A focus group comprised of eleven people isn’t a big sample size, but if nothing else it at least offers a glimpse of what a handful of Georgia residents are looking for from lawmakers in response to the shootings at Apalachee High School.
As Axios reports, the folks Engagious and Sago spoke to on Wednesday night were largely united on at least a couple of things, but an “assault weapons” ban wasn’t one of them.
Axios sat in on two Engagious/Sago online focus groups Wednesday night with 11 Georgians who voted for Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020. Eight are independents and three are Democrats.
All said they support proposals to aggressively prosecute and penalize parents who provide guns to children or who fail to safely store their weapons.
Yes, and: 10 focus group members also supported increasing access to mental health services.
Yes, but: The group was split on whether to enact a federal ban on assault weapons like the AR-15.
Interestingly, one focus group was almost entirely supportive of a ban on so-called assault weapons, while the other group was almost entirely opposed, which makes me wonder if there were some peer pressure dymanics at work for one or both groups. […]
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