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The gun debate after El Paso and Dayton
The poll — conducted after the shootings in El Paso and Dayton — also shows broad support for individual gun-control measures:

89 percent say they favor Congress expanding background checks to all firearm sales and transfers, including 75 percent who “strongly” support that;

76 percent back “red flag” laws that help law enforcement temporarily remove guns from those deemed to pose a danger to themselves or others;

75 percent support a voluntary program where the government would buy back firearms that people no longer want;

and 62 percent favor banning the sale of selected semi-automatic firearms referred to as assault weapons.




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Support for free trade reaches new high in NBC/WSJ poll
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Sun, 18 Aug 19 3:37 PM 		Msg. 52185 of 65535

Support for free trade reaches new high in NBC/WSJ poll
Amid the ongoing trade war with China, nearly two-thirds of Americans say they support free trade in the latest NBC News/WSJ poll.

Aug. 18, 2019, 9:00 AM EDT
By Mark Murray

WASHINGTON — Amid President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, nearly two-thirds of Americans say they support free trade with foreign countries, according to the latest national poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.

That represents an all-time high in the NBC/WSJ survey on this question, and it’s a 7-point increase from the last time it was asked in 2017.

Among other findings in the poll, overwhelming majorities support certain gun-control measures, even as the country remains divided on whether the government should restrict access to guns. Those sentiments come in the wake of the shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio that killed more than 30 people.

And Trump’s political standing remains in dangerous territory ahead of his re-election fight next year, with just four-in-10 Americans approving of his job and saying they’ll vote for him in 2020. 

“This is not an attractive set of numbers for an incumbent,” said Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted this survey with the Democratic pollsters from Hart Research Associates.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/support-free-trade-reaches-new-high-nbc-wsj-poll-n1043601

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