re: #115 Patricia Kayden
New PPP poll on gun reform:
• Support for background checks for all gun buyers: 87% support, 8% oppose
• Ban on assault weapons: 64-26%
• Want stronger gun laws 60-32%
• Giving guns to teachers: 35% support, 53% oppose— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 27, 2018
These figures are nice to see, of course (and are in line with other polling I’ve seen on gun issues) - the only problem that too many of the Legislative Branches on the State and Federal are under the control of today’s Republican Party: a Party which has shown itself supremely indifferent to public opinion. Or rather, respectful of the opinions of just two constituencies:
1. Their donors.
2. The most hardcore (i.e. extremist) of their “base”.
And barring a severe electoral drubbing (along 1932, or 1964 lines), little will change.