Americans Clearly Divided on Gun Control
However, note this tidbit at the bottom of the original: This telephone survey of 800 Likely Voters
So based on that the headline SHOULD read:
800 Americans Clearly Divided on Gun Control
But this gem is from their original Dec 18th release of the same poll:
There is a strong partisan difference on the issue of gun control. A majority (62%) of Democrats say that the country needs stricter gun control laws.Only 25% of Republicans feel the same way.
Sooooooo, if only 25% (200 of 800) of Republicans 'want' stricter laws (which I think is BS), how many MORE democrats made up the poll to get up to this 42% (336 of 800)????
My conclusion is that this poll is utter Brady Bunch propaganda bullcarp.
oh and BIG surprise that RATS want more GC laws - not.
Maybe not.
(0.25*432) + (0.62 * 368) = 336 = 0.42 * 800
This might represent an over-polling of Republicans over Demoncrats of 432 to 368, an admittedly unlikely occurrence.
If equal numbers of Republicans and Demoncrats were surveyed, then we might expect:
(0.25 * 400) + (0.62 * 400) = 348 = (0.44 * 800)
In either case, it should be obvious that, despite having a majority of Demoncrats, that is 62%, in favor of stricter gun controls, there is no way that such mis-guidedness should result in actually permitting any further gun control to be enacted.
The only reason to expect such further infringements is if the Republicans continue to elect RINOs like Arnold in Kalifornia or Mitt Romney. Guns are only useful for many important applications BECAUSE they are "unusually lethal". I wouldn't be interested in owning one which was somehow rendered "unusually NON-lethal".