Most Americans want assault rifles gone, but slight changes of wording in polls vastly influence the outcome

[gracchus]

@OTee

Technically they are no different but a huge group of people have no clue about how guns work and those are easily manipulatable in both directions.

We’ve heard that argument before.

Guns Don’t Kill Americans, Stale Bad Arguments Do

Claim: People arguing for gun regulation know nothing about guns and how they work, and so are motivated by irrational fear and aren’t qualified to have an opinion about them. This is intended to have the effect of burying the discussion in a heap of technological bafflegab that goes something like this: “Describe the function of each part shown in the diagram, and submit draft legislation for each to address the issue of gun violence. Then we’ll talk regulation.” [image] There have been en…

If you would like to challenge his points please do so in the catch-all topic linked above.