Posted on 01/14/2013 4:15:37 PM PST by Red Steel
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Gallup, a far more reputable organization, did a poll recently that found 51% of Americans oppose a new "assault weapons ban".
http://www.gallup.com/poll/159569/americans-stricter-gun-laws-oppose-bans.aspx
Money quote:
"Americans' views on the sale of assault rifles are unchanged. The slight majority, 51%, remain opposed to making it illegal to manufacture, sell, or possess semi-automatic guns known as assault rifles." BTW, those in favor of a ban number 44%, so the margin isn't so "slight" really.
“I realize nobody actually bothered to read far enough to learn this, but if it is a rigged, propaganda poll, why do most of the respondents support the NRA armed guards in school plan?”
It’s a red herring for ersatz credibility.
What truly matters is how the question was phrased:
“Sir, if you were at a public school and it was under attack by mobs of zombies would you be for or against having armed guards at the school?”
If the DUmb Dems are sooooo sure that this poll is soooo accurate, then they should be able to get a plethora of Brady Bum bills to fly through Congress?
Did the idiots New York pollsters define ‘Assault Weapons’ to the low information voter? You can bet the low info person who was polled conjured up everything from bazookas to grenade launchers.
wanna bet?
Hitler and Obama both share the same vision..to control a nation one must disarm it’s citizens
All you have to do is look at who paid for this poll and who were the pollsters to figure out that it was highly skewed to the liberal viewpoint.
Are we really going to claim the polls are wrong after this past election?
These were two polls actually (ABC/Wapo and Pew), and they both generally showed the same results.
America’s demographics are changing rapidly and the movement politically is to the left. Virtually all these new Hispanics are liberal voters and have no knowledge of why the 2nd Amendment is so important. We still lose sizable numbers of white people as the country becomes more urban and less rural. The younger generations seem wedded to government and don’t mind growing it to the moon. Heck we even lose Asians (a demographic we used to win not long ago) worse than we do even Hispanics. The country is moving in the wrong direction and that is reflected in public opinion. So why should we not believe these polls again?
This country really is in serious trouble. The right needs to unify pretty quick and find a way to stay on message and go on the offensive. As is we are just getting pummeled right now. I think another good place to start is for the producers that understand what is going on to start buying up as much media as possible. Wasting money on Karl Rove’s super PAC got us nowhere in 2012. This nation is on a downward spiral and I don’t know how much time we have left before it’s simply too late.
What I can’t figure out is why the big push on gun control when you’re chances of being killed by a random gunman are about the same as being struck by lightning. BUT your chances of being killed by a drunk driver are much, much higher. One person is killed every half hour due to drunk driving. Each year approximately 16,000 are killed in alcohol related crashes. Why not push towards controlling the bigger problem that is killing many, many more people? I don’t get it.
The Leftwing faction in media is the Country’s greatest threat.
A poll doesn’t trump our rights.
I’ll make a prediction. Feinstein is not going to get squat through Congress. This poll here doesn’t reflect reality.
However, Gallup’s poll is likely much more reflective which was posted above:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2978129/posts?page=22#22
How many would support a ban on “assault judges” (i.e., ‘Rose Bird type’ judges who are soft on violent criminals)?
Well the Dems are PERFECTLY FREE to follow this poll.
Us Conservatives would JUST LOVE to see them ELIMINATED as a legitimate political party - so all I can say to them is: HAVE AT IT!!!
Let’s see some REAL GUN CONTROL, just so we can throw you out with the garbage next week.
(but the Dems know all this...their REAL TARGET are weak-knee’d Republicans that aren’t able to understand it)
It’s a liberal wet dream. It’s not what guns can do to stop their wildest agendas but guns also represents what they despise.
Bonehead must go!
I would have been more impressed by this WAPO/abc “poll” if 50% of the bonehead respondents could have given them the name of the murderer at the school. I doubt more than 5% could have answered that question.
You're right, nothing is likely to pass Congress. Feinstein's bill won't even get out of the Senate.
My point was only that it is unwise to assume polling we don't like isn't accurate. Most of what passes for the American public are now getting their queues from an increasingly leftist education, media and entertainment establishment that are entirely shot through with leftism. On top of that the demographic changes do not bode well based on current voting patterns. We are likely to be shocked at the kind of stuff the new American public will support. A majority of them have no regard whatsoever for the Constitution, they are more likely to know what the Kardashians are doing than what the 2nd amendment says.
Both polls were probably taken within the NYC limits. :)
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