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Showing Original Post only (View all)How do you know the things you know about guns? [View all]
Various proposals toward firearm regulation focus on firearms technology and type (e.g., assault weapon bans). Terminology gets flung about: assault weapon, large/small caliber, assault rifle, bolt action, semi-automatic, automatic, magazine, clip, revolver, scope, machine gun, etc etc etc.
So, for the people who participate in these discussions in this Group, what would you say is your primary source of knowledge about firearms technology? (If more than one, choose the main one and elaborate below.)
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Personal experience - e.g. hunting, target shooting, competition | |
15 (71%) |
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Professional experience - e.g. military training, law enforcement | |
4 (19%) |
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Self-directed research - e.g. internet search, magazines, shop visits | |
1 (5%) |
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Information from 'gun control' organizations | |
0 (0%) |
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Information from 'gun rights' organizations | |
0 (0%) |
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Television, movies, and other entertainments | |
0 (0%) |
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News reports and op-eds | |
0 (0%) |
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Other (specified below) | |
0 (0%) |
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This is an unimportant (goofy, useless, irrelevant) question, for the reason(s) specified below | |
1 (5%) |
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0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
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That's the most forthright argument for willful ignorance I've ever seen
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2014
#12
It's the only game they have. Honest discourse would lead to defeat of their arguments.
NYC_SKP
Mar 2014
#13
How exactly do you propose confiscating 300 million+ firearms, billions of magazines,
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#18
So you propose making the manufacture of all firearms, magazines, and ammunition illegal.
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#23
Dissension from their philosophy of civilian disarmament is too much for them to bear.
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#25