A national poll on gun ownership by Politico and Morning Consult that was reported in The Hill included an interesting note: Just over two-thirds of the participants say nobody in their household owns a gun of any kind.
TGM discovered this by simply perusing the survey. The data is on Page 11, Question 13. The Hill reported this survey showed “Approximately 2 in 3 Americans…said that they support greater restrictions on gun ownership,” but the fact that two-thirds of the respondents are non-gun owners raises questions about whether this may have skewed the results.
The Politico-Morning Consult poll was conducted April 9-12 and includes responses from 1,992 registered voters. But 1,327 of those respondents aren’t gun owners while only 665 said they live in a household where someone owns a firearm, according to .
Here are some of the survey results:
45 percent (896) think Democrats in Congress are trusted more than Republicans, who are trusted by 34 percent (669) to handle gun policy.
46 percent (924) think it is more important to limit gun ownership than it is to protect the right of Americans to own guns (44 percent (884).
65 percent support banning so-called “high capacity magazines” while only 23 percent oppose such a ban.
64 percent support banning so-called “assault weapons” while only 25 percent oppose a ban
73 percent support requiring a three-day waiting period on gun purchases while only 17 percent oppose a wait.
70 percent want to require so-called “safe storage” of firearms while 18 percent are opposed.
70 percent (1,395) support “creating a national database with information about each gun sale, while 20 percent (393) do not and 10 percent (204) have no opinion.
Still, when it comes to repealing the Second Amendment, 55 percent oppose the idea while 23 percent support a repeal and 22 percent surprisingly have no opinion or simply don’t know. So, even non-gun owners, it appears, are not keen on the idea of erasing the amendment protecting the right to keep and bear arms from the Bill of Rights.
Another interesting survey revelation was that more people blame Republicans in Congress (40%) than Democrats (28%) for mass shootings. And 21 percent blame Joe Biden, but 67 percent do not.
Forty-five percent blame the National Rifle Association for mass shootings while 76 percent blame illegal gun dealers, which is an odd result because in most recent mass shootings the killers legally purchased guns from licensed dealers and passed background checks in the process. The NRA does not sell firearms, so perhaps it is the organizations policy of defending the Second Amendment that is blamed.
