PBS POLL: how would you vote on this?

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Before this gets closed as a driveby ill add its odd that the poll favors no more gun control by a large amount....
Yet America keeps passing more laws.
 
Why would anyone bother with an on-line poll?

There is no information collected about the respondents.

They are all self-selected.

The poll allows multiple votes (I voted, to see).

The originators of the poll are quite likely to have a 'preferred' outcome. Some of those are dishonestly modified to dismiss un-desired votes. Others are merely 'disappeared' when the result does not match hopes. And when neither of those two things happen, the originators hand-wave the results away as 'non-scientific' - as well anyone should.

However, when the results meet expectations, they are trumpeted and held to be Gospel, 'non-scientific' objections being dismissed.

On commercial sites, such polls are 'click-bait' - they use page views and sell your 'eyeballs' to advertisers. Participating in polls on those sites is making a small contribution against interest.
 
I clicked on the poll and it would not even let me select my viewing area as I am in Washington but not Seattle or Spokane. This tells me that this is a contrived POS poll for a specific predeterimined outcome.
 
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