Silver Dollar
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All I know is nobody polled me or anyone else in my neighborhood. 90% my foot.
Correction, here's the poll:New York State (NY) Poll - April 17, 2013 - New York Republicans Shift Bac | Quinnipiac University Connecticut
This is the poll. Polls are picking up opinions. 24 hour a day coverage of dead children for two weeks with constant follow up coverage may have influenced the results.
I snoted..... and your absolutely right. 90% of the sample they chose in an area they had people to answer the question their way? Maybe.This "90% of Americans want this" really gets me.
I don't believe you could get 90% of the US to agree McDonalds sells hamburgers.........
There are "lies, damned lies, and statistics" popularised by Mark Twain (among others).
Perhaps 90% of the people queried do support more gun legislation. What is missing is any documentation as to who is that 90% . Could have been 90 people at a 100 person anti-gun rally. As long as the media supports this kind of unsubstantiated garbage the general public will eat it up. What really bothers me is that the so called politicians 'on our side' aren't calling it what it is...a massive lie. We lost the last election by being too polite and too nice and too PC. We need some people in DC to either speak up or get out of the way.
This is one of the reasons the Bill of Rights was enacted. There was argument that no Bill of Rights was needed, as everything in it was such an obvious right of free people. One argument for the Bill of Rights was that it preserved the rights of free people from the whims of the opinions of the majority.
Polling was done by several organizations. They all came in close to the same. Here is an example--
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2013/01/18/fox-news-poll-gun-rights-and-gun-control/
34.-43. Do you favor or oppose each of the following proposals to reduce gun violence?
Requiring criminal background checks on all
gun buyers, including those buying at gun
shows and private sales.
-------91% Favor
I don't think the question was too tricky for most gun owners to comprehend.