Twitter chat: How the gun control debate mirrors larger issues of partisanship in America

What would it be necessary to transform Texas, a republican bastion, in a blue state? According to SurveyMonkey data, simply remove all Lone Start Firearms owners from the Lone Status and he went to Hillary Clinton in 2016. You can do the same in Liberal California. Remove all non-army owners and the state would have voted for Donald Trump.

This is how the question of firearms control in American politics is found.

Surveymonkey found that no other demographic group – not race, religion or sex – so perfectly divided voters. During the 2016 elections, 47% of Trump supporters said that control of firearms was a problem enough to influence their vote. It is compared to only 27% of voters who supported Hillary Clinton.

But what does this fracture mean? How does this have an impact on the policy of control of firearms and how could this problem change in the light of recent mass fire like Las Vegas, Orlando and Newtown? To discuss the data, the PBS Newshour organized a Twitter cat at 1 p.m. PM on Thursday with the Dante Chinni data journalist (@Dchinni), professor and president of political science at the University of Kansas Don Haider-Markel (@Dhmarkel) and the Washington Post Philip Bump correspondent (@pbump).

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