[Sender]

The way they got that 90% number is by the way they asked the questions. They may have said, "Do you support keeping guns out of the hands of the dangerously mentally ill?" and of course 90% of people would say yes.

If they had said, "Do you support creating a national gun registry and subpoena of all your most confidential medical records against your will?" they would have gotten a very different number.

[sappy]

It’s just crazy. Most of the people posting their dislike of the failure of this bill have not even bothered to read below the fold. They hear Obama say, the NRA and Gun Rights Advocates lied. That’s why even Harry Reid, who initially said he’d vote his conscience, discovered the bill wouldn’t pass then voted against his conscience so it could be brought up again. Talk about filth bag!

[JimRed]

They may have said, "Do you support keeping guns out of the hands of the dangerously mentally ill?" and of course 90% of people would say yes.

Anyone who cannot be trusted to be armed should not be running around loose.