I still haven't read any of John Lott's books but the more I hear or read what he has to say the more convinced I am that there's at least SOMEONE out there who actually knows that they're talking about with firearms issues. Maybe it's that "great minds think alike" thing. ;-)
This article suggests that "Polls give a skewed picture of gun issues". In the immortal words of Gomer Pyle, "Surprise, surprise, surprise." followed by the 21st century lexicon term, "Not!"
"While deserving our greatest sympathy for the tragedy they have personally suffered, Giffords and Kelly are plain wrong about the “common-sense gun-control proposals” they advocate.
The couple’s message emphasizes polling data, which they claim finds that 80 percent to 90 percent of Americans are in favor of expanded background-checks legislation.
The polls showing such overwhelming support really ask little more than whether people want to stop criminals from obtaining guns, not whether voters actually favor the legislation that Giffords and Kelly support."Wait a minute, stop the presses! You mean someone wants gun control advocates or uninformed voters to get SPECIFIC?!?! We can't have that. It would undermine the whole gun control campaign, nationwide, overnight!
"For example, a mid-April poll by the Pew Research Center provides one such illustration when it asks voters whether they were happy that the Senate bill had been defeated. While 67 percent of Democrats were “disappointed” or “angry” about the defeat, more Republicans and independents were “ very happy” or “relieved” than upset by the defeat.
Kelly often points out how the approval rating for some of the senators who voted against gun control has dropped over the past six months or so. Most of this polling is from the Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling. Rasmussen Reports finds President Barack Obama’s own disapproval rating on guns also rose by 13 percentage points from February to early June. In April, a Quinnipiac University poll found only 41 percent of Americans approved of Obama's stand on gun control."
The President's "disapproval" rating on gun control rose 13 points. Hmmm, what are we going to do about this? (Insert Democratic and gun control shuffle here.) Lie! Distract! Repeat the lies! Throw shiny things!
"The polls frequently ignore that gun-control advocates don’t feel very intensely about this issue. The latest Gallup poll in late June finds that gun control doesn’t even reach the top 15 issues that Americans were most concerned about. In April, gun control ranked ninth, but just 4 percent of Americans were most concerned about that issue."
Where have I heard this before? Thinking...
"Note these questions emphasize the supposed benefits from background checks but leave out concerns about a gun registry and the fees imposed on gun transfers, and that almost everyone stopped by the current background-check system was a falsely flagged, law-abiding citizen who had a similar name to the person whom the government wanted stopped."
OMG! What?!? You mean those millions of 'criminals' who we've been told have been denied the ability to purchase firearms through background checks are actually NOT the criminals they've been reported to be? It could be ME because a criminal might share my name? Surely our elected leaders would have told me that all this proposed legislation could affect ME! Wrongly!
"A March survey of active duty and retired police by PoliceOne, with more than 400,000 police officers as members, found that only 12 percent of the 15,000 who responded think that universal background checks will reduce violent crime. Because respondents were self-selecting, the survey was not scientific and, therefore, its accuracy can’t be determined. But it does show that a significant number of police are dubious about the proposal."
(Insert Harry Caray's voice here.) Holy cow! Not even the police believe background checks are the answer? This simply cannot be true! Senator Dianne Feinstein told us that gun control had the support of "all the police". And what's this? An admission that the data is not scientific? I KNOW I've never heard that kind of admission from a gun control advocate! But this sounds strangely familiar. Still thinking...
"Unfortunately, despite Kelly’s claims, a background check would not have stopped the man who shot his wife from getting a gun. Jared Loughner had never been legally found to suffer mental illness, nor had he ever been convicted of a crime. Nor would any background checks on private transfers have stopped the Connecticut, Wisconsin, Colorado or other attacks. In addition, the system couldn’t work without government registering all guns.
Expanded background checks might well be reasonable, but only if the current system is fixed."
Got it! I know where I've come across these things before. Right here in this blog and in the sources I've provided when writing it!
2nd Amendment and gun rights advocates share data and sources and openly discuss them. Gun control advocates lie, deceive and mislead.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2013/07/05/1-polls-give-a-skewed-picture-of-gun-issues.html
John Lott's books at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=john%20lott&sprefix=john+lot%2Caps&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ajohn%20lott
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