Jonathan Ganz wrote:
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katy wrote:

Why not... good idea. Too bad Reagan didn't think so. Someone
clinically depressed certainly should be restricted from easy access
to guns. Hate to tell you, but the majority of Americans favor more
strick gun control...

Obviously, you don't have the facts...

Some polls:

http://www.pollingreport.com/guns.htm

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLI...uns/index.html



If that were really so, then there would be legislation...after all, we
are goventment by the people for the people...if what you say was RALLY
true, then the people would rise up and do something about it...if a
person says they're against something, but does nothing to change it and
sits in apathy, then they are really not agaisnt it...they just like to
blat their mouths off with an opinion...I think the more valid statistic
would be that most Americans just don't give a crap...if they did,
they'd do something...


I know you're a very innocent person, but do you dispute the polls? Do
you think the NRA is just going to lie down and let Congress regulate
their business without a fight? They pour millions into their hands
everytime a piece of legislation that would restrict their business
shows up.


Polls? You believe polls? How about Santa CLause, the Easter Bunny and
the Tooth Fairy, too, while you're at it? No, I have no belief in
polls. They are slanted to the poll developers slant. And I am not an
innocent...I am well aware of what goes on in the world.

In article ,
katy wrote:
Polls? You believe polls? How about Santa CLause, the Easter Bunny and
the Tooth Fairy, too, while you're at it? No, I have no belief in
polls. They are slanted to the poll developers slant. And I am not an
innocent...I am well aware of what goes on in the world.

How do you propose we find out what the public wants if we don't use
polls? Are all the polls wrong or just the ones you don't like?


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Jonathan Ganz wrote:
In article ,
katy wrote:

Polls? You believe polls? How about Santa CLause, the Easter Bunny and
the Tooth Fairy, too, while you're at it? No, I have no belief in
polls. They are slanted to the poll developers slant. And I am not an
innocent...I am well aware of what goes on in the world.


How do you propose we find out what the public wants if we don't use
polls? Are all the polls wrong or just the ones you don't like?


The majority of polls are slanted and biased...I suggest rather than
polls we vote...I've listened to people taking polls...half of them
don't even understand what they're being asked...I even doubt that more
than 50% of those that go to the voting booth vote with anything but a
gut feeling or a biased belief founded more on peer pressure, familial
history, or the 30 minute nightly news interspersed with commercials for
Burger King...I do not believe the average American is an informed
voter...and yet, they do their "patriotic" duty and parade off to the
voting booth uninformed or unable to dicipher facts, figures, and
opinions...

In article ,
katy wrote:
The majority of polls are slanted and biased...I suggest rather than
polls we vote...I've listened to people taking polls...half of them
don't even understand what they're being asked...I even doubt that more
than 50% of those that go to the voting booth vote with anything but a
gut feeling or a biased belief founded more on peer pressure, familial
history, or the 30 minute nightly news interspersed with commercials for
Burger King...I do not believe the average American is an informed
voter...and yet, they do their "patriotic" duty and parade off to the
voting booth uninformed or unable to dicipher facts, figures, and
opinions...

Ah, the majority. You must have a consensus on that position.


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"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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In article ,
katy wrote:
Polls? You believe polls? How about Santa CLause, the Easter Bunny and
the Tooth Fairy, too, while you're at it? No, I have no belief in
polls. They are slanted to the poll developers slant. And I am not an
innocent...I am well aware of what goes on in the world.

How do you propose we find out what the public wants if we don't use
polls? Are all the polls wrong or just the ones you don't like?

We, as a population, are over-polled. Polls are conducted for anything
these days. We poll the people to see how often they have sex, what brand
of peanut butter they buy, who in Hollywood they find appealing, etc. ad
nauseum. I tend to believe people are dishonest or disinterested w/r/t
being polled. The proof of that is how radically and quickly polls of
identical issues can change virtually overnight.

Max

"Maxprop" wrote in message
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I tend to believe people are dishonest or disinterested w/r/t being
polled. The proof of that is how radically and quickly polls of
identical issues can change virtually overnight.

Max


You're right. Just remember how fast they changed from communism to
capitalism under Lech Walesa . . .

Wilbur Hubbard

In article . net,
Maxprop wrote:
We, as a population, are over-polled. Polls are conducted for anything
these days. We poll the people to see how often they have sex, what brand
of peanut butter they buy, who in Hollywood they find appealing, etc. ad
nauseum. I tend to believe people are dishonest or disinterested w/r/t
being polled. The proof of that is how radically and quickly polls of
identical issues can change virtually overnight.

I, on the other had, believe people are basically honest w/r/t most
things, including polls, but I'm a liberal.

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