Polls: Majority Of CO Voters Favor Ban On Assault Weapons

Majority Of Coloradans Favor Banning Assault Weapons, High-Capacity Magazines: Two New Polls Show
From The Colorado Independent's Scot Kersgaard.

Poll results released late Wednesday by Public Policy Polling reported Colorado voters favor banning assault weapons, with 58 percent supporting a ban and 35 percent opposing. Those survey results are supported by results released the same day by Quinnipiac University, The New York Times and CBS, which reported that 58 percent of likely Colorado voters also favor a national ban on high-capacity clips and magazines.

“That is great news,” said State Rep. Beth McCann, D-Denver. “The poll results give me more confidence that Colorado voters don’t think assault weapons need to be available to people other than police officers or those in the military.

“There is really no use for these weapons other than to kill as many people as possible, so I am very pleased. This is encouraging,” she said about the results from the PPP poll.

McCann previously told The Colorado Independent she may introduce legislation regulating assault weapons and ammunition in the next session of the Colorado Legislature.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/0 ... ref=denver

Well, it's about time the MAJORITY of the population started expressing themselves as the number of mass-murders proliferate...and even better that it's a 58% majority in Colorado.

Too bad the Dems in the state legislature can't put this up for a vote before the next election. Would be good to see some gun grabbers lose their seats to pro 2nd Amendment Republicans.

rofllol Once again the Huff puffs smoke up your ass.

From the liberal news paper poll.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ ... ricter-gun

It doesn't mean your poll is right and mine is wrong...

I'll keep hoping that sanity will prevail one of these days.

Democracy4Sale wrote: Well, it's about time the MAJORITY of the population started expressing themselves as the number of mass-murders proliferate...and even better that it's a 58% majority in Colorado.

Except when given specifics, people don't agree with you. People think the question is "100 round magazines". When told "high capacity" according to the anti gun lobby is anything over 10 rounds, they disagree with you.

And I disagree with them...as apparently do 58% of other Coloradoans when the question is put to them that way...

In any case, I really don't care if you can find a competing poll... I will continue to speak out for assault-weapons bans, and restriction of high-capacity magazines.

Democracy4Sale wrote:

Majority Of Coloradans Favor Banning Assault Weapons, High-Capacity Magazines: Two New Polls Show
From The Colorado Independent's Scot Kersgaard.

Poll results released late Wednesday by Public Policy Polling reported Colorado voters favor banning assault weapons, with 58 percent supporting a ban and 35 percent opposing. Those survey results are supported by results released the same day by Quinnipiac University, The New York Times and CBS, which reported that 58 percent of likely Colorado voters also favor a national ban on high-capacity clips and magazines.

These would be the same two polling outfits that generated polls that showed both Romney up by 5 (NYT/Quinnipiac) and Obama up by 6 (PPP) within a day of each other, right?

Given the rawness of the emotions surrounding what happened in Aurora, I can understand a little temporary insanity along these lines. Give it a year or two and the people will return to reason once again.

sales are skyrocketing.
And CCW applications are at an all time high NationWide.

Huff post has a +/- 15% wow what a poll, they must ask the same 10 people each time they poll.

And that is supposed to sway my opinion how...?

CCW's are up... Big whoop... The gun-nuts are coming out of the woodwork...

"Sales are skyrocketing"... I'm sure the arms manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank at how they've manipulated all the Bubba's into believing their guns are going to be taken away... Big whoop... The gun-nuts are coming out of the woodwork...