Comments on: Is Gun Control a City vs. Country Debate?

By: Is Gun Control Really an Urban vs. Rural Debate?

Is Gun Control Really an Urban vs. Rural Debate? — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 20:34:22 +0000

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By: caryatis

caryatis — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:17:00 +0000

You can’t refute evidence about what Americans think with evidence about the political positions of sheriffs.

By: CassandraP

CassandraP — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 06:07:00 +0000

You appear to be using “Arizona” as a shorthand for “Phoenix” in this post, which is a bit awkward. There are six counties in Arizona that have approved notably permissive gun laws; four of them are indisputably rural, and a fifth (Pinal) is arguable at best. There are nine counties that haven’t approved the new laws, and again, most of them are overwhelmingly rural. The largest cities in Arizona besides Phoenix are Tucson (Pima County, pro-gun control) and Flagstaff (Coconino County, also pro-gun control).

The question should probably be rephrased as “Why does the city of Phoenix believe that guns will make them safer, when most other metro areas appear to believe the opposite?”

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Sun, 23 Jun 2013 13:34:06 +0000

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By: Yrro Simyarin

Yrro Simyarin — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 03:21:00 +0000

Tracking the position of local police chiefs doesn’t get you any farther than tracking the political positions of local legislators. It’s a political position more than a professional one in almost all jurisdictions. You see significant variance between polling of police chiefs and polling of rank and file officers on this and many other issues where people think that police have a unique perspective.

By: fredschumacher

fredschumacher — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 00:28:00 +0000

One factor operating on Arizona may be that it has a large population of rural people from other states, especially northern ones, who have retired to or winter-over in urban Arizona. Sometimes it feels as if half of North Dakota’s over-70 population is in Mesa, Arizona during the winter.