Does the US Constitution guarantee the right of individuals to own guns?
ABC News.com Poll
8-12 May 2002
N=1,028 adults nationwide. Field work by TNS Intersearch. MoE ± 3.
“The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution reads as follows: ‘A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.’ In your opinion does this guarantee only the right of the states to maintain militias, or also the right of individuals to own guns?”
| % | |
| States to maintain militias | 20 |
| Individuals to own guns | 73 |
| No opinion | 8 |
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