Fake news and guns

AFP reports that Quinnipiac University has polled 1,577 people and that 95% of them support background checks for gun buyers. The problem is that gun buyers are already required to be vetted with background checks.

Sixty-five percent of those surveyed said they supported a nationwide ban on sales of assault weapons while 31 percent said they were opposed.

That was also a new high and up from March 2013, when 54 percent said they supported an assault weapons ban while 41 percent were opposed.

That’s easy to believe because no one really knows what the media or the Leftists are calling “assault weapons”. Take this from USAToday;

And this, from an Ohio affiliate of NBC;

With all of the scary misinformation, fake news, if you will, who is really surprised about how the public answers polls.

In other findings, 91 percent of those polled said they support a ban on sales of guns to people convicted of violent crimes.

People convicted of felonies are prohibited from buying firearms now – they have been prohibited since the Gun Control Act of 1968 – you know, when Congress acted to prohibit people like Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan and James Earl Ray from getting their hands on guns.

Thirty-four percent of those polled said stricter gun laws would help prevent mass shootings, but 62 percent said shooters would find a way around tighter laws and commit the crimes anyway.

Yeah, gun control only affects law-abiding citizens from buying guns to protect themselves from the criminals who will always get guns. But, legislators got to legislate. The media has to create a crisis for the legislators to play to. You’d think that a responsible news organization would point out these fallacies in the poll, but then I’d be out of a job, wouldn’t I?

ADDED: The Giffords have decided that the 2d Amendment isn’t about muskets, after all. They want gun control applied to black powder guns now.

The group views the centuries-old firearms technology, which was rendered obsolete shortly after the Civil War due to advancements in self-contained ammunition cartridges and semi-automatic; self-loading firearms, as dangerous because a silencer can legally be attached to it without the paperwork or tax stamp associated with other firearms silencers.

“Cue the .50 caliber muzzleloader, which delivers a particularly lