PBS Vote...What should Congress do about gun control?

SF18C · 04-30-2013, 20:34

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know...on-guns/16826/

Be heard!

I think the pro-guns folks are doing a much better job of passing this poll around!

Dusty · 04-30-2013, 20:37

Done. 96% have voted to leave laws unchanged.

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.

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.

JJ_BPK · 05-01-2013, 05:21

Voted and shared to the world..

Beef · 05-01-2013, 15:34

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

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Originally Posted by Javadrinker

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

SF18C · 05-01-2013, 18:16

I love with the libs don't get the cake walk they were looking for!

Bracholi · 05-01-2013, 23:14

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http://www.nydailynews.com/armed-rev...icle-1.1332621

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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

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Originally Posted by nousdefions

Watch this PSA commercial that explains why standard capacity magazines are necessary.

PSA Video

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

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Originally Posted by Beef

I voted, but PBS will never let these results see the light of day.

Done. Hope this isn't the outcome.

m&c

orion5 · 05-07-2013, 20:18

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Originally Posted by Broadsword2004

If it stays in this range, they'll claim that their poll was flooded by gun rights people to rig it or something

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.