“Do you support increased gun control?” map

[carguychris]

I am betting that the results for Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine were due to calls only being made to Burlington, Manchester, and Portland...

I don't know where and/or how the data was collected but I guarantee it is wrong for the state of Maine.

See my previous post. The maps aren't based on surveys of random people. They're based on quizzes submitted by website users and filtered through some sort of mysterious and obscure anti-duplication algorithm. Thus, the results are totally unscientific and worthless as a measure of general public opinion.

 

[Salmoneye]

See my previous post. The maps aren't based on surveys of random people.

When I posted I had not read the entire thread...

I left what I wrote after I read your your post as a reminder to myself to read the thread before posting...

 

[barnbwt]

I always love the color maps that show our nation rotting at the edges (if we'd chosen a circular geography, we wouldn't have half the problems we do ).

Thank you, whoever made this, for not doing it in a green/red gradient for us colorblind folks (although, the blue/red on the gradient is reversed, for reasons that should be obvious )

TCB

 

[Taco-XL]

West Virginia

I see my state Is completely and proudly in the blue. GO WV!!

 

[Andy Blozinski]

Jimmy Kimmel made a joke of how polling questions can skew results. They polled people about the insurance coverage issue. They got very different results depending on if they called it Obamacare or if they called it the Affordable Care Act.

I support more gun control in some respects and less in others. I will not support an increase in gun control unless I see it written clearly and firmly into law that said control is guaranteed to stop at a certain point. Right now, it's pretty clear that it's not gun control vs gun ownership rights, but gun banning vs gun ownership. I have no faith the so called do-gooders have any intentions of stopping at a reasonable point.

 

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I have no faith the so called do-gooders have any intentions of stopping at a reasonable point.

You should have absolute faith that they will stop at a reasonable point! The trouble is that their idea of a "reasonable" point is no guns for the peons (us).

They seldom have a problem with guns in the hands of the people who work for them. Although there have been gun control laws passed which do not exempt the military, police and private armed security, the majority of gun control laws DO exclude these people.

Somehow, I just never saw the validity in thinking guns in the hands of people who wear a uniform /badge, or who's paycheck you sign, to protect your elitist butt, are good, and guns in my hands to protect my "great unwashed" butt are a bad thing.

Uncle Sam put a machine gun in my hands when I was still a teenager. They told me it was a good thing. Now, here I am, decades later, and not only can I NOT have that exact same machinegun, I cannot even have something that looks like it, but isn't, depending on what state I live in. AND good ol Uncle Sam is STILL putting machineguns into the hands of teenagers today. Without a background check every time the weapon is issued. Without CLEO sign off, without the $200 transfer tax and tax stamp, and without months of wait while the paperwork is processed.

If you wanted to stop the US military from being a functional force, all you would have to do is to require them to follow ALL of the gun control laws that non military people have to follow.