View Full Version : PBS Vote...What should Congress do about gun control?
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/poll-2/congressional-action-on-guns/16826/
Be heard!
I think the pro-guns folks are doing a much better job of passing this poll around!
Done. 96% have voted to leave laws unchanged. :cool:
longrange1947
04-30-2013, 21:20
Knowing PBS and how they do stuff, they will ignore the votes to do nothing and claim that banning ARs and large mags beat out just background checks. I can see the big push now. :munchin
miclo18d
05-01-2013, 04:16
This poll will have a caveat when they publish it that says:
Not a scientific poll.
Don't ask the question if you might get an answer you won't like.
Voted and shared to the world..
I voted, but PBS will never let these results see the light of day.
Javadrinker
05-01-2013, 16:34
I voted
What should Congress do about gun control?
Leave federal gun laws as they are (95%, 30,250 Votes)
Expand background checks, ban assault weapons and limit the capacity of magazines (3%, 844 Votes)
Only expand background checks (2%, 749 Votes
nousdefions
05-01-2013, 17:22
Expand background checks, ban assault weapons and limit the capacity of magazines (3%, 844 Votes)
Watch this PSA commercial that explains why standard capacity magazines are necessary.
PSA Video (http://youtu.be/7F1nPSNnaBo)
I love with the libs don't get the cake walk they were looking for!
Bracholi
05-01-2013, 23:14
http://www.nydailynews.com/armed-revolution-44-republicans-article-1.1332621
Think of it as an alternate definition for the term “gun control.”
Nearly half of all Republicans surveyed said they believed that “an armed revolution in order to protect liberties might be necessary in the next few years,” a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University found.
While 44% of registered Republican voters indicated that they believed armed rebellion would soon be a reality in the U.S., just 18% of Democrats agreed. As for Independent voters, 27% indicated that guns would soon be used to settle the country’s political problems.
The partisan gap on the question of whether armed revolution will soon play a role in America’s political history mirrors the differences in opinion on gun control. While 50% of those surveyed said that new gun control legislation was necessary to protect the public, just 24% of Republicans said new laws were needed. A whopping 73% of Democrats favored new legislation, the survey found.
“If there was a bipartisan moment after Sandy Hook to pass gun control legislation, it’s past,” Dan Cassino, a professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson, said in a press release. “Partisan views have strongly re-asserted themselves, and there’s no sign that they’ll get any weaker.”
Conspiracy theorists would also seem to have partisan leanings, according to the poll. Asked whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement: “Some people are hiding the truth about the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in order to advance a political agenda,” 45% of Republicans said they either agreed or weren’t sure, compared with 29% of Democrats.
“The differences in views of gun legislation are really a function of differences in what people believe guns are for,” Cassino said. “If you truly believe an armed revolution is possible in the near future, you need weapons and you’re going to be wary about government efforts to take them away.”
Thought this tied into this discussion better than creating a new topic.
Javadrinker
05-04-2013, 16:57
Watch this PSA commercial that explains why standard capacity magazines are necessary.
PSA Video (http://youtu.be/7F1nPSNnaBo)
Thank you, I've seen that video. He does good work. I was only posting the results of the poll after I voted. I am one of the 95% that said to leave Federal gun laws as they are.
medic&commo
05-06-2013, 08:11
I voted, but PBS will never let these results see the light of day.
Done. Hope this isn't the outcome.
m&c
If it stays in this range, they'll claim that their poll was flooded by gun rights people to rig it or something:rolleyes::cool:
Hmmm....they'll probably say something like this:
300,000,000 U.S. population
270,000,000 (90%) supposedly believe in expanded laws/background checks
30,000,000 (10%) believe gun laws are fine as they are
44,743 people voted on PBS poll
41,982 (94%) voted to leave Fed gun laws as they are
They will say that the number who voted in the PBS poll is irrelevant, because there are still more than 270,000,000 who don't agree with the 41,982. This is the kind of math I see all the time with this administration and its groupies.
uspsmark
05-08-2013, 07:37
Figures lie and liars figure...
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics...
90% of all statistics are made up on the spot...
rubberneck
05-08-2013, 08:07
"There are lies, damn lies and statistics."- Mark Twain
As a young undergrad I learned how easy it was to manipulate "scientific" polls to reach an outcome favorable to the person who is conducting the survey. Every four years I'm reminded of that fact when contacted for polling on the presidential race. Instead of opting out of the survey take it and listen to how the questions are phrased. You'd be surprised at how slanted some of them are.
While this is a non scientific poll there are plenty of scientific polls on the subject. It's easy to find the results of those polls but all but impossible to find the script read by the person conducting the poll.
"There are lies, damn lies and statistics."- Mark Twain
As a young undergrad I learned how easy it was to manipulate "scientific" polls to reach an outcome favorable to the person who is conducting the survey.
When you have a media invested in an administration (status quo with dems), you manipulate everything, especially gun issues.
The LA Times has been in the forefront, and the fact that they're running this story is a flag:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-gun-crimes-pew-report-20130507,0,3022693.story
Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show.
Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, according to a newly released survey by the Pew Research Center.
In less than two decades, the gun murder rate has been nearly cut in half. Other gun crimes fell even more sharply, paralleling a broader drop in violent crimes committed with or without guns. Violent crime dropped steeply during the 1990s and has fallen less dramatically since the turn of the millennium.
The number of gun killings dropped 39% between 1993 and 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported in a separate report released Tuesday. Gun crimes that weren’t fatal fell by 69%. However, guns still remain the most common murder weapon in the United States, the report noted. Between 1993 and 2011, more than two out of three murders in the U.S. were carried out with guns, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found.
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nousdefions
05-08-2013, 09:29
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The number of gun killings dropped 39% between 1993 and 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported in a separate report released Tuesday. Gun crimes that weren’t fatal fell by 69%. However, [B]guns still remain the most common murder weapon in the United States, the report noted. Between 1993 and 2011, more than two out of three murders in the U.S. were carried out with guns, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found.
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I wonder how many of those were "gang-related".....
More MSM distortion of the truth