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80 percent of Texans want ban on assault weapons renewed <BARF ALERT>
Dallas Morning News ^
| 9/10/2004
| ROBERT T. GARRETT
Posted on 09/10/2004 1:16:34 PM PDT by tx4guns
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OK, This sounds like BS to me. I work amongst a very diverse crowd of people, and it's split about 50/50. 80% is total BS. Those of you who feel like this is BS might want to email Mr. Garrett and have him provide a source of this survey and a description of the demographics of the group questioned. Sounds like he might have gone to the UT campus for his "Texas survey". If it's 4 out of 5 for banning "assault weapons", I'm feeling very lonely and let-down by my fellow citizens right now here in TX.
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posted on
09/10/2004 1:16:35 PM PDT
by
tx4guns
To: tx4guns
BRAVO SIERRA.
Maybe 80% of the liberals they spoke to in Austin.
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posted on
09/10/2004 1:17:55 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: tx4guns
If it is true, it is because they think, correctly, if not in law, that assault weapons are machineguns.
SO9
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posted on
09/10/2004 1:18:53 PM PDT
by
Servant of the 9
(We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
To: tx4guns
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.
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posted on
09/10/2004 1:19:21 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Jeff Head
Maybe 80% of the liberals they spoke to in a Starbucks in Austin.
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posted on
09/10/2004 1:19:22 PM PDT
by
abc1
To: tx4guns
What'd they do, limit the sample to 20 students at UT?
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posted on
09/10/2004 1:19:32 PM PDT
by
Professional Engineer
(Hey JohnJohn, I take Responsible Charge of my work, are you able to say the same of yours?)
To: tx4guns
Question: Are you for renewing the assault weapons ban or are you for allowing thousands of school children to be murdered by terrorists?
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posted on
09/10/2004 1:20:07 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(God is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: tx4guns
To: tx4guns
These same 80% would vote to change laws to end women's sufferage.
To: Jeff Head
Exactly. Gun control: Hitting what you aim at.
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posted on
09/10/2004 1:20:41 PM PDT
by
TXBSAFH
(Bandwidth is too good for these (L)users.)
To: Professional Engineer
What'd they do, limit the sample to 20 students at UT?
15 professors and 5 students!
To: tx4guns
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.
To: tx4guns
80% of the sheeple don't even know what the assault weapons ban is.
This poll is akin to asking 2nd graders their opinions on the laws of thermodynamics.
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posted on
09/10/2004 1:22:46 PM PDT
by
Mulder
(All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.-- Samuel Adams)
To: tx4guns
Id say by looking at the responses that WAY over 80% FReepers think Robbie Garretts poll is BS.
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posted on
09/10/2004 1:23:37 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rearview mirror.)
To: tx4guns
Oh yeah, that's total BS.
vorTEX
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posted on
09/10/2004 1:23:52 PM PDT
by
Vortex
To: tx4guns
The law bars sale of 19 kinds of semiautomatic weapons that have features of guns used by the military Yeah... like triggers and scopes.
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posted on
09/10/2004 1:24:36 PM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
(http://www.drunkenbuffoonery.com/mboards/)
To: tx4guns
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.
To: Mulder
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).
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posted on
09/10/2004 1:27:01 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rearview mirror.)
To: tx4guns
Jeff is right. If they took the poll just in Austin they could easily come up with 80% if they ask the usual leading questions.
"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?
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posted on
09/10/2004 1:27:01 PM PDT
by
epow
To: Jeff Head
Maybe 80% of the liberals they spoke to in Austin. There was someone taking a poll outside of Whole Foods the other day.
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