On the issue of gun rights, a small majority — 50-45 percent — said protecting gun rights is more important than controlling gun ownership, but they opposed by a nearly 2-1 ratio ending the state’s limit of one handgun purchase per month.
On the issue of guns on college campuses, 75-20 percent said they should not be allowed.The Washington Post does note that this poll was taken days after the recent shooting at Virginia Tech, which is sure to sway some people's emotions. And I'll note that the poll was taken together with a poll on uranium mining in Virginia. That's such an odd combination that I wouldn't doubt that Quinnipiac University hastily inserted the firearms questions because of the Dec. 8 shooting.
Still, it's not good news.
Um...I don't think they polled anyone in my neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteSide note: I've been following the uranium mining thing closely. Did you know that south central Virginia (one of the most depressed areas of the state) sits on top of the largest underground uranium deposit in the world? We have the technology today to mine it safely, with no harm to the environment.
Our state government has not forbidden mining the uranium, they just won't make a decision on how it should be 'regulated', and of course the rabid tree-huggers have been sceaming at every turn about how we're all going to die if anybody touches that stuff.
They didn't poll me, either. But keep in mind the state's biggest population is in NoVA, which consists of in large part Marylanders seeking refuge from the crap that is Maryland only to insist on the same old BS again.
ReplyDeleteInteresting info about the uranium.