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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
Mon Sep 26, 2016, 01:01 PM Sep 2016

Stronger gun laws top issue for women voters in 2016

http://www.guns.com/2016/09/21/stronger-gun-laws-top-issue-for-women-voters-in-2016/

Women voters ranked gun violence as a top security concern for this presidential election cycle, according to results of a survey measuring the female perspective published this week.

Beating out equal pay and women’s health, stronger gun laws topped the list for policies favored by women with 87 percent, according to the National Survey of Voters project “Women and the 2016 Elections.”

Sixty-two percent of all women polled said they were very concerned with gun violence and mass shootings, the results show. Demographics for that issue include 61 percent of millennial women, 79 percent women of color, and 66 percent unmarried women.

In that same vein, requiring a background check before a gun purchase and an assault weapons ban topped the list for voting issues. Sixty-four percent of women agreed along with 66 percent of millennials, 70 percent women of color and 62 percent unmarried women.


Perhaps more telling than the story itself is the neutral tone of the article at GUNS.COM. I noticed no pro gun or anti gun control lean.

Perhaps the reality of gun violence, the nation's abhorrence of gun violence and the absolute stonewalling of the gun lobby to prevent any meaningful dialog much less legislation.

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Stronger gun laws top issue for women voters in 2016 (Original Post) flamin lib Sep 2016 OP
K & R SunSeeker Sep 2016 #1
Your last sentence billh58 Sep 2016 #2

billh58

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2. Your last sentence
Mon Sep 26, 2016, 03:04 PM
Sep 2016

says it all. ALL thinking people are extremely tired of the right-wing promotion of "guns for everyone, everywhere" and the violence and mayhem that idiotic marketing stance brings.

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