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Latest Gallup poll
It's online here.
Reminds me of a poll done back in the 70s, where they actually probed the question -- if you think gun laws should be made more strict, just what would you want to see? The most frequent answers were things should be outlawed that were already illegal (most frequent answer was that there should be laws forbidding convicted felons to own guns).
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There are still people that believe that fully automatic weapons can be bought by anyone at any hardware or sports store. And the media does nothing to contradict their ignorance.
Well, people see criminals getting caught with full-auto weapons and they make assumptions. However, they don't take into account the nature of the Black Market. It is a completely unrestricted market with no morals or ethics. You can buy anything: drugs, guns, and even human beings.
If there is money to be made, criminals will find a way to make it.
It seems that pollsters avoid asking the really interesting questions. For instance, in polls of GW Bush poularity, I think they should ask questions that break out conservatives who are unhappy with him from the obvious liberals, who will always be unhappy with any Republican president. Maybe his unpopularity is from conservatives who want more conservatism. But we never seem to get that kind of poll.
On gun questions, they don't much ask the sorts of questions you mention. Just bland and simple.