“The answer was 41%. I watched the show and the audience applauded. If, as Drew notes from time to time, that the Poll was conducted of New Yorkers, man, am I impressed! The significance is that on the question of ‘automatic weapons’, the finding is not 1 or 2 percent or even 10 or 20 percent, but a thriving 41%.”
WOW! 41 percent of New Yorkers. Too bad they don’t poll Southerners and MidWesterners.
The question didn’t ask “automatic weapons” it asked how many thought Americans should be allowed to have “machine guns”.
The term “machine gun” actually means the same thing, but in peoples minds it means a military type of fully automatic weapon.
Everybody already can own “automatic weapons”, or at least are supposed to be able to.
Probably better numbers than polling FreeRepublic....sadly to say.
So, 41% of New Yorkers believe that Americans should be allowed to own automatic weapons but they can't get a majority of New Yorkers to support the ownership of handguns?
Gee, maybe they meant that Americans should be allowed to own automatic weapons -- outside of New York.