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Percentage Of USA That Would Make All Guns Illegal To Own

What Percentage of US Population Wants To Ban All Firearms?

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I would say its probably around 1 in 10 to 2 in 10 Americans depending on how the question would be worded. Some people just don't like guns at all. However, its actually a smaller number today than at any point in several decades at least.
 
Luftwaffe said:
Then why the hell is there a "dangerously large amount" option?
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I would imagine that would refer to a number that would be significantly large enough to actually amend the constitution.
 
Dragonfly said:
I keep reading threads from people who insist on calling out "gun grabbers" as if there's a significant portion of the population of America that would like to ban all guns, from all people, all the time.

To me this always comes across as dishonest, fear-mongering propaganda.

So I thought I'd try to ask an honest question in hopes of getting an honest answer. :shock:

In your humble opinion, what percentage of all US citizens (of legal voting age) do you think want to make private citizens owning and firing any and all guns an illegal act?

Do you think it's an insignificant amount? Less than 5% of total population? Do you think it's a significant amount? Upwards of 45-50%?
Somewhere in-between? Is it an honest concern, or just a hot-button phrase used to basically subdue any "real" discussion in favor of propaganda and fear?
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Most of us on the Left would probably say 20% or (probably significant) less. Most Dems do not want to ban guns anyway. BUT if you listen to the right-wing gun nuts, there's a vast left-wing conspiracy to send out the black helicopters and take everyone's guns away....
 
TeleKat said:
Ok?What does that ramble have to do with my post?
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You were talking about the Supreme Court and bans on guns. I then talked about what the Supreme Court has said about bans on guns. And you now ask what that had to do with your post?

Maybe you are just irked because I pointed out the fact that most of the calls for banning guns come from collectivist know-nothings. Dianne Feinstein, the clown who embarrasses my state in the U.S. Senate, is one of their leading lights. I doubt if one in a hundred of these people has read a single page of Heller--and I'm sure that doesn't make much difference, because they wouldn't understand it if they tried. Like most collectivists, they're ignorant and like it that way. They have their articles of faith, and that's good enough for them.
 
matchlight said:
You were talking about the Supreme Court and bans on guns. I then talked about what the Supreme Court has said about bans on guns. And you now ask what that had to do with your post?

Maybe you are just irked because I pointed out the fact that most of the calls for banning guns come from collectivist know-nothings. Dianne Feinstein, the clown who embarrasses my state in the U.S. Senate, is one of their leading lights. I doubt if one in a hundred of these people has read a single page of Heller--and I'm sure that doesn't make much difference, because they wouldn't understand it if they tried. Like most collectivists, they're ignorant and like it that way. They have their articles of faith, and that's good enough for them.
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No, you're rambling. My post was strictly about the powers of the supreme court. I never gave my position on guns one way or the other. In fact, you might surprise yourself in finding out that I'm actually very pro-gun. I'm for constitutional carry even. No permits or checks of any kind. But where I'm pro-gun, I'm also anti-bull****. I make no secret of my absolute distaste for partisan nonsense, fearmongering, and intellectual dishonesty. And frankly there's alot of that circulating around the issue of gun control.
 
iacardsfan said:
Yes I truly do. Maybe slightly less, but nothing significant. There are a lot of people who are against guns in their entirety.
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I agree but think the percentage is more along the 15% Hikari suggested. There is a difference I believe between people that think ideologically 'gee...wouldnt it be swell if there were no guns anywhere ever" and people that think "we should pass a law banning guns".
 
TeleKat said:
No, you're rambling. My post was strictly about the powers of the supreme court. I never gave my position on guns one way or the other. In fact, you might surprise yourself in finding out that I'm actually very pro-gun. I'm for constitutional carry even. No permits or checks of any kind. But where I'm pro-gun, I'm also anti-bull****. I make no secret of my absolute distaste for partisan nonsense, fearmongering, and intellectual dishonesty. And frankly there's alot of that circulating around the issue of gun control.
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I never suggested anything about what your personal views on firearms might be, nor do they interest me. I was talking generally about the subject of this thread--Americans who want to ban firearms. I am pretty sure who the lion's share of them are, and I pointed that out. My comments about Sen. Feinstein had nothing to do with the party she represents, but with the fact she is a fool who holds the Constitution in contempt. She openly stated several years ago that she would like to see all guns confiscated, and I'm sure a lot of people who share her other views agree with her. Most so-called liberals are anything but, and they have as much disdain for the First Amendment as they have for the Second.
 
Better question is what percentage is ready to gear up and enforce a ban and or confiscation.
 
For the last few decades there's been a segment of the population that seems to almost orgasm over the concept of a complete government-run confiscation of all weapons from all private citizens.

"They're coming for our guns."

We hear it almost as regular as a heart beat.

The gun industry absolutely loves it and profits greatly from it. I know more than a handful of people who bought some platform of the AR-15 when there was fear of a ban. They paid premium prices for something that's still available by the boat-load.

