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..this place is monitored by the antis!
I wonder if that is why they picked the ex Gresham police chief to push that new HB3223. Our site contains posts linking to surveys of street cops who by a huge majority say these anti-gun laws do not affect anything. Some even think it makes things worse.
Here are some:
Police on the street overwhelmingly support gun rights for citizens without police records. Street cops are not political appointees, so they don't have to say what the mayor says.
How about asking experts? What do cops say about guns and violent crime?
Police officers overwhelmingly say it is more important to protect the rights of Americans to own guns than it is to control gun ownership (74% of officers vs. 53% of the public). (Pew Social Trends, January 2017)
The National Association of Chiefs of Police polled 20,000 sheriffs and police officers. 76% say that armed citizens help law enforcement reduce violent crime. They are more pro-gun than the general public. This links to their survey results:
https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/NACOP-surveyresults-2016.pdf
PoliceOne, an organization of about 380,000 active and 70,000 retired officers, surveyed 16,000 members on the gun control in 2013.
71% say a ban on so-called "assault weapons" would have no effect on violent crime.
20% say it would make crime worse. This is a link to their results
http://ddq74coujkv1i.cloudfront.net/p1_gunsurveysummary_2013.pdf
These are the experts. These are the guys I believe. And when companies like Gallup survey Americans, they poll 1000-2000 people and extrapolate. These two polls were 20,000 and 16,000 cops respectively. So the confidence level is huge.