USA Today holds poll on Second Amendment

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It asks, 'does it give individuals the right to own guns'.

blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/11/beat-the-high-c.html

currently, 98% yes, 1%no

Pound away!:)
 
Btw, copy/paste the link, don't make any hyperlinks. Sites will eliminate lots of votes being refered by certain domains.
 
currently, 98% yes, 1%no

Nice to see, but pretty meaningless, right. That's telling us that almost of the people who care enough to click on the link are pro-gun. I would have guessed that before they got started.

Mike
 
I am not sure that people who click on the link are pro-gun, but they are people who care about the issue. The general public really doesn't know much about the constitution and cares less.

Example from someone who should know: Chris Mathews badgered Mike Huckabee about his support from Christian fundamentalists, saying the Constitution forbids a religious test for public office. Mathews quoted the constitution correctly but missed the point (deliberately?) that it referred to a religious test in the law. In England a candidate for public office, including military or naval officer rank, had to belong to the Church of England; Roman Catholics were specifically prohibited from holding any office. That was the kind of thing the Constitution banned here; it does not prohibit any voter from making his or her choice based on religion or anything else.

Jim
 
I don't think the totally lopsided results is irrelevant. I will give the naysayers some credibility that pro gun peeps may be passionate enough to vote but aren't we suppose to be vastly outnumbered by an equally rabid anti population? Surely they wouldn't miss an opportunity to express their convictions just as strongly. As far as the general population being disinterested or ignorant then I see that as a positive. It just proves what was the entrenched conventional wisdom that guns are bad period end of story has totally crumbled.
 
20k votes and it's still 1% against. I guess gun guys really are the only ones who care about gun control.
 
Padding poll numbers is like winning something after you cheated.

Its empty and meaningless.
 
This poll only allows you to vote once so I don't want to hear any crap about spam. BTW the Constitution is winning.
 
'does it give individuals the right to own guns'

The Second Amendment doesn't give me anything! It does however limit government power to infringe on my pre-existing right.

I think one of the comments under the poll already addressed this. I would technically vote no.
 
I am at least impresed with the 98%
The 1% will scream for our help, and then law us for carrying a firearm!
The 2nd Amendment is our Permit!

and this from THR some time back.....

The underlying problem concerning the law that "allows" or "requires" us to get a permit is law that makes carrying a gun "unlawful" to begin with. It starts there, then laws are passed that create exceptions to the original law, to allow carry under certain conditions after you jump through a few hoops and pay a fee. It is that original law that is unconstitutional. Eliminate that original law, then there is no opportunity to require permits. B.E.Wood
 
P.S. I would Imagine that the results did not really go as USA Today had hoped! So they will drop it and you will only hear and see the results here on THR or sites like it!
 
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