents of the city supported a gun ban at a higher rate than the general population.
Despite the bare majority of support for a gun ban, the poll found that a bare plurality, 43 percent, said such a ban wouldn’t make a difference in making the city safer. Forty-two percent said a ban would make the city safer. Twelve percent said it would make the city less safe and 3 percent had no opinion.
One resident the Post spoke with said a gun ban would violate the Second Amendment and guns aren’t to blame for gun violence. “Isn’t that in the…the 2nd Amendment, no they shouldn’t ban guns,” Idriis Bilaal, 88, a resident of D.C. who lives north of Capitol Hill, told the paper. “Guns don’t kill nobody, they just lay there. A man should be able to own a gun if he wants to. It doesn’t mean he has to use it wrongly.”
In particular, black residents that live in areas of D.C. that have experienced a 50 percent increase in robberies at gunpoint this year, were the least supportive of an outright ban.
The Supreme Court employed similar reasoning when it struck down the city’s total ban on handgun ownership in 2009, making the constitutionality of any new gun ban in the city highly questionable. The District’s current gun laws have faced a number of recent setbacks in the last two years with federal courts declaring them unconstitutional three different times. The city’s gun carry law is awaiting a hearing on its constitutionality in federal circuit court later this year.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/poll-ri...esidents-dont/The USA is now a banana republic. Only without the bananas....or the Republic.
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November 19th, 2015, 06:07 PM #2
Re: Poll: White D.C. Residents Favor Gun Ban, Black Residents Don’t
51 % favor a gun ban until they find someone swimming in their pool, just ask Rowin.
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November 19th, 2015, 07:23 PM #3
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November 19th, 2015, 07:28 PM #4
Re: Poll: White D.C. Residents Favor Gun Ban, Black Residents Don’t
Rich Honkies are stupid.......
and most of the whites in WDC are Liberal politicians.
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November 19th, 2015, 07:41 PM #5
Re: Poll: White D.C. Residents Favor Gun Ban, Black Residents Don’t
"The Constitution is the guide which I will not abandon.” - George Washington
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November 19th, 2015, 07:43 PM #6
Re: Poll: White D.C. Residents Favor Gun Ban, Black Residents Don’t
Nearly all gun control measures passed in states and cities across America have been racist, for the purpose of disarming various minority groups.
The Democrat Party started the KKK, nurtured it, and still supports nearly all the racist measures it can think of, intentionally aiming abortions, welfare dependency, gun bans, and much other evil directly at blacks for the purpose of keeping them down, holding them down, or putting them down.
These facts need to be better known, and if they became better known our political landscape would shift dramatically for a very long time.Sic semper tyrannis
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November 23rd, 2015, 01:11 AM #7
Re: Poll: White D.C. Residents Favor Gun Ban, Black Residents Don’t
And now they're used to gerrymander pro gun people out of anti gun cities and high population states to give slimeball leftists a political monopoly in those places. It's called the Curley Effect, using bad political policies to make people want to leave thereby rigging the vote by engineering the population demographics.
"You can't stop insane people from doing insane things by passing insane laws--that's insane!" -- Penn Jillette
"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." -- Ted Nugent
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November 23rd, 2015, 08:14 AM #8
Re: Poll: White D.C. Residents Favor Gun Ban, Black Residents Don’t
Keep voting D.
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November 26th, 2015, 10:39 PM #9
Re: Poll: White D.C. Residents Favor Gun Ban, Black Residents Don’t
This is a direct result of the perception (whether rightly or wrongly makes no difference) that the police and white people are against black people. If the police are going to mistreat them, then they want to be armed, in case it becomes necessary.
In other words, exactly what the second amendment is for.
Those who think they are safe from the government, that the government is a warm and cuddly operation, see no need for guns. Those who fear the arm of the government want their guns rights. It makes sense, and it is what the 2A is for.Sic semper tyrannis
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November 27th, 2015, 12:23 AM #10
Re: Poll: White D.C. Residents Favor Gun Ban, Black Residents Don’t
[white libs love utopia]
Montani Semper Liberi
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