Hispanics Overwhelmingly Support Stricter Gun Control Measures

[AuH20]

Top to bottom socialists it seems. Remember that close to 70% support Obamacare. There is definitely a cultural disconnect of some kind which goes far beyond any political miscommunication by Republicans.

http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/media-center/pr038-11.shtml

Among the poll’s key findings:

69 percent of Latino voters believe laws governing the sale of guns should be stronger and 24 percent believe laws should be kept as they are now, and only five percent of Latinos believe gun laws should be less strict.
A large majority of Latinos, including more than 70 percent of Latino Republicans, Latino gun owners and Latinos over 50, believe that people from other states should not be allowed to carry a loaded and concealed gun in their state unless they meet their state’s legal requirements.
Nearly nine in ten Latinos – 86 percent – support requiring all gun buyers to pass a criminal background check, no matter where they buy the gun and no matter who they buy it from. Today, only federally licensed gun dealers are required to perform background checks, although 40 percent of U.S. gun sales are conducted through unlicensed sellers.
76 percent of Latinos favor a new Obama Administration program requiring gun dealers in border states to report when someone attempts to buy more than one semi-automatic assault rifle within a five-day period.

 

[jkob]

Polls on this are completely useless right now and ridiculously bias regardless given the wording. The hysteria will soon pass.

 

[AuH20]

Polls on this are completely useless right now and ridiculously bias regardless given the wording. The hysteria will soon pass.

True. But this poll was conducted last year. It's probably upward of 75% if taken today. LOL

 

[FreeHampshire]

It's working out great in Mexico. Criminals have guns, while peaceful Mormon types in safe communities are denied access to guns except for hunting or shooting ranges.

 

[AuH20]

It's working out great in Mexico. Criminals have guns, while peaceful Mormon types in safe communities are denied access to guns except for hunting or shooting ranges.

Roughly 50,000 Mexicans were killed the last 6 years in a nation where private gun ownership is practically non-existent.

 

[cbrons]

Polls on this are completely useless right now and ridiculously bias regardless given the wording. The hysteria will soon pass.

True. Question is will the hysteria be over in time for the Feinstein-NAZI "assault" on your rights ban?

 

[Anti Federalist]

True. But this poll was conducted last year. It's probably upward of 75% if taken today. LOL

Zing!

That's gotta hurt.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Roughly 50,000 Mexicans were killed the last 6 years in a nation where private gun ownership is practically non-existent.

Well, it helps if the nation to the north uses official government policy to arm drug warlords.

 

[Rudeman]

You're quoting a poll from mayors against illegal guns? Might as well be quoting from Democratic Underground.

BTW there was a gallup poll (posted in a thread earlier today) stating that 63% of the people polled would support a ban on auto and semi-auto guns.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Don't know where you're getting your info,I don't know anyone in my entire extended family who supports banning guns. Fuck this race baiting bullshit

 

[AuH20]

Don't know where you're getting your info,I don't know anyone in my entire extended family who supports banning guns. Fuck this race baiting bullshit

I'm not race baiting anyone. It's a cultural issue as opposed to a race issue. Experiences and environment mold a philosophy, for good or bad. Most hispanics hail from locales where gun violence is prevalent or has been prevalent during past periods of societal upheaval (take El Salvador for example). This isn't shocking that they would be averse to firearms on average or assign a negative connotation to firearm ownership, given their harrowing experiences with such instruments of death.

 

[aGameOfThrones]

A few years ago a lady got killed who had her application papers for a gun permit laying on her table the same day she got killed(It takes a while to get a gun permit in puerto Rico). BTW, she was killed by a worker she fired for stealing, after he began making threats she decided to apply for the permit.

 

[Confederate]

Roughly 50,000 Mexicans were killed the last 6 years in a nation where private gun ownership is practically non-existent.

That's not totally true. Firearm ownership in Mexico is actually quite common outside cities. The Mexican Constitution also guarantees the right to a firearm within the home (it was modified in 1971 removing the right to bear arms outside the home).

Article 10: The inhabitants of the United Mexican States have the right keep to arms in their homes, for security and legitimate defense, with the exception of those prohibited by federal law and those reserved for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy, Air Force and National Guard. Federal law will determine the cases, conditions, requirements, and places in which the carrying of arms will be authorized to the inhabitants.

Of course there are a lot of limitations to what firearms can be possessed, such as the caliber (nothing above 9mm for pistols, for example), but the it's much less restrictive than DC was until Heller.

 

[John F Kennedy III]

Don't know where you're getting your info,I don't know anyone in my entire extended family who supports banning guns. Fuck this race baiting bullshit

I don't take it as race baiting.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I don't take it as race baiting.

Neither do I.

 

[Cody1]

No race baiting in here. It is most definitely a misguided culture phenomena, just like our vastly ill educated non hispanic population in America

 

[FreeHampshire]

That's not totally true. Firearm ownership in Mexico is actually quite common outside cities. The Mexican Constitution also guarantees the right to a firearm within the home (it was modified in 1971 removing the right to bear arms outside the home).

That's rather odd. The documentary on Vice concerning the Mormons in Mexico stated that the Mormons weren't allowed to carry guns unless its for hunting or at a gun range. Only the criminals had guns.

 

[tod evans]

Well, it helps if the nation to the north uses official government policy to arm drug warlords.

One of the most vile "Drug Warlords" in existence, Ms, Michele Leonhart "Lord" of the DEA

 

[truelies]

Top to bottom socialists it seems. Remember that close to 70% support Obamacare. There is definitely a cultural disconnect of some kind which goes far beyond any political miscommunication by Republicans.

http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/media-center/pr038-11.shtml

yeah...................worked great for them in Mexico didn't it.

 

[Neil Desmond]

My mother is from Colombia and I grew up speaking both English and Spanish as first languages, so I think I qualify as "hispanic."

I am totally opposed to gun bans and restrictions, and that includes conceal carry (to me, requiring a permit to conceal carry goes against the 2nd amendment).