80-90% in favor of expanded background checks

Every effort to regulate firearms, in the history of this Nation, has done nothing more than to render something already illegal, more illegal. No criminal or terrorist worth the name pays any of it the slightest bit of attention. What they cannot buy, they will steal- from police cars, shipping trucks, sporting goods stores and private residences.

So the bliss-ninnies cry "If there were no more guns there would be none to steal!!"If an evildoer cannot buy or steal a gun, there are plenty of other ways to wreak havoc. Surely you cannot have missed the last month's national news.

So stop BS'ing us. I've watched the changes in this nation since the early 60's, when I was old enough to pay attention. I've been a cop for almost 30 years of it. Regulation has increased exponentially and so has crime.

The best you can do for the public is to stop trying to infringe on their right to an efficient means to defend themselves, right NOW, wherever they may be preyed upon by the wolves of the world. They have existed since the beginning of time and they recognize NO law except the law of the jungle.
 
Well and that was kind of the point that somehow the media was pushing this fabricated 90% agree with expanded background checks. No other media or politician or gun group was really questioning the claim all that much. There also seemed to be a concerted effort to push this message out with the opening of the NRA meeting.
As someone who has done research and polling I questioned the result from a scientific position and got attacked on my local newspaper message board by people using talking points about NRA lies and what not.
I don't think you could get 90% if people to agree on Ice Cream.
That being said it looks like this was a somewhat well organized grass roots campaign in states where Democrats are up for election. The articles I found coupled these survey results with polling results on politicians. In the case of Louisiana it ended up being shot piece on Mary Landrieu's opponent.
 
We should not forget the context in which these questions were asked. People were told for several weeks that anyone could buy a firearm on the internet and have it shipped to your house without a background check. We know that to be false, but it sounds alarming if you don't know better. It was for months strongly implied that no transactions that take place at gun shows are subject to BCs; again false, but equally alarming if you don't know the facts. The poll asked for people's response to the lies they were told, not for their opinion of actual current law.

Also, if they asked me if I favor enhanced background checks, I might answer yes because I personally think it is foolish to check for mental illness against a database that contains so little mental health data, and because I think it foolhardy for the feds to have a de facto policy of not prosecuting straw purchases. Favoring those changes to the BC system has nothing to do with being in favor of the recently defeated legislation, though, even though it is portrayed as such.
 
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