Political Trivia Test For Gun Owners

[Bartholomew Roberts]

1. When faced with polls showing 68% of the public supporting a semi-auto ban and editorials from ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, USA Today, New York Times, CNN and Times Magazine supporting the same, which party stood by gun owners anyway and killed the 1994 semi-auto ban?

2. Which party's Presidential candidate has twice voted to kill the Civilian Marksmanship Program?

3. Which party rescinded portions of a 1998 Executive Order restricting import of parts for foreign manufactured semi-autos?

4. Which party sponsored legislation banning the M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, Benelli auto-loading shotgun and Remington 11-87 (among hundreds of other guns) as recently as 2003?

5. Name six states where pro-RKBA Senate candidates are in a statistical dead-heat to replace or remove anti-gun Senate candidates.

6. What is the party affiliation of the pro-RKBA candidates in those six states?

7. What is the party affiliation of the anti-RKBA candidates in those six states?

8. Which party introduced and passed the Tiahrt amendment to destroy data on legitimate approved NICS purchases within 24 hours?

9. Which party's Presidential candidate flew back to DC on the biggest day of the primary campaigns and voted to ban most centerfire rifle ammo, including .30-30 by name?

10. How many votes determined who won the electoral votes of New Mexico and Florida in the 2000 Presidential election?

Extra credit questions:

The cumulative total of all third party candidates in the 2000 election was:

A) 2.74%
B) 3.5%
C) 3.74%
D) 5.17%

Arrange the following parties from the 2000 election in order of their percentage of the popular vote:

Democrats, Republicans, Green, Reform, Libertarian, Constituion, Natural Law, Other (includes Socialist Party, Communist Party, Worker's World Party, Socialist Worker's Party, etc.)

 

[Selfdfenz]

Can you PM the answers?
Great questions for which I have fewer than the sum of all the answers.

S-

 

[tyme]

5. Name six states where pro-RKBA Senate candidates are in a statistical dead-heat to replace or remove anti-gun Senate candidates.

Not mine.

10. How many votes determined who won the electoral votes of New Mexico and Florida in the 2000 Presidential election?

More than one.

The cumulative total of all third party candidates in the 2000 election was:

Who cares? The national popular vote is not terribly important. I think what you're looking for is the number of states that Gore won due to third-party votes, and that's very difficult to tell. There were five states where Nader was on the ballot and didn't get more votes than all other 3rd party candidates combined: Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Wyoming. Bush still won all five of those states by a significant margin.

How many States were above that 3.75% average national third-party vote? 26.

Rather than convincing Libertarians not to vote for Badnarik, it's probably more productive to convince Democrats to vote for Cobb or Nader, if you live in a swing state.

 

[Hkmp5sd]

10. How many votes determined who won the electoral votes of New Mexico and Florida in the 2000 Presidential election?

Florida = 537

 

[Selfdfenz]

Thank you for the PM Bartholomew. You make a convincing argument without making an argument at all.

All your stats have the solid ring of truth.

I'll have to admit I'm amazed the Greens did as well as that if I ever heard the number back in the day.
As scary as the Dems are I think the Greens may be scarier!

THX again
S-

 

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Answers

For the curious, here are the answers:

1. When faced with polls showing 68% of the public supporting a semi-auto ban and editorials from ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, USA Today, New York Times, CNN and Times Magazine supporting the same, which party stood by gun owners anyway and killed the 1994 semi-auto ban?

Republican

2. Which party's Presidential candidate has twice voted to kill the Civilian Marksmanship Program?

Democrat

3. Which party rescinded portions of a 1998 Executive Order restricting import of parts for foreign manufactured semi-autos?

Republican

4. Which party sponsored legislation banning the M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, Benelli auto-loading shotgun and Remington 11-87 (among hundreds of other guns) as recently as 2003?

Democrat

5. Name six states where pro-RKBA Senate candidates are in a statistical dead-heat to replace or remove anti-gun Senate candidates.

North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, South Dakota, Colorado, Florida

6. What is the party affiliation of the pro-RKBA candidates in those six states?

Republican

7. What is the party affiliation of the anti-RKBA candidates in those six states?

Democrat

8. Which party introduced and passed the Tiahrt amendment to destroy data on legitimate approved NICS purchases within 24 hours?

Republican

9. Which party's Presidential candidate flew back to DC on the biggest day of the primary campaigns and voted to ban most centerfire rifle ammo, including .30-30 by name?

Democrat

10. How many votes determined who won the electoral votes of New Mexico and Florida in the 2000 Presidential election?

NM: 366
FL: 537

Extra credit questions:

The cumulative total of all third party candidates in the 2000 election was:

A) 2.74%
B) 3.5%
C) 3.74%
D) 5.17%

C) 3.74%

Arrange the following parties from the 2000 election in order of their percentage of the popular vote:

Democrats, Republicans, Green, Reform, Libertarian, Constituion, Natural Law, Other (includes Socialist Party, Communist Party, Worker's World Party, Socialist Worker's Party, etc.)

They are already arranged in the correct order []

Democrats (48.38%), Republicans (47.87%), Green (2.74%), Reform (0.42%), Libertarian (0.36%), Constitution (0.09%), Natural Law (0.08%), Other (0.05%)

 

[Dave R]

Excellent point, Bartholemew.

I believe gun owners for Kerry are too quick to forget the Democratic party's long history on gun control. And are too quick to dismiss the solid gains the Republicans have won on gun control. Are are too quick to focus solely on W's expressed willingness to sign an extension of the AWB.

I would also like to point out the great vitory the Republicans brought in the UN in the early days of the Bush presidency.

You may recall the UN Council on Small Arms had really wanted to issue a statement recommending a ban on private ownership of small arms. The US delegate, newly appointed by the Bush administration, would have none of that. The final statement issued was limited to deploring gun violence.

I consider that a huge victory. A statement by the UN recommending a ban on private ownership of small arms would be huge ammunition for gun banners worldwide, and particularly the well-known Democratic gun banners in the US. The Bush administration denied them that.