Gun Polls resulting from VA Tech shooting
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Looks like enough of us have hit their site to make it 50/50 ;)Fourman wrote:Try:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/
It is at 54% for guns being banned. I think we need to change that. It looks like there has been about 34k+ votes. Looks like the English like to prove they are sheep once again :)
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Not a participation poll, but here is an article from AP about a telephone poll conducted last Tuesday through Thursday regarding gun control with a sampling of 1,000 people: http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a ... 5009990003.
The article opens with, "The nation is profoundly split along gender, racial and other lines over gun violence and what the government should do to control it, despite near-universal sorrow over the Virginia Tech shootings, an AP-Ipsos poll has found."
A PDF file of the actual poll results can be found at http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/client/act ... df&id=3449.
Some interesting info in the response data. For example, 62% of the respondents answered "Very Serious" to the question, "How serious a problem is gun violence today?" Yet to the question, "How often do you worry about becoming a victim of gun violence?" 65% answered "Rarely" or "Never." And 22% responded that they personally knew someone who had been a victim of a crime that involved a handgun in the past three years.
De Nile is not just river in Egypt (see my recent repost of "On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs").
An unhappy statistic is one to the question, "Would you be more or less likely to support a candidate for president who favors stricter gun control laws?" "More Likely," 55%; "Less Likely," 32%. Explaining that somewhat, 50% of the respondents consider themselves to be Democrat, 35% Republican.
The article opens with, "The nation is profoundly split along gender, racial and other lines over gun violence and what the government should do to control it, despite near-universal sorrow over the Virginia Tech shootings, an AP-Ipsos poll has found."
A PDF file of the actual poll results can be found at http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/client/act ... df&id=3449.
Some interesting info in the response data. For example, 62% of the respondents answered "Very Serious" to the question, "How serious a problem is gun violence today?" Yet to the question, "How often do you worry about becoming a victim of gun violence?" 65% answered "Rarely" or "Never." And 22% responded that they personally knew someone who had been a victim of a crime that involved a handgun in the past three years.
De Nile is not just river in Egypt (see my recent repost of "On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs").
An unhappy statistic is one to the question, "Would you be more or less likely to support a candidate for president who favors stricter gun control laws?" "More Likely," 55%; "Less Likely," 32%. Explaining that somewhat, 50% of the respondents consider themselves to be Democrat, 35% Republican.
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dunno if anyone posted this one yet, but here is from MSN
http://men.msn.com/articlepollgc.aspx?c ... 0>1=9311
as of 8:24 pm today the results were as follows:
Which do you support?
More gun control - 30%
More gun rights - 56%
Neither - 13%
151946 responses, not scientifically valid, results updated every minute.
seems to me that most Americans "get it" on the topic of gun control, too bad the politicians arent on the same page as the people they represent...
http://men.msn.com/articlepollgc.aspx?c ... 0>1=9311
as of 8:24 pm today the results were as follows:
Which do you support?
More gun control - 30%
More gun rights - 56%
Neither - 13%
151946 responses, not scientifically valid, results updated every minute.
seems to me that most Americans "get it" on the topic of gun control, too bad the politicians arent on the same page as the people they represent...