{"id":90602,"date":"2018-04-23T12:01:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T16:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=90602"},"modified":"2018-04-23T12:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T19:06:32","slug":"harvard-poll-58-percent-of-americans-under-30-support-banning-assault-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/harvard-poll-58-percent-of-americans-under-30-support-banning-assault-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning &#8216;Assault Weapons&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_90682\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gastatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StudentsHarvard.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"harvard-poll-58-percent-of-americans-under-30-support-banning-assault-weapons\" title=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90682\" title=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StudentsHarvard-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StudentsHarvard-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StudentsHarvard-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StudentsHarvard-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StudentsHarvard.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<em>Photo: Teens for Gun Reform<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Maybe we can chalk this up to post-Parkland hysteria or maybe we can\u2019t. But a new poll indicates that 64 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 support tougher gun laws.<\/p>\n<p>As it specifically relates to black rifles, what gun-grabbers call \u201cassault weapons,\u201d 58 percent of voters under 30 support a ban, according to a survey conducted by <a href=\"https:\/\/harvardpolitics.com\/united-states\/harvard-youth-poll-millennials-not-locked-and-loaded\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"harvard-poll-58-percent-of-americans-under-30-support-banning-assault-weapons\" title=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\">Harvard University\u2019s Institute of Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Only five years ago, support for a black rifle ban amongst that same demographic was at 41 percent. And that was in 2013, on the heels of the high-profile mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor several years, the opinions of young Democrats, Republicans and independents have been steadily shifting toward greater support for gun control measures,\u201d said John Della Volpe, the institute\u2019s polling director, in an interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2018\/04\/18\/new-poll-shows-growing-support-for-stricter-gun-control-among-younger-americans\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.579089fd6483\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"harvard-poll-58-percent-of-americans-under-30-support-banning-assault-weapons\" title=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\">Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difference today is that the Parkland students have created an environment where the lack of progress on reducing gun violence is now symbolic of all the ills plaguing Washington, D.C.,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was conducted back in March. Over 2,600 young adults were surveyed and the results are said to have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/support-gun-control-you-child-hating-bigot\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"harvard-poll-58-percent-of-americans-under-30-support-banning-assault-weapons\" title=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\" rel=\"bookmark\">Support Gun Control You Child Hating Bigot!!<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>I checked Gallup to see if it had similar findings. But the last time it polled the public on the question of \u201cassault weapons\u201d was back in October. Days after a psycho shot up a country music concert in Las Vegas, killing 58 and wounding hundreds more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_90679\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gastatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6qciuw9t5kqjbwdlm2wjow.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"harvard-poll-58-percent-of-americans-under-30-support-banning-assault-weapons\" title=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90679\" title=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6qciuw9t5kqjbwdlm2wjow.png\" alt=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\" width=\"720\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6qciuw9t5kqjbwdlm2wjow.png 720w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6qciuw9t5kqjbwdlm2wjow-150x80.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6qciuw9t5kqjbwdlm2wjow-400x214.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The trend as it relates to banning black rifles.\u00a0 This is all age groups, not just youngsters. (<em>Photo: Gallup<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gallup\u2019s results indicated a 50\/50 split. Approximately half support the ban and half opposed. But that metric reflects all respondents, not just those under 30. Still, one would think that it might be higher given the wave of anti-gun sentiment that pervades the airwaves following a national tragedy like Vegas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_90680\" style=\"width: 797px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gastatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-20-at-10.18.16-AM.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"harvard-poll-58-percent-of-americans-under-30-support-banning-assault-weapons\" title=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90680\" title=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-20-at-10.18.16-AM.png\" alt=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\" width=\"787\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-20-at-10.18.16-AM.png 787w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-20-at-10.18.16-AM-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-20-at-10.18.16-AM-400x225.png 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-20-at-10.18.16-AM-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A closer look at the breakdown.\u00a0 (<em>Photo: Gallup<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So, what gives?\u00a0 Why was Parkland more impactful?\u00a0 Well, it certainly had more staying power in the public consciousness when compared to other tragedies.\u00a0 No doubt that was a result of non-stop media coverage and protests funded by Michael Bloomberg and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/george-clooney-donates-500k-gun-control-march-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"harvard-poll-58-percent-of-americans-under-30-support-banning-assault-weapons\" title=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\">other elites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The CNN graph below shows Google searches of gun control after mass killings.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll notice that the Parkland peaks (in purple) are higher than many of the others listed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_90678\" style=\"width: 1015px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gastatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-20-at-11.24.12-AM.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"harvard-poll-58-percent-of-americans-under-30-support-banning-assault-weapons\" title=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90678\" title=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-20-at-11.24.12-AM.png\" alt=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning 'Assault Weapons'\" width=\"1005\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-20-at-11.24.12-AM.png 1005w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-20-at-11.24.12-AM-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-20-at-11.24.12-AM-400x251.png 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-20-at-11.24.12-AM-768x481.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1005px) 100vw, 1005px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google searches after mass killings. (<em>Photo: Google\/CNN<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Are we seeing a real shift in opinion on modern sporting rifles, particularly amongst millennials?\u00a0 Probably too early to tell.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll need more data from other reputable pollsters to make a real determination.\u00a0 Yet, I&#8217;d be lying if I said I wasn&#8217;t unnerved by the results of the Harvard poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it specifically relates to black rifles, what gun-grabbers call \u201cassault weapons,\u201d 58 percent of voters under 30 support a ban, according to the survey conducted by Harvard University\u2019s Institute of Politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":90682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,216],"tags":[132,607,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning &#039;Assault Weapons&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A majority of youngsters favor banning black rifles if we are to believe a new poll conducted by Harvard University&#039;s Institute of Politics.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/harvard-poll-58-percent-of-americans-under-30-support-banning-assault-weapons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning &#039;Assault Weapons&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As it specifically relates to black rifles, what gun-grabbers call \u201cassault weapons,\u201d 58 percent of voters under 30 support a ban, according to the survey conducted by Harvard University\u2019s Institute of Politics.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/harvard-poll-58-percent-of-americans-under-30-support-banning-assault-weapons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-04-23T16:01:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-30T19:06:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StudentsHarvard.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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