Bad news for the AWB supporters

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

What defines "common use" though - what the police use, or what are most often used in crime?

[justashooter 430]

The Vast Majority of Americans Want the Assault Weapons Ban Renewed

Asked if they favored or opposed renewing the assault weapons ban, most Americans said they “strongly favored” or “somewhat favored” renewing the ban, as shown in the attached Figure. Sixty-seven percent said they favored renewing the ban, including 57 percent who strongly favor its renewal. A solid majority of gun owners, 56 percent, support renewing the ban, with 45 percent strongly supporting renewal.

http://www.consumerfed.org/pdfs/ASSAULTWEAPONSURVEY2004.pdf

is your puter stuck in a time warp, or something? and quoting a survey published by a lobbying group with clearly stated positions? google it, my friend...

Consumer advocacy organization lobbying on issues such as health, insurance, financial services, agriculture, food safety, housing, firearms, product safety ...

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[one...two...tree 2,762]

Majority of U.S. Adults Favors Continuing Ban on Sales of Assault Rifles, According to Latest Harris Poll

On September 14 a 10-year ban prohibiting the sales of assault rifles and high-capacity ammunition expired. These rifles and ammunition may now be purchased. However, a substantial majority (71%) of all U.S. adults favors continuation of this ban. Support for the ban is equally favored across all groups including Republicans, Democrats and Independents.

These are the results of The Harris Poll of 1,018 U.S. adults surveyed by telephone by Harris Interactive® between September 9 and 13, 2004.

The main findings of the survey are:

• A large majority (71%) favors continuation of the ban prohibiting the sales of assault rifles and high-capacity ammunition while 26 percent opposes continuing the ban.
• Overall, a 60 percent majority favors stricter gun control, with 32 percent wanting less strict control and 4 percent volunteering no change. This majority has declined since 2000 when 63 percent favored stricter gun control and in 1998 when a larger 69 percent favored it.

Republicans and Democrats hold very different views on the overall issue of making gun control stricter. Just under half (48%) of Republicans favor making gun control stricter and 41 percent favor making it less strict. This compares to Democrats who by 72 to 21 percent favor stricter gun control. U.S. adults who classify themselves as Independent feel that gun control should be made stricter (63% to 32%). Interestingly, this partisanship does not extend to the assault rifle ban. Over seven in 10 Republicans, Democrats and Independents all support the ban (ranging from 72-74%).

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_po...dex.asp?PID=498

Edited March 26, 2009 by Mister Fancypants

[justashooter 430]

What defines "common use" though - what the police use, or what are most often used in crime?

read the decision, englishman. in America common use is what the people have.

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-content/up...8/06/07-290.pdf

you don't like it, you can always leave.

[natty bumppo 297]

The Vast Majority of Americans Want the Assault Weapons Ban Renewed

Asked if they favored or opposed renewing the assault weapons ban, most Americans said they “strongly favored” or “somewhat favored” renewing the ban, as shown in the attached Figure. Sixty-seven percent said they favored renewing the ban, including 57 percent who strongly favor its renewal. A solid majority of gun owners, 56 percent, support renewing the ban, with 45 percent strongly supporting renewal.

http://www.consumerfed.org/pdfs/ASSAULTWEAPONSURVEY2004.pdf

is your puter stuck in a time warp, or something? and quoting a survey published by a lobbying group with clearly stated positions? google it, my friend...

time warp or is he using dial up and this is the speed of data transfer.

yet another time warped article has been posted ....

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

What defines "common use" though - what the police use, or what are most often used in crime?

read the decision, englishman. in America common use is what the people have.

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-content/up...8/06/07-290.pdf

you don't like it, you can always leave.

You are defensive aren't you?

I must say I am interested in what my nationality has to do with anything, though I doubt I'll get a satisfactory answer from you, American.

Like it or leave. Interesting if juvenile reasoning.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

The Vast Majority of Americans Want the Assault Weapons Ban Renewed

Asked if they favored or opposed renewing the assault weapons ban, most Americans said they "strongly favored" or "somewhat favored" renewing the ban, as shown in the attached Figure. Sixty-seven percent said they favored renewing the ban, including 57 percent who strongly favor its renewal. A solid majority of gun owners, 56 percent, support renewing the ban, with 45 percent strongly supporting renewal.

http://www.consumerfed.org/pdfs/ASSAULTWEAPONSURVEY2004.pdf

is your puter stuck in a time warp, or something? and quoting a survey published by a lobbying group with clearly stated positions? google it, my friend...

The issue of bringing back the assault weapons ban is fairly recent, but those polls done in 2004 are telling and shouldn't be dismissed. The ban had wide support among Americans.

[justashooter 430]

Majority of U.S. Adults Favors Continuing Ban on Sales of Assault Rifles, According to Latest Harris Poll

a small poll done by phone in 2004? what demographic (urban, rural, southern, northern, western, eastern)? we all know phone polls are no good anymore. they haven't been reliable since the invention of the cell phone. time of day that calls are made and nature of the questions asked in the poll are also strongly perjorative.

not gonna do the research, but here's an interesting one:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m156...v25/ai_14536863

"Do it for our kids." This is the new slogan of the gun-control movement. (See "Gun Play," July.) And according to a poll released last summer, most Americans find it a persuasive argument for a national ban on handguns.

A Lou Harris telephone survey of 1,250 adults commissioned by the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation found that 52 percent of Americans favor a ban on handgun possession, except with special court approval. The New York Times and Nightline trumpeted the poll as marking a significant turnaround in public opinion.

