UN Gun Ban Poll on CNN

[Sylvan-Forge]

10:36 PM EST

43 % YES (28936 votes)
57 % NO (39128 votes)

 

[Thor67]

CNN's UN Gun Ban Poll Moved

Poll moved to here:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/21/un.us.small.arms.ap/index.html

 

[AndyC]

Yes - 44% 30507 votes

No - 56% 39181 votes

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Do you believe the U.N. is trying to outlaw gun ownership in the U.S.?
Yes 44% 30727 votes
No 56% 39191 votes
Total: 69918 votes

If I have been deceived on this issue, it was by Rebecca Peters
and IANSA: Peters is the one that convinced me she intended to
use the SALW conference to Australiaize AMerica.

 

[Sam Adams]

Creeping Incrementalism

How could you tell that it didn't register? Did you click see results, go back and vote, then refresh the results page?

Yes, exactly. I didn't check back later, as others on this thread did, so I didn't see the subsequent change of numbers.

Note that many polls like this simply get pulled if the numbers start going in the opposite direction to that desired by the poll takers. Simply not counting the "Yes" votes seemed like a new variation on that theme.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

And todays results 3 Jul 06

Do you believe the U.N. is trying to outlaw gun ownership in the U.S.?
Yes 48% 36185 votes
No 52% 39359 votes
Total: 75544 votes

 

[the naked prophet]

Many of these types of polls only tally results every few minutes. Let's not be so quick to assume they might be cheating. I wouldn't put it past them, but there is plenty of room for reasonable doubt.

 

[benEzra]

One of the frustrating things about this is that the CNN question is a straw man. No one is claiming that IANSA is trying to ban ALL guns in the United States. Just all handguns, self-loading rifles, and precision rifles with nontraditional styling, as in Australia.

By wording the question in this way, CNN is actively trying to slant the debate. The question isn't whether the UN conference would like to ban ALL guns in the U.S., but whether or not the UN conference is advocating ANY additional controls on currently legal civilian firearms in the U.S. The answer to the second question is quite obviously yes.

 

[dmckean44]

What exactly is a "precision rifle with nontraditional styling"? Are we talking about parkerized barrels and sythetic stocks or something else??

 

[Prof. A. Wickwire]

Yes 48%
36258 votes

No 52%
39361 votes

Total: 75619 votes

As of my Yes vote.

Sincerely,

Prof. A. Wickwire

 

[LAK]

This - and current cited artcles in related threads - is the first stage in yet another familiar pattern. This is the "fielding the idea" stage of the m.o.

This is where it is tossed into the open to be kicked around for general exposure. The next stage is the "debate" stage, where the questions like "Should the U.N. ban firearms ownership ... " are entered, where the "subjectivity" is introduced and applied and the lines drawn up.

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http://ussliberty.org
http://ssunitedstates.org

 

[Marshall]

It's still 48% yes to 52% no.

36460 votes
39362 votes

 

[Gun_nut]

today its the fourth and its 48yes 52no

 

[sparx]

And still at 48% Yes and 52% No on the 5th.

 

[orangelo]

One of the frustrating things about this is that the CNN question is a straw man. No one is claiming that IANSA is trying to ban ALL guns in the United States. Just all handguns, self-loading rifles, and precision rifles with nontraditional styling, as in Australia.

No what they are going for is a complete blanket gun ban. No air guns, no pellet guns, no firearms, no muzzleloaders, EVERYTHING.

That rebecca peters witch has said it herself. Any gun that can throw a projectile past 100 meters should be banned.

Guess what? Most pellet guns and all .22LR rifles and pistols can do such a feat.

 

[mountainclmbr]

Still 48% to 52% at 10:51 EST on July 5. The links did not work, but do a search "on CNN" for UN Gun Ban and it will come up as NRA Unloads on UN.

 

[Yeager]

I just love how they titled it "the NRA "unloads" on the UN".

 

[sparx]

UPDATE: July 7th, 11:00 AM CST

The RKBA crowd has moved up a notch! It now stands at:

49% YES - 37137 votes (getting there!)
51% No - 39370 votes

The link still works, and for those that need it, it's:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/21/un.us.small.arms.ap/index.html

But remember to cut & paste the URL into your browser so their logs won't be full of referers from THR and possibly get nullified.

 

[GeorgiaGlocker]

I don't watch the Clinton News Network.

 

[Art Eatman]

GeorgiaGlocker, you SHOULD occasionally watch CNN, just as you should read Lenin and others: Know your enemy.

, Art

 

[Carl N. Brown]

11 July 2006 and still up

Do you believe the U.N. is trying to outlaw gun ownership in the U.S.?
Yes 49% 37307 votes
No 51% 39375 votes
Total: 76682 votes

 

[Ira Aten]

It should read...

The poll should read

"...Do you believe your so-called Representatives in Congress and your President would respond in any manner whatsoever, against the United Nations troops if the United Nations sent in "peace keepers" to confiscate your means of self defense against tyranical government?"

It would be scary to see the results on that one.

 

[sparx]

The NO's are staying steady, but the YES's are slowly advancing with just a smidgen over 2K left to go for at least a tie. I thought we would have advanced more than we have by now, seeing as we seemingly have a window of opportunity to get a 2nd wind (no pun intended) and overtake them to show CNN what the USA thinks of the UN folly. Kind of depressing, but I'll continue to vote daily until they pull the poll.

Do you believe the U.N. is trying to outlaw gun ownership in the U.S.?

YES 49% - 37338 votes (just 2,037 behind the NO's!)
NO 51% - 39375 votes
Total: 76713 votes