Reply #27: If we actualy define terms, I am prety sure it will change

[DavidMS]

I would love to do some polling.

Keeping it anonymous, I would love to ask some 10,000 Americans the following questions.

Question:

1. Demographic information questions go here? (party affiliation, age, sex, ethnic origins, religion, region/city of birth, education, education of parents, etc)
2. What is your primary source of news (TV, Radio, Internet, Newspaper, etc). Which newspapers/websites/tv/etc.
3. Do you own a firearm? If yes, what for? Have you ever owned a firearm? Did your parents own firearms? etc.
4. Do you know of anyone who was a victim of violent crime? What happened?
5. In your own words define, "assault gun," "assault rifle," assault weapon."
6. What weapons are commonly used by criminals (handguns, long arms, "assault weapons")
7. How many Americans do you think die from firearm related causes (suicide, accident, murder) per year? How many sucides?
8. Can you briefly sumerize federal/state firearms law for us? Who can own what?
9. Should these laws be tightened / loosened?
10. Given that, state federal and relevant state law here... should firearms laws be changed? And how?

Record, and run through quantitative analysis software like Atlas T.I.

I will hypothesize that there is a direct correlation between general knowledge of firearms law, firearms related statistics, and exposure to them being the primary determinants of a persons position on gun control.

Get it into a reputable peer reviewed journal and see how things change.