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Americans Clearly Divided on Gun Control
Angus Reid Global Monitor ^ | December 26, 2007 | NA

Posted on 12/26/2007 10:10:53 AM PST by neverdem

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Public Remains Divided on Gun Control

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Notice how Angus Reid ignored Jeanne Assam in Colorado.

1 posted on 12/26/2007 10:10:53 AM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

No armed government with unarmed populace. Live free or die. I am keeping my gun.


2 posted on 12/26/2007 10:15:12 AM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: neverdem
What kills me is the folks who scream “get your laws off my body” and that abortion is in the Constitution are the ones trying to put their laws on my guns while declaring the second amendment does not allow me to possess a firearm.

Loons.

3 posted on 12/26/2007 10:15:12 AM PST by Vision (Thompson/Hunter '08)
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To: neverdem

I think only the mentally fit should be able to enjoy First Amendment rights (sarc). I wonder how the American people would respond to a pollster who asked that kind of question.


4 posted on 12/26/2007 10:15:28 AM PST by demshateGod (Duncan Hunter for President)
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To: neverdem
Notice how Angus Reid ignored Jeanne Assam in Colorado.

I'm sure that was just an inadvertent oversight. </sarcasm>

5 posted on 12/26/2007 10:22:44 AM PST by Bob
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To: neverdem

The author of this article failed to note the complete prohibition of guns on the VT campus, which is the end-popint of “stricter laws” and the fact the massacre still happened. Furthermore, the article places the two positions between “more laws are needed” and “more laws aren’t needed” without allowing the possibility that “too many laws are present and should be repealed.” For example, the prohibition at VT that allowed the shooter to rack up such a high death toll without opposition or resistance.


6 posted on 12/26/2007 10:22:47 AM PST by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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To: neverdem
42 per cent of respondents believe their country needs stricter gun control...

It isn't up for debate or compromise. The right to keep and bear arms is not a right because the government grants it - instead, the government is only legitimate because it recognizes the right. Push enough gun control and the effort will spawn a civil war.

7 posted on 12/26/2007 10:24:26 AM PST by M203M4 (True Universal Suffrage: Pets of dead illegal-immigrant felons voting Democrat (twice))
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To: neverdem
What amuses me, is the fact that all the examples listed were already “gun-free zones” meaning that guns shouldn’t have been there in the first place. Seems to me if we had less “gun free zones” and more folks carrying, then we’d have less of these massacres...
8 posted on 12/26/2007 10:24:34 AM PST by Kidan (Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: neverdem

The first question is a setup:

1. How closely have you followed recent news stories about shootings in Colorado?


9 posted on 12/26/2007 10:26:14 AM PST by donna (Duncan Hunter: US Army, 1969-1971, with service in Vietnam)
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To: neverdem

42 to 44 percent, but which way is it moving?


10 posted on 12/26/2007 10:28:30 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( "Do well, but remember to do good.")
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To: neverdem

I noticed


11 posted on 12/26/2007 10:28:47 AM PST by PeteB570 (Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
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To: neverdem
Notice how Angus Reid ignored Jeanne Assam in Colorado.

I did notice that. Every year hundreds of home invasions, robberies, etc. are foiled when the intended victim is able to defend himself with a firearm.

This is never mentioned in these gun control pieces.

I'll be keeping my guns. And if Hillary gets elected, we'll be needing them more than ever.

12 posted on 12/26/2007 10:30:44 AM PST by cowboyway
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13 posted on 12/26/2007 10:32:27 AM PST by Daffynition (The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
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To: Kidan; Xenalyte

Where I live they don’t have any like free gun zones; I know because i’ve had to go to the gun store and pay for one, well I’d have to pay if they would acutallyy wiiat on me; the basturds always through me out. I dunno, it’s like they won’t sell you a gun if you had a few drinks, you know. I evne volonteered to do the wait thing till they todl me it was three days which I pointed out was why i’d come in with the bottle in a bag, I mean, you don’t expect I gotta sit at hte store for 3 damned days with nothing to dow fro crise sake, and then what, they throwed me out.

So where are those free gun zones anyway?


14 posted on 12/26/2007 10:32:48 AM PST by glide625
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To: neverdem

There aren’t a whole lot of things I view as political absolutes or imperatives; the second amendment is one of them. My message to the libs on this one is simple: I’m willing to die trying to defend the amendment; are you willing to die trying to take it away from me?


15 posted on 12/26/2007 10:33:21 AM PST by damondonion
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To: neverdem
I had an dream last night about two men in Wal Mart who had their guns on their hips and they were dressed in western style attire.

Out of curiously I asked the men how come they are not concealing their guns per our state laws.

The man came right out and said would you rather me have it handy or have to take the time to reach down and have to retrieve it if some nut case decides to go on a rampage.

Mmmm rather you had it handy.

So I guess in my dream I didnt realize the law changed.

Have no clue where that was in my mind that I had to dream about it...btw could not find one thing I needed to buy and I left in an RX 7 (have no clue about that either as I have driven a van for the last 25yrs).

16 posted on 12/26/2007 10:35:13 AM PST by Global2010 ( I yell Go Hunter and my Lab runs to the door. Dang.)
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To: neverdem
Polls are only a monitor to those who impose their opinions upon others as to how effectively their message is getting out. Nothing more...
17 posted on 12/26/2007 10:35:20 AM PST by jcparks (Claire, Its time)
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To: neverdem
Oh, really "Americans are Clearly divided on Gun Control." Then why, oh why, have our liberal/socialists in the dimocRAT party totally shut the door on any discussion of individual gun ownership, Al Gore, Jr. lose his own state of TN during the 2000 election, just to mention a few?

dimocRATS also have pollsters and they know how to read the results, thus they have dropped their "gun control" mantra in all but the most liberal cities/states. If the 'RATS thought they'd win on that issue, then they would surely run on it.

Just like raising taxes, and other socialist agenda items, they are pretty much silent on those issues UNTIL they get elected.

18 posted on 12/26/2007 10:35:42 AM PST by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: neverdem

“We have no clear mental health data on Applicant Y, therefore we must deny his/her request for a gun permit.”

It will go there, and it will go much farther.

RIGHT to keep and bear arms...


19 posted on 12/26/2007 10:35:42 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain! True Supporters of Our Troops Support the Necessity of their Sacrifice!)
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To: neverdem

I’m not divided about it.

And I don’t give a rats ass what the other half thinks.


20 posted on 12/26/2007 10:36:28 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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