Not a participation poll, but here is an article from AP about a telephone poll conducted last Tuesday through Thursday regarding gun control with a sampling of 1,000 people:
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a ... 5009990003.
The article opens with, "The nation is profoundly split along gender, racial and other lines over gun violence and what the government should do to control it, despite near-universal sorrow over the Virginia Tech shootings, an AP-Ipsos poll has found."
A PDF file of the actual poll results can be found at
http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/client/act ... df&id=3449.
Some interesting info in the response data. For example,
62% of the respondents answered "Very Serious" to the question, "How serious a problem is gun violence today?" Yet to the question, "How often do you worry about becoming a victim of gun violence?"
65% answered "Rarely" or "Never." And
22% responded that they
personally knew someone who had been a victim of a crime that involved a handgun in the past three years.
De Nile is not just river in Egypt (see my recent repost of
"On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs").
An unhappy statistic is one to the question, "Would you be more or less likely to support a candidate for president who favors stricter gun control laws?" "More Likely,"
55%; "Less Likely,"
32%. Explaining that somewhat,
50% of the respondents consider themselves to be Democrat,
35% Republican.