I do not think that the 80% is accurate. When people are actually told what UBC means, the people that I know that think they were for them are not. This is just the media spreading misinformation, like you are more likely to be killed by your own gun.
PolitiFact | Gabby Giffords says Americans "overwhelmingly" support expanding background checks
• CBS News poll, March 20-24, 2013. "Would you favor or oppose background checks on all potential gun buyers?" Favor: 90 percent. Oppose: 8 percent.
• Quinnipiac University poll, March 26-April 1, 2013. "Do you support or oppose requiring background checks for all gun buyers?" Support: 91 percent. Oppose: 8 percent.
• CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll, April 5-7, 2013: "Some proposals would require a background check on anyone attempting to purchase a gun in order to determine whether the prospective buyer has been convicted of a felony or has a mental health problem. Please tell me whether you would favor or oppose a background check for a prospective gun buyer under each of the following circumstances. ... If the buyer is trying to purchase a gun at a gun show." Favor: 83 percent. Oppose: 17 percent.
"If the buyer is trying to purchase a gun from another person who is not a gun dealer but owns one or more guns and wants to sell one of them." Favor: 70 percent. Oppose: 29 percent.
"If the buyer is purchasing a gun from a family member or receiving it as a gift." Favor: 54 percent. Oppose: 45 percent.
54% of americans support a background check even when giving a gun to a FAMILY MEMBER.
90% support a background check "all gun buyers".......90%..
Facts.. we should pay attention to them. Not try and ignore them or fight them, we should look at them. Attempt to educate those who think this way, not put our heads in the sand.
We do no service to our hobby, or rights, or our constitution when we ignore facts. Just because you don't like it, does not mean it's not true. Look at the 2012 election polls. Romney going to win in a landslide. And people actually believed it. Why look at facts; it's not what I want so see so I will make my own up.
Also it is a fact that you are more likely to be killed by a gun/your own gun, then to kill someone with a gun. Thats a fact. Now are you likely to be killed by a gun at all; NO!!! thats a fact as well. But when you bring a weapon in your home you need to be aware of that weapon and facts as to what can happen. To me I fail to see the difference in being killed by your own gun or someone else's gun. Your dead. The fact is owning a gun makes you more likely to be killed by a gun. But either way, both are VERY unlikely to happen. It's simply more likely if you do own a gun. The reason for that are still debatable for scientific purposes.
From a VERRRRRRRRYYYYYYY liberal site; (does not mean it's not true) just sayin.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/pro-gun-myths-fact-check
Myth #5: Keeping a gun at home makes you safer.
Fact-check: Owning a gun has been linked to higher risks of homicide, suicide, and accidental death by gun.
• For every time a gun is used in self-defense in the home, there are 7 assaults or murders, 11 suicide attempts, and 4 accidents involving guns in or around a home.
• 43% of homes with guns and kids have at least one unlocked firearm.
• In one experiment, one third of 8-to-12-year-old boyswho found a handgun pulled the trigger.
From a News Corp site (they own Fox News)
http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2013/mar/25/guns-protection-national-rifle-association
Academics such as John Lott and Gary Kleck have long claimed that more firearms reduce crime. But is this really the case? Stripped of machismo bluster, this is at heart a testable claim that merely requires sturdy epidemiological analysis. And this was precisely what Prof Charles Branas and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania examined in their 2009 paper investigating the link between gun possession and gun assault. They compared 677 cases in which people were injured in a shooting incident with 684 people living in the same area that had not suffered a gun injury. The researchers matched these "controls" for age, race and gender. They found that those with firearms were about 4.5 times more likely to be shot than those who did not carry, utterly belying this oft repeated mantra.
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