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Originally Posted by kirant
Part of it is just a mentality thing. I've done online straw polling and most Americans (that I polled. I can't say whether or not they reflect the population's opinion) seem against adjustments to the Second Ammendment no matter what they're political stripes.
Even more unsual to me is the trend of crime in the US related to it. I don't have the numbers on me (I did this 3 years ago out and posted it once on a forum), but I did a firearm crime per gun in country calculation for all major countries. There was generally a negative correlation between % owning guns and firearm crime/gun ratecapita...which implies that almost every owner of a gun is perfectly good with it. The exception was the US, which led both in % of population with guns and firearms crimes/firearmcapita. It completely bucked the trend.
Of course, this was also done out of casual interest, so I'm not sure you can draw many results from it...especially when I can't remember the exact numbers!
EDIT - Found the post...it's capita, not firearm.
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I find it to be quite regional. Here in NYC there are incredibly restrictive gun laws, and Bloomberg is largely praised for it. I find that there are very few people in this region that would be against laws that restrict access to handguns etc. I'm not sure that there's much thought to rifles and the like as the hunting culture really isn't present. On the other hand, living in Michigan there were plenty of people who had a sense of paranoia towards any sort of restriction on gun ownership. They didn't think it was right that anyone could get a handgun, but they weren't going to support laws to prevent it.