But reporters failed to note that the survey artificially inflated support for a handgun ban with a series of skewed queries and tendentious assertions about how guns threaten children. Before respondents were asked about gun control, they heard 19 questions that mentioned children; of these, 12 mentioned or alluded to violence, and 10 explicitly connected guns to the harming of children, including suicide, homicide, and accidents.

[justashooter 430]

You are defensive aren't you?

I must say I am interested in what my nationality has to do with anything, though I doubt I'll get a satisfactory answer from you, American.

Like it or leave. Interesting if juvenile reasoning.

just giving you a choice, friend. your prejudices are based on your country of acculturation. if you wanna be an American, you'll have to leave your english reasoning behind. if you just wanna stay a visitor, well, that's fine by me, too, but in that case, keep your thoughts about America to yourself.

The issue of bringing back the assault weapons ban is fairly recent, but those polls done in 2004 are telling and shouldn't be dismissed. The ban had wide support among carefully selected Americans chosen to provide a false impression that could be used for political manipulation.

fixed it for ya.

[Peikko 1,575]

You are defensive aren't you?

I must say I am interested in what my nationality has to do with anything, though I doubt I'll get a satisfactory answer from you, American.

Like it or leave. Interesting if juvenile reasoning.

just giving you a choice, friend. your prejudices are based on your country of acculturation. if you wanna be an American, you'll have to leave your english reasoning behind. if you just wanna stay a visitor, well, that's fine by me, too, but in that case, keep your thoughts about America to yourself.

The issue of bringing back the assault weapons ban is fairly recent, but those polls done in 2004 are telling and shouldn't be dismissed. The ban had wide support among carefully selected Americans chosen to provide a false impression that could be used for political manipulation.

fixed it for ya.

Acculturation? FYI, I don't want to be an American, but I do want to be a citizen. I will keep my 'English' reasoning (whataver that's supposed to mean, as though reasoning is cultural, what a sketch you are) and even while being an English person, my thoughts about America are as valid as anyones.

Still, for amusement, you are one of my faves, keep it up!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You are defensive aren't you?

I must say I am interested in what my nationality has to do with anything, though I doubt I'll get a satisfactory answer from you, American.

Like it or leave. Interesting if juvenile reasoning.

just giving you a choice, friend. your prejudices are based on your country of acculturation. if you wanna be an American, you'll have to leave your english reasoning behind. if you just wanna stay a visitor, well, that's fine by me, too, but in that case, keep your thoughts about America to yourself.

*You* are giving *me* a choice? How generous of you...

When did you become the arbiter of what a person can think and say in a free society?

I'm not obligated to do anything you say. That must really burn you up inside...

And no - I won't keep my thoughts about America to myself. You won't, so why should I?

Edited March 26, 2009 by Private Pike

[justashooter 430]

You are defensive aren't you?

I must say I am interested in what my nationality has to do with anything, though I doubt I'll get a satisfactory answer from you, American.

Like it or leave. Interesting if juvenile reasoning.

just giving you a choice, friend. your prejudices are based on your country of acculturation. if you wanna be an American, you'll have to leave your english reasoning behind. if you just wanna stay a visitor, well, that's fine by me, too, but in that case, keep your thoughts about America to yourself.

*You* are giving *me* a choice? How generous of you...

When did you become the arbiter of what a person can think and say in a free society?

I'm not obligated to do anything you say. That must really burn you up inside...

And no - I won't keep my thoughts about America to myself. You won't, so why should I?

Despite being in his teens and verging on manhood, Pike is very naive and often acts childishly, possessing quite a limited grasp of adult issues. He is frequently found with confectionery and sweets, is greatly upset in one episode to leave a cinema early because he had "missed the Donald Duck" and can be quite insolent and petulant to his superiors and elders in the platoon.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

And you're talking to yourself in the 3rd person...

But interestingly enough that last bit really says a lot about how you see yourself doesn't it. You honestly think that you are better and *superior* to other people. I guess that explains the cartoonish views you seem to have on race issues.

[justashooter 430]

You are defensive aren't you?

I must say I am interested in what my nationality has to do with anything, though I doubt I'll get a satisfactory answer from you, American.

Like it or leave. Interesting if juvenile reasoning.

just giving you a choice, friend. your prejudices are based on your country of acculturation. if you wanna be an American, you'll have to leave your english reasoning behind. if you just wanna stay a visitor, well, that's fine by me, too, but in that case, keep your thoughts about America to yourself.

The issue of bringing back the assault weapons ban is fairly recent, but those polls done in 2004 are telling and shouldn't be dismissed. The ban had wide support among carefully selected Americans chosen to provide a false impression that could be used for political manipulation.

fixed it for ya.

Acculturation? FYI, I don't want to be an American, but I do want to be a citizen. I will keep my 'English' reasoning (whataver that's supposed to mean, as though reasoning is cultural, what a sketch you are) and even while being an English person, my thoughts about America are as valid as anyones.

Still, for amusement, you are one of my faves, keep it up!

so fell the roman empire, in the days in which the right of citizenship was sold for a few coins, and even the weak minded were admitted to the senate...

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Shooter, you started a thread implying that there is little support for an assault weapons ban. I've given you evidence that at least back when the issue was up before Congress the last time, there was wide support. So if you're going to play the game of just who supports what here, accept that I can play it too.