Poll: Do you support a ban on assault weapons?

kshaw · Feb 23, 2018

27% no. Let's turn it around.

snakep · Feb 23, 2018

TYT...look up the YouTube videos of those turds the night Trump was elected. They were utterly dumbfounded. It's great to watch...but, yes, they are leftists...that's about as polite as I can be....s

press1280 · Feb 23, 2018

snakep said:
TYT...look up the YouTube videos of those turds the night Trump was elected. They were utterly dumbfounded. It's great to watch...but, yes, they are leftists...that's about as polite as I can be....s

Oh those videos are a hoot, I highly recommend checking them out

Ranchero50 · Feb 23, 2018

28% no. Had to look at the oldest comments before finding a single yes....

fred55 · Feb 23, 2018

Done. Fred55

Schipperke · Feb 23, 2018

Stuff like this reminds me of the champion of straw polls, Ron Paul..

rascal · Feb 24, 2018

Norton said:
This one is probably a little bit more important because it's in the social media realm rather than some 2nd string newspaper that no one reads.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks/community?disable_polymer=1&app=desktop

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This is not a "poll" of the general public, but a "poll" of how the left views an issue. A "poll" on young Turks channel would be like a poll on MSNBC channel or conversely a poll on the truth about guns channel.

How would a "poll" on young Turks be 'more important? than asking people at a gun ban ralley, or conversely asking guys at the range???

Also Why would you ask right after an event. Survey after survey shows sharp bumps up in support for bans, up to 10 or 20 points more than average right after a shooting, but then say a 12 to 22 point DROP netting a net decrease for the year.

Here is the long term poll that matters, it is VALID scientific sample, and it smooths out the bumps up after a mass shooting occurs.

It is the gun control lobby and their friends in the media that distort reality, invert it from actual facts, by promoting distorted polls immediately after an event. it is definitive fake news to do so. Everyone knows that support for assault ban will be below 50% in averaging of 12 or 24 month periods. just look at the trend.

Do you see that 2012 "rise?" Of the overall trend ABC, NBC, CNN all reported on the "rise" in late december 2012 poll totally out of context not mentioning the overall decline None reported the next year when the trend returned to its downward slope.

Hold fast, delay, and do not let emotions influence important national decisions on the Bill of Rights. "round up and jail all muslims" probably went up 20 points in the weeks/moths after 9/11. You don't decide on passions that ALL the data show will decrease.

rascal · Feb 24, 2018

kshaw said:
27% no. Let's turn it around.

You HELP the gun control lobby by voting in that "poll" in either way by increasing their overall clicks

Norton · Feb 24, 2018

rascal said:
This is not a "poll" of the general public, but a "poll" of how the left views an issue. A "poll" on young Turks channel would be like a poll on MSNBC channel or conversely a poll on the truth about guns channel.

How would a "poll" on young Turks be 'more important? than asking people at a gun ban ralley, or conversely asking guys at the range???

It's a poll that matters right now. The left only lives in the crisis of now and we are allowing them to shape the narrative.

In this mob mentality that we have allowed to infect our public policy discourse, facts are the victims. We saw this with the false hysteria around the Confederate monuments last year and they are doing a full court press again, using a proven process.

Go to where they expect 100% agreement and undermining their narrative is important. It cost nothing to do so other than a couple clicks of a mouse.

Do I think undermining these polls is the most substantive form of activism? Absolutely not; and I think my history of posts on the subject of reacting to polls reflects that.

However, the low information users who rely on FB memes and Re-Tweets are steered by the results of these polls and given that it costs literally nothing on our part to shape the results of these polls, it's at least effective in making sure that "they" don't get to completely own the narrative.

Uncle Duke · Feb 24, 2018

Norton said:
It's a poll that matters right now. The left only lives in the crisis of now and we are allowing them to shape the narrative.

In this mob mentality that we have allowed to infect our public policy discourse, facts are the victims. We saw this with the false hysteria around the Confederate monuments last year and they are doing a full court press again, using a proven process.

Go to where they expect 100% agreement and undermining their narrative is important. It cost nothing to do so other than a couple clicks of a mouse.

Do I think undermining these polls is the most substantive form of activism? Absolutely not; and I think my history of posts on the subject of reacting to polls reflects that.

However, the low information users who rely on FB memes and Re-Tweets are steered by the results of these polls and given that it costs literally nothing on our part to shape the results of these polls, it's at least effective in making sure that "they" don't get to completely own the narrative.

Translated (for dummies like me), it's both fun and worth it to flip 'em the bird.

EL1227 · Feb 24, 2018

Since you need to be logged in AND comment to vote, the chances are that subscribers to The Young Turks are driving results, but WTF ... :shrug:

ThunderStick · Feb 24, 2018

EVERY rifle is an "assault rifle". Including the flintlocks the Colonial Army used to win the revolutionary war!

AR stands for Armalite, not "assault rifle".

So, what is the purpose of this thread? Really.....
:sad20:

rascal · Feb 24, 2018

Norton said:
It's a poll that matters right now.

do you know what young turks is?

Are you suggesting that people go to one of the demonstrations against the second amendment and conduct a vote there?

rascal · Feb 24, 2018

Uncle Duke said:
Translated (for dummies like me), it's both fun and worth it to flip 'em the bird.

The more numbers they get the higher credibility they get.

CodeWarrior1241 · Feb 24, 2018

This has already been said, but still.

Assault rifles are select-fire by definition. In civilian legal ownership it's a non-renewable resource that isn't pertinent in any current discussion.

Assault weapons are a meaningless name that was popularized by politicians and non-experts. It has no specific meaning that can be pinned down, nor do you know it when you see it. The two photos of a mini-14 in wood vs plastic/metal come to mind.

Guns are dangerous when used for evil. So are rental trucks, chainsaws, what have you. Nothing more dangerous about an AR pattern than any other model. Would want to note that many states ban 223 calibers for hunting as not being sufficiently deadly, for what it's worth.

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Vile Shadow · Feb 25, 2018

CodeWarrior1241 said:
This has already been said, but still.

Assault rifles are select-fire by definition. In civilian legal ownership it's a non-renewable resource that isn't pertinent in any current discussion.

Assault weapons are a meaningless name that was popularized by politicians and non-experts. It has no specific meaning that can be pinned down, nor do you know it when you see it. The two photos of a mini-14 in wood vs plastic/metal come to mind.

Libtards cAme up with “assault WEAPON” to maKe sure scary lookin’ shotguns like the SPAS-12 are covered By legislation too.

Adolph Oliver Bush · Mar 2, 2018

Results are in.

cmb · Mar 3, 2018

The ONLY "Ban" I support is one that includes, Firearm Free "SAFE ZONES"!

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