There's a new Cabelas not far from where I live. Getting help at any of the gun counters requires taking a number almost any day of the week.
The tactical weapons area is extremely popular.

My personal experience with guns is that Americans love them. Guns aren't going away. Nobody is "coming to take them".
Guns are truly a part of the culture in the USofA.

These "gun grabbers" appear about as numerous and powerful as Aliens, Sasquatches, and Loch Ness monsters.

Are there a few highly vocal people out there who would like to see all guns banned? Sure.

Are they a serious and honest threat to gun owners in the USofA? Nope. Don't see it at all.
 
Dragonfly said:
I keep reading threads from people who insist on calling out "gun grabbers" as if there's a significant portion of the population of America that would like to ban all guns, from all people, all the time.

To me this always comes across as dishonest, fear-mongering propaganda.

So I thought I'd try to ask an honest question in hopes of getting an honest answer. :shock:

In your humble opinion, what percentage of all US citizens (of legal voting age) do you think want to make private citizens owning and firing any and all guns an illegal act?

Do you think it's an insignificant amount? Less than 5% of total population? Do you think it's a significant amount? Upwards of 45-50%?
Somewhere in-between? Is it an honest concern, or just a hot-button phrase used to basically subdue any "real" discussion in favor of propaganda and fear?
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That's not really the issue.


If I have to hire a lawyer to help me fill out a mountain of paperwork and wait five years for uncertain permission to buy one gun, which ownership is hemmed in with so many regulations and limitations that the gun is damn near useless to me (as it was in NYC and DC at one time), then for all intents and purposes that's as bad as an outright ban.
 
I don't know the answer, but I would around or less than 25%. Obviously most conservatives don't want to ban all guns - probably a high percentage and that's about 40-45% of the country. I'd be surprised if even half of liberals did - so that's like 20% at most. And even if 1/3 of independents did it would only add up to be around 25%..

25% is my final answer, Alex.
 
I would guess less than 10% would make guns completely illegal to own if they had their way. Many would put more restrictions in place than there are currently. Some would want fairly draconian restrictions I suspect, but I doubt all that many would want them completely banned.
 
I think it varies greatly depending on the type of weapons. If you say ALL...I would put the number somewhere around 25-30%. I you saw assault-style weapons I would put the number probably around 65%-70%. Handguns and Assault-style....probably around 50-60%. Hunting rifles....probably a lot less.
 
disneydude said:
I think it varies greatly depending on the type of weapons. If you say ALL...I would put the number somewhere around 25-30%. I you saw assault-style weapons I would put the number probably around 65%-70%. Handguns and Assault-style....probably around 50-60%. Hunting rifles....probably a lot less.
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I think your guesses are WAY off.

You think more than half of all people in the USofA want to ban all handguns?

How do you figure that?
 
Dragonfly said:
I keep reading threads from people who insist on calling out "gun grabbers" as if there's a significant portion of the population of America that would like to ban all guns, from all people, all the time.

To me this always comes across as dishonest, fear-mongering propaganda.

So I thought I'd try to ask an honest question in hopes of getting an honest answer. :shock:

In your humble opinion, what percentage of all US citizens (of legal voting age) do you think want to make private citizens owning and firing any and all guns an illegal act?

Do you think it's an insignificant amount? Less than 5% of total population? Do you think it's a significant amount? Upwards of 45-50%?
Somewhere in-between? Is it an honest concern, or just a hot-button phrase used to basically subdue any "real" discussion in favor of propaganda and fear?
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I think that the minority for a such a thing is much less that 5% and of those, I'd say there's about 1% that would answer a willy-nilly yes to a public poll without having any idea what they're talking about. It is the overwhelming amount of gun violence in this country that drives this kind of thinking and in my view it'll never come to pass. The gun nut mentality however is just paranoid. They're a weird sort of political movement.
 
Dragonfly said:
I think your guesses are WAY off.

You think more than half of all people in the USofA want to ban all handguns?

How do you figure that?
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Based on polling that I've seen. The electorate is pretty even split on handguns from what I have seen. Maybe I'm wrong....who knows.
 
Dragonfly said:
I keep reading threads from people who insist on calling out "gun grabbers" as if there's a significant portion of the population of America that would like to ban all guns, from all people, all the time.

To me this always comes across as dishonest, fear-mongering propaganda.

So I thought I'd try to ask an honest question in hopes of getting an honest answer. :shock:

In your humble opinion, what percentage of all US citizens (of legal voting age) do you think want to make private citizens owning and firing any and all guns an illegal act?

Do you think it's an insignificant amount? Less than 5% of total population? Do you think it's a significant amount? Upwards of 45-50%?
Somewhere in-between? Is it an honest concern, or just a hot-button phrase used to basically subdue any "real" discussion in favor of propaganda and fear?
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I'm guessing somewhere around 5 to 10-ish percent. Most Dems don't support that, and of course very few Republicans do. I really think it's just a bunch of propoganda.

