Posted on 08/22/2022 10:06:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
With an estimated 300 million guns already in the US, how long would it take to deplete them if you outright outlawed them? 50 years? 100? Thus the stupidity of this approach.
“AP-NORC Poll: Most in US want stricter gun laws [barf]”
Why don’t the do the poll based on county? I’m sure 83% of the counties in the country would disagree with wanting stricter gun laws.
Reminds me of gun control initiative 676 in the state of Washington that was on the ballot in 1997.
The polls showed the voters in favor of it. The gun control people crowed about the polling results, only for it to go down in defeat at the ballot box.
“With about a month before the Nov. 4 election, supporters of the gun safety initiative in Washington were optimistic. Their polls showed 62 percent support for the measure, Initiative 676, which required trigger-locking devices on all handguns sold in the state and handgun safety licenses.
But voters rejected the initiative by 697,000 votes — 71 percent to 29 percent.”
https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1997121905
From the same bunch...
Note the involvement of Pearson in the above.
Bingo.
They out numbered the guards 100/1 but did nothing because most people care about one thing and one thing only.. themselves.. not enough of them were willing to charge the guards and possibly die to save others.
Gun control (and climate change) proponents know this and that’s why they’re looking at ways to get around those pesky voters.
Look up “environmental, social, and corporate governance” scoring. That’s what’s coming.
Please explain what you see as a red herring.
That sentence. Also, I question its veracity, but that’s off topic.
There was certainly a time in this country when most Americans would have wanted limitations on Blacks, Jews or Mormons.
If you want to believe a college poll, it’s your funeral. Particularly one that claims to represent “half of Republicans”.
And fifty two years ago these same groups were claiming that “Most people wanted registration of all firearms, and a ban on handguns!
Yet when actually put to a vote of the people the anti-gun radicals always lose.
They never cease.
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It’s completely on topic if you can read and follow simple logic. Since that’s easily open to reasonable question, I’ll explain.
The wishes of the majority are irrelevant in a republic if the question bring. Inside red are the inherent rights such as the second amendment.
I illustrated that point by referencing a time in this country, perhaps some time in the last hundred years ago when the majority of Americans would have easily wished to limit the rights of Blacks, Jews or Mormons. If you aren’t familiar with the way all three groups were hunted down, look it up.
My point is that even if a majority wants to limit the rights of a minority, it makes no difference. The second amendment is not subject to a majority vote.
I’m surprised that had to be explained to you.
WADR, I see no correlation. And the notion that “a majority” are for having their own rights taken away by government is itself a false notion that the poll’s alleged results fabricated; it cannot be compared to anything, much less an asserted (rather than proven) notion of a majority of Americans having the will to take others’ rights away.
And why are you capitalizing “blacks”?
I explained it to you. I can’t understand it for you. Youve shown me it’s pointless to explain things to you.
🐂💩 Perhaps amongst respondents to the query. It’s almost like they don’t care what the fly over folks say.
You explained nothing to me. You instead used a red herring and a supposition that has no evidence, not to mention stereotypes that the left uses (including capitalizing the word “black”).
Let me simply tell you that what you do think or say means less to me than what my beagle leaves in the back yard. Have I explained that adequately?
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