Just making stuff up

On the front page of the Washington Post is the link to an EJ Dionne piece that says that gun owners want more gun laws, despite what the NRA says;

The opinion piece is about a Luntz poll. Says Frank Lutz;

The survey, which will be released soon, wasn’t conducted by some liberal outfit but by Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster lately famous for providing talking points against the Democrats’ health-care bills.

“I support the NRA,” Luntz insists. What he doesn’t go for is the “slippery slope argument” that casts any new gun law as the first step toward confiscation. “When the choice is between national security and terrorism versus no limits on owning guns,” Luntz says, “I’m on the side of national security and fighting terrorism.”

So, naturally, the poll is going to reflect Luntz’ opinion. But, far from the Washington Post’s assertion, this is what the people polled wanted regulated;

In his survey of 832 gun owners, including 401 NRA members, Luntz found that 82 percent of NRA members supported “prohibiting people on the terrorist watch lists from purchasing guns.” Sixty-nine percent favored “requiring all gun sellers at gun shows to conduct criminal background checks of the people buying guns,” and 78 percent backed “requiring gun owners to alert police if their guns are lost or stolen.” Among gun owners who did not belong to the NRA, the numbers were even higher.

Yes, I agree that people on terrorism watch lists shouldn’t buy guns and that there should be a national data base available for gun show sales and stolen weapons – but let’s get the technology done first before we start writing laws.

It’s hardly a call for the restrictive gun purchases that Dionne and the Washington Post want enacted, but Dionne says this is proof that the NRA has lost touch with it’s membership (out of millions, a few hundred were polled) and that Congress should take this as a cue to enact more restrictive legislation.

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