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Gun Control & RKBA

SecularMotion

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3. From the link you provided

Reply to confoosed (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:24 PM

Oct 2012

As always, these general views on stricter gun laws versus stronger gun rights can translate into very different attitudes when pollsters ask about specific proposals.

For example, a CBS News/New York Times poll conducted in January 2011, immediately after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Tucson, Ariz., found that 65 percent of Americans opposed a ban on the sale of all handguns. Yet on the same survey, nearly as many supported a nationwide ban on "assault weapons" (63 percent) and a nationwide ban on "high-capacity magazines" (63 percent).

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CNN Parrots National Rifle Association Falsehoods On Assault Weapons [View all] SecularMotion Oct 2012 OP

Are you sure? confoosed Oct 2012 #1

From the link you provided SecularMotion Oct 2012 #3

Does David Brock of Mediamatters still have an armed bodyguard accompany him? nt Eleanors38 Oct 2012 #6

When you take on gun nuts and the NRA it's wise to have a bodyguard. SecularMotion Oct 2012 #7

Really? I thought it was because he lived in a crime-free city. You make a good point... Eleanors38 Oct 2012 #8

150,000,000 other Americans don't feel threatened SecularMotion Oct 2012 #9

Pheww. I guess I'm in the clear being with the 80,000,000+ who aren't threatened. Thanks... Eleanors38 Oct 2012 #10

I don't really care for the lasers S&W is putting on the bodyguards. ileus Oct 2012 #11

I have been thinking a LC9 gejohnston Oct 2012 #13

I love my LCP...but I would like to step up to a little larger caliber. ileus Oct 2012 #14

I'm one of those "if it isn't Ruger or Walther, it isn't" although gejohnston Oct 2012 #15

I love my Ruger Vaqueros ... holdencaufield Oct 2012 #18

how is that different than MM parroting Brady Campaign falsehoods gejohnston Oct 2012 #2

Have you read David Brock's "The Republican Noise Machine"? SecularMotion Oct 2012 #4

I did gejohnston Oct 2012 #5

When you've lost CNN ... holdencaufield Oct 2012 #12

And.... krispos42 Oct 2012 #16

So the NRA isn't doctrinaire enough for you! Francis Marion Oct 2012 #17

Thanks to the internet, there will never be another "assault weapons ban". Atypical Liberal Oct 2012 #19