{"id":129896,"date":"2022-08-29T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129896"},"modified":"2022-08-28T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T16:55:16","slug":"polls-say-voters-want-gun-control-actual-voters-say-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129896","title":{"rendered":"Polls say voters want gun control, actual voters say differently"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OK, she’s a repeat. I like brunettes. I get to pick the pic, so there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is not a shock that polls are inaccurate. It IS news, though, when one of the most historically anti-gun publications around: The NY Times, The Grey Lady, “All the news that fits, we print” admits that while all the ‘reputable polls’ say high percentages of voters want\u00a0 universal registration, want universal background checks, hate ‘assault weapons’, blah blah blah, that in the only polls that really count – elections – anti-gunners are doing ‘way worse than expected. You can tell Joe Citizen he doesn’t need or want a gun and he may nod his head and agree – until he hears a noise in the night and suddenly “dammit honey, I am buying a GUN and you can just shut up!”<\/p>\n

For instance, based on survey data, 86-percent of Nevadans supposedly supported the criminalization of private transfers. However, when Nevadans went to the polls in 2016 to vote on the policy, the measure barely passed with 50.45-percent of the vote.<\/p>\n

A similar story played out in Maine. According to the New York Times item, 83-percent of Mainers were expected to support a background check ballot measure in 2016. On election day Maine residents voted the policy down, with 52-percent opposing the measure. Even in deep blue states like Washington and California, private transfer ballot measures have underperformed expectations by about 20-30 percent.<\/p>\n

The usual theories for America\u2019s conservative gun politics do not explain the poor showings. The supporters of the initiatives outspent the all-powerful gun lobby. All manner of voters, not just single-issue voters or politicians, got an equal say. The Senate was not to blame; indeed, the results suggested that a national referendum on background checks would have lost<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NY Times – Nate Cohn<\/a><\/p>\n

Part\u00a0 of their problem seems to be that the more voters learn about the specific proposed laws, the less they like the way those laws are written:<\/p>\n

David Farmer, who led the Maine effort for universal background checks in 2016, said that supporters of gun rights can be particularly persuasive once a concrete proposal is unveiled. In Maine, polling support for the measure declined between introduction and the final vote, before failing, 52-48.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NY Times – Margot Sanger-Katz<\/a><\/p>\n

“Damn right, tax the rich. Wait a minutes, whaddya mean, the law says I’M rich? Wait a minute now…”<\/p>\n

The two above quotes from the Times are behind a paywall. You can also see good write-ups on them at NRA-ILA<\/a> and Buckeye Firearms<\/a>.\u00a0 Nate Cohn seems to have a nasty honest streak which may jeopardize his future with the Times, he wrote a similar piece exposing the soft general support for gun control back in 2012, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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