nyrifleman
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I'm a New Yorker, though I live upstate where gun laws are relatively sane.
I was recently thinking: Yes, NY is a strongly Democratic state, with an anti-gun culture... but how many peole here are actually pro and how many are actually anti? So I did what I always do in such situations and looked up polls...
THERE AREN'T ANY!
Nobody, whether pro-gun, anti-gun, from New York or from outside New York, has ever tried to ask the question: How do people in NY feel about guns?
I think this is a problem. Politicians care about votes, but they have no idea how many votes a given position on guns will give them. And maybe it's a blessing, because there are so many anti-gunners in New York that we'd always be a losing minority. But my gut feeling is that there are actually more gun people here than one might think.
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I was recently thinking: Yes, NY is a strongly Democratic state, with an anti-gun culture... but how many peole here are actually pro and how many are actually anti? So I did what I always do in such situations and looked up polls...
THERE AREN'T ANY!
Nobody, whether pro-gun, anti-gun, from New York or from outside New York, has ever tried to ask the question: How do people in NY feel about guns?
I think this is a problem. Politicians care about votes, but they have no idea how many votes a given position on guns will give them. And maybe it's a blessing, because there are so many anti-gunners in New York that we'd always be a losing minority. But my gut feeling is that there are actually more gun people here than one might think.
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