Reply #18: because polls can easily be skewed. [View All]

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as for "the vast majority of Americans support it", well, that was true of segregation, too. That didn't make it right.

BTW, it wasn't "every poll". Polls commissioned by anti-gun groups show gun control is tremendously popular. Polls commissioned by pro-gun groups show gun control is tremendously UNpopular. The truth is in between. There is a tiny group of people out there that are rabidly anti-gun (I'd be shocked if it was over 100K). There's a much larger group of people out there that are rabidly pro-gun, but it's still not huge (<5 million). Then there are the actual legal gun owners (between 80-100 million americans, every one of whom is eligible to vote) out there. It's one thing to piss off the rabid pro-gunners. It's quite another to piss off all (or a sizeable fraction of) gun owners. And the AW ban in '94 pissed off a LOT of gun owners.