beevul: In DC, African Americans are the least supportive of gun bans, according to this poll. Much more at the link.
Right, more at the link, more popular in georgetown for sure: It is also popular among all residents with incomes of at least $100,000 (61%), residents younger than 30 (57%) and people who have lived in the city less than 10 years (60%). Support for a gun ban falls to about 4 in 10 among residents with a high school education or less,
In the event tho, the poll mixes apples with oranges, since there never was a 'total gun ban' in the district; indeed about 100,000 rifles & shotguns were legally owned during the 70's, 80's 90's to 2008. About a 20% gun per capita rate (plus a few thousand legal handguns).
reporters remark: Fifty-one percent of D.C. residents said they would like to reinstate a ban on gun ownership in the city that was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2008, according to a new Washington Post poll.
Except the heller decision was regarding dc handgun ban, wasn't it?
poll question: Do you support or oppose making it against the law to own any gun in the district?
reporter's remark: With a solid half in support of a total gun ban, the poll’s findings
reporters remark: 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.
So, by deductive reasoning, presuming a lesser ban on simply handguns would garner more support from all sides, the actual 'reinstatement of the handgun ban' would surely receive greater support than the 51% parity vote for this new style 'total gun ban'.
Question for readers asleep at the wheel: can something like a law or rule which never existed before, be 'reinstated'?
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