Thursday, December 20, 2012

Daily Kos/PPP Poll: NRA and GOP grossly out-of-step with America ... including Republicans

A sign, flag and flowers are seen outside a home honoring victims who died in the December 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut December 19, 2012. Six more victims of the Newtown school shooting will be honored at funerals and remembrances on Wednesday, including the school principal who was killed with 20 of her students and five other staff members at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.   REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW EDUCATION) We don't know why, but as to how we're going to prevent future massacres, Americans are ready for major gun reform Before we get to the results, one word on the sample composition of this Public Policy Polling poll for Daily Kos -- 54 percent of respondents say they own a gun, while the University of Chicago's General Social Survey reported households owning firearm fell from 54% in 1977 to 32% percent in 2010.

In other words, this poll oversamples gun owners. It's skewed toward those who own guns. So remember that little tidbit as you digest just how awful these numbers are for the NRA and its allies.

Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos. 12/18-19. 1,000 Registered voters. MoE 3.1% (No trendlines)

92 percent of conservatives and 94 percent of Republicans agree. So do 93 percent of southerners. There is no partisan or geographic split on the question. 90 percent of gun owners agree.

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