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The brainwashing has taken hold.... zombie youths listen to their leftist parents and media:
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Monday August 21 9:30 AM ET
Poll: Teens Back Gun Regulation
By DAVID HO, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - About nine out of 10 high school students support
gun-control measures such as criminal background checks and mandatory
trigger locks, according to a survey released Monday.
The same number of students said they favored requiring a safety course
and a license to purchase a handgun, and 96 percent supported registering
the weapons when purchased so they could be traced if necessary, said
Dennis Gilbert, a sociology professor at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y.
who designed the survey with his students.
``American high school students have a shockingly high level of exposure
to guns and gun violence,'' Gilbert said in an interview.
The polling firm Zogby International conducted the nationwide telephone
survey during three days in June by calling 1,005 high school sophomores,
juniors and seniors.
Students in the East and South were most likely to support gun control,
followed by those in the West and Midwest, the poll found.
A quarter of the students said they or someone close to them had been
shot in a situation unrelated to military combat. The proportion that rose
to nearly half for students living in cities with populations greater than
half a million.
One junior at an urban high school in the Midwest said a close friend had
been shot dead while playing basketball, while others reported hunting
accidents and other firearm mishaps, the study said.
While four out of five students said the government should keep guns
away from criminals even if it becomes harder for everyone else to
purchase them, the same number said Americans have a constitutional
right to own firearms.
Gilbert said the students were more likely than adults to support both
increased regulation and the right to own a gun.
``Maybe in their world there's just a lot more guns around and it seems
more compelling to them,'' he said.
Nearly half the students said they thought it would be easy for someone
their age to get a gun in their neighborhood, but only 6 percent described
their schools as unsafe.
The survey also found:
-More than 80 percent of high school students have discussed gun control
in school, at home or with friends.
-Of the girls questioned, 79 percent favored stricter gun laws, compared
with 52 percent of boys. Girls were also more likely to become involved
in gun-control activities.
The Alliance for Justice, a coalition of advocacy groups perhaps best
known for monitoring federal judicial nominations, released the study as
part of a campaign against gun violence.
The poll, financed by Hamilton College's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs
Center, had an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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Monday August 21 9:30 AM ET
Poll: Teens Back Gun Regulation
By DAVID HO, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - About nine out of 10 high school students support
gun-control measures such as criminal background checks and mandatory
trigger locks, according to a survey released Monday.
The same number of students said they favored requiring a safety course
and a license to purchase a handgun, and 96 percent supported registering
the weapons when purchased so they could be traced if necessary, said
Dennis Gilbert, a sociology professor at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y.
who designed the survey with his students.
``American high school students have a shockingly high level of exposure
to guns and gun violence,'' Gilbert said in an interview.
The polling firm Zogby International conducted the nationwide telephone
survey during three days in June by calling 1,005 high school sophomores,
juniors and seniors.
Students in the East and South were most likely to support gun control,
followed by those in the West and Midwest, the poll found.
A quarter of the students said they or someone close to them had been
shot in a situation unrelated to military combat. The proportion that rose
to nearly half for students living in cities with populations greater than
half a million.
One junior at an urban high school in the Midwest said a close friend had
been shot dead while playing basketball, while others reported hunting
accidents and other firearm mishaps, the study said.
While four out of five students said the government should keep guns
away from criminals even if it becomes harder for everyone else to
purchase them, the same number said Americans have a constitutional
right to own firearms.
Gilbert said the students were more likely than adults to support both
increased regulation and the right to own a gun.
``Maybe in their world there's just a lot more guns around and it seems
more compelling to them,'' he said.
Nearly half the students said they thought it would be easy for someone
their age to get a gun in their neighborhood, but only 6 percent described
their schools as unsafe.
The survey also found:
-More than 80 percent of high school students have discussed gun control
in school, at home or with friends.
-Of the girls questioned, 79 percent favored stricter gun laws, compared
with 52 percent of boys. Girls were also more likely to become involved
in gun-control activities.
The Alliance for Justice, a coalition of advocacy groups perhaps best
known for monitoring federal judicial nominations, released the study as
part of a campaign against gun violence.
The poll, financed by Hamilton College's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs
Center, had an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.