And now I'm going to look it up...

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Whew, that was harder to find than I thought. Not too far off. Looks like about 13% as of 2013, according to this particular poll. See figure 4.

https://www.americanprogress.org/is...092/what-the-public-really-thinks-about-guns/

And as the poll results show, most people are drastically over-estimating how many people want to totally ban guns.
 
many gun banners realize the danger in promoting a complete gun ban and won't admit to being gun banners but merely supporting "the next reasonable step"

other gun banners claim banning say all pistols or "assault weapons" doesn't make them gun banners but
if you believe banning a class of guns will prevent criminals from getting them, you are a gun banner

about 30% believe in banning some guns and that makes them gun banners
 
Dragonfly said:
You think 1 out of every 3 people in the entire USofA wants to complete and total ban on all firearms?????
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one out of three want to currently ban some firearms and thus have made the decision that banning firearms is a solution to a problem. they have adopted the mindset to support more and more bans when the ones they favor don't work
 
Threegoofs said:
Asking this question in the gun forum is like asking a toddler what percentage of the population wants to take all his candy away and eat it all up. The paranoia of some gun nuts runs quite high - and its possibly one of the reasons they accumulate and worship their guns.
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its funny watching far lefties whine about paranoia when they insult gun owners. There is no doubt that if someone like you were in power, you'd push all sorts of idiotic restrictions on gun owners given how much hatred you demonstrate for gun owners in your posts

insulting gun owners and then calling them paranoid is pretty much silly
 
iacardsfan said:
30% or more
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Lol, ok dude, whatever you say.

Since we're all in the mood, apparently, to strip away constitutional rights, let's do away with the first amendment. Everytime the "protesters" gather in places like Ferguson, NYC, Occupy Wall Street...etc, it just ends up with a bunch of people firebombing buildings, damaging property, murder, robbing liquor stores, doing drugs in the streets while blocking traffic...it's just a mess. If we get rid of guns, we need to get rid of the right to "protest".

See? We just set a precedent. If we get rid of one of our bill of rights, we can get rid of them all!
 
jet57 said:
I think that the minority for a such a thing is much less that 5% and of those, I'd say there's about 1% that would answer a willy-nilly yes to a public poll without having any idea what they're talking about. It is the overwhelming amount of gun violence in this country that drives this kind of thinking and in my view it'll never come to pass. The gun nut mentality however is just paranoid. They're a weird sort of political movement.
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gun haters want to have it both ways

they want to pretend gun owners are paranoid saying you all are using tragedies to advance gun bans yet we see what happened in NY. a ten round limit was expanded to a 7 round limit based on two shooting that involved 30 round magazines.

anyone who thinks laws directed only at lawful gun owners stops criminals has adopted the mind set of a gun banner because they are stating that the rights of lawful gun owners are subordinate to "DOING SOMETHING" even if it doesn't work


proper laws-punishing people for misusing guns or banning those who have used guns feloniously from owning them

gun banner nonsense-magazine limits, waiting periods, machine gun bans etc-those only impact honest people since criminals cannot have any guns, whether they are automatic or not, or take a magazine or not
 
TurtleDude said:
its funny watching far lefties whine about paranoia when they insult gun owners. There is no doubt that if someone like you were in power, you'd push all sorts of idiotic restrictions on gun owners given how much hatred you demonstrate for gun owners in your posts

insulting gun owners and then calling them paranoid is pretty much silly
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Well, I just read a thread on the gun 'control' forum on how the gun owners in the US will be able to resist the US military in case of, you know, tyranny. It brought out the paranoid right wing crazies and their fantasies of how they were going to resist said tyranny, and how millions would support them, and how small arms clearly would dominate large technological forces and drones, and even (swear to god) take down large amounts of police with a sniper rifle because they would shoot police snipers first. You could tell that some of these people really have thought hard about their little vigilante fantasies.

That seems paranoid to me, so calling those types of gun owners paranoid is not an insult, its a statement of fact.
 
Dragonfly said:
I keep reading threads from people who insist on calling out "gun grabbers" as if there's a significant portion of the population of America that would like to ban all guns, from all people, all the time.

To me this always comes across as dishonest, fear-mongering propaganda.

So I thought I'd try to ask an honest question in hopes of getting an honest answer. :shock:

In your humble opinion, what percentage of all US citizens (of legal voting age) do you think want to make private citizens owning and firing any and all guns an illegal act?

Do you think it's an insignificant amount? Less than 5% of total population? Do you think it's a significant amount? Upwards of 45-50%?
Somewhere in-between? Is it an honest concern, or just a hot-button phrase used to basically subdue any "real" discussion in favor of propaganda and fear?
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In this context this link is interesting: Growing Public Support for Gun Rights | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
 
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