By Zachary Schermele -
NBC News
A vast majority of more than 1,000 registered Latino voters in seven battleground states support gun reforms and abortion access, according to poll data released Wednesday by Voto Latino, a national advocacy group focused on mobilizing Latinos. Latino youth.
The online poll, conducted by the San Francisco-based polling firm Change Research in early June, showed that
86% of respondents thought mass shootings in the United States are a major problem or crisis.
Voters surveyed overwhelmingly supported a range of gun law reform measures, including 82% who strongly support requiring background checks on all gun purchases.
The voters surveyed were registered in
Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas.
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Almost 90% supported, to some extent or strongly, a requirement that people who want to buy a firearm receive safety training, and about two-thirds supported, to some extent or strongly, a ban on assault weapons.
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Respondents also overwhelmingly approved raising the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21, as well as enforcing 'red flag' laws - designed to keep guns away from people considered to be a risk to themselves or others. others – and mandatory waiting periods, among other reforms.
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Improved background checks and incentives for states to adopt "red flag" laws are among the few provisions in the bipartisan federal gun bill now before the Senate.
More than two-thirds of Latinos surveyed believe that abortion should be legal
in most or all cases, with the highest approval among young people under 35 and women.
Among those surveyed, 65% said they would support a law to protect the right to abortion care across the U.S. Nearly two-thirds said they would be "more motivated" to vote in November as a result of the opinion's leak Supreme Court that would overturn the landmark decision on abortion rights Roe v.
Wade.
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The poll has a margin of error of 3.1%.
In a press release, María Teresa Kumar, president and CEO of Voto Latino and MSNBC political commentator, said she believes it
is "time to end the myth that Latinos oppose access to abortion."
She also called concern about gun violence among Latino voters "visceral."
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"At a time when mass shootings and attacks on abortion access are at the center of our national politics,
Latino voters are looking for candidates who support common sense gun policy as well as reproductive rights
," Kumar said. .
"These issues are not a benefit to progressive candidates seeking support from Latinos, but rather are an important promotional point. In battleground states, Latino voters directly support Democratic policies on these contentious issues."