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Old 12-27-2012, 12:04   #241
Badger52
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Originally Posted by koz View Post
But when they ask how to make these more restrictive gun laws, banning anything doesn't seem to make sense to the majority.
X-ring. Going back to the historical data provided, not the snippet that was run & grabbed on by the morning papers, even tying it to dates of things like Columbine & VA Tech shows the survey subjects didn't regard large amounts of legislation as being a tool to legislate behavior. With 18sec till commercial break most information consumers won't get it & don't dig for it. Could be a more aged (and less secure) demographic (over a decade or more), lots of factors impact surveys.

I wonder how many, if asked, would know that Columbine happened 5 years after the start of the first AWB, smack in the middle of a period of law that was marketed to them as making them safer, and that the GFSZA had been in place for 9 years.
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