Half of D.C. residents want a return to citywide gun ban, poll finds [View all]
Half of D.C. residents want a return to citywide gun ban, poll finds
By Aaron C. Davis and Scott Clement November 19
Going even further and reinstating a total ban on gun ownership is most popular among white residents (62 percent), particularly whites with college degrees (67 percent) and white women (65 percent), the poll found.
It is also popular among all residents with incomes of at least $100,000 (61 percent), residents younger than 30 (57 percent) and people who have lived in the city less than 10 years (60 percent).
Support for a gun ban falls to about 4 in 10 among residents with a high school education or less, and with incomes below $50,000. African Americans, particularly those living in areas of the city that have experienced a 50 percent increase in robberies at gunpoint this year, were also among the least supportive.
“Isn’t that in the...the 2nd Amendment, no they shouldn’t ban guns,” said Idriis Bilaal, 88, who spent two decades in the Army and lives in an area of D.C. north of Capitol Hill where robberies have been on the rise. “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.”
Forty-three percent of poll respondents think a ban would have no impact in making the District safe; 12 percent said it would make the city less safe. Forty-two percent thought a complete ban on gun ownership would make the District safer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/half-of-dc-residents-want-a-return-to-citywide-gun-ban-poll-finds/2015/11/18/6956e7e8-8e1d-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html
It seems gun bans are, as many of us have said over the years, popular with the elites and the wealthy, but not so much with the average joe. In DC, African Americans are the least supportive of gun bans, according to this poll. Much more at the link.
Discuss.