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Gun Control Reform Activism

flamin lib

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2. I think 97% is a bit high for the population at large.

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 16, 2015, 02:34 PM

Sep 2015

At your average gun rights discussion group yes, but not most gun owners. 85% of NRA members support some form of regulation in addition to the existing laws.

Even so, only 32% of households admit to having guns. I'm sure that 32% votes with the same abysmal rate as non gun owners but assuming that everybody votes, if 15% of that 32% vote, the foam-at-the-mouth gunz nutz only accounts for 5% of the vote. (125,000,000 households x .32 = 40,000,000 x .15 = 6,000,000 possible foam induced votes). That's assuming that every foaming mouth household member votes the same way.

Like Saul Alinsky said, they (the gun lobby) have the money, we have the people.

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