Posted on 09/10/2004 1:16:34 PM PDT by tx4guns
AUSTIN – Four out of five Texans think Congress should renew the ban on assault weapons that expires Monday, according to a new Texas Poll.
The law bars sale of 19 kinds of semiautomatic weapons that have features of guns used by the military and it outlaws ammunition clips of more than 10 rounds.
The Texas Poll found that 53 percent of adults surveyed own a gun or live in a household in which someone else does. Sixty-one percent favor the law allowing Texans to carry concealed handguns with a permit.
Six times since 1988, the Texas Poll has asked whether restrictions on gun sales should be increased, decreased or kept the same. In the latest survey, 44 percent favored keeping restrictions unchanged, the first time that sentiment exceeded support for increasing restrictions (42 percent this survey).
Gun control adversaries Jim Dark, executive director of the Texas State Rifle Association, and Dave Smith of Houston, president of Texans for Gun Safety, agreed that satisfaction with current restrictions is rising. Both said there is a broad acceptance of instant background checks of gun buyers.
But they clashed over the assault weapons ban, which President Bush says he would extend, though he hasn't pushed for renewal.
The assault weapon ban is rife with loopholes and applies to just 1.6 percent of guns used in crimes, Mr. Dark said.
But in the five years before the 1994 ban, assault weapons accounted for 4.8 percent of the guns used in crimes, according to a Justice Department study.
E-mail rtgarrett@dallasnews.com
Maybe 80% of the liberals they spoke to in Austin.
SO9
No way it's true. Of course, 80% of the people don't really understand what is banned, if not more, so if you word the question right, you can get any answer you want.
Maybe 80% of the liberals they spoke to in a Starbucks in Austin.
What'd they do, limit the sample to 20 students at UT?
Question: Are you for renewing the assault weapons ban or are you for allowing thousands of school children to be murdered by terrorists?
It's a Dan Rather poll.
These same 80% would vote to change laws to end women's sufferage.
Exactly. Gun control: Hitting what you aim at.
What'd they do, limit the sample to 20 students at UT?
15 professors and 5 students!
BS. Odds are the survey did not describe the weapons correctly....like dems have been doing. Or... as you say...he might have done it at UT campus. Right over near that little court yard area where the hippies beat bongos and protest anything from Business to dogs.
Keep in mind that this article is from the Dallas Morning Fraud..uh..I mean Dallas Morning Snooze..uh News....I meant to say news (cough)
DMN is the same paper that inflated it's circulation numbers recently. The did it so they could have a basis for raising their rates to their advertisers.
They are now in legal troubles up to their ears.
This poll is akin to asking 2nd graders their opinions on the laws of thermodynamics.
Id say by looking at the responses that WAY over 80% FReepers think Robbie Garretts poll is BS.
vorTEX
Yeah... like triggers and scopes.
They could only have found these people in downtown Austin.
This is a state made famous for cowboys riding their horses into the local bar. Maybe they don't allow that any more, I don't know, but it bespeaks of a highly independent streak.
This poll is akin to asking 2nd graders their opinions on the laws of thermodynamics.
By careful wording you could get a large percentage of non-thinking sheeple sign a petition to repeal the unfair thermodynamics law. The MAN SHOW got women to sign a petition to repeal womens suffrage (right to vote).
"Ma'am, do you support keeping machine guns that fire hundreds of bullets at one time out of the hands of criminals and children, or do want your kids to have easy access to these weapons of war which have only one purpose, which is to to kill hundreds of innocent people in schools and day care centers?
There was someone taking a poll outside of Whole Foods the other day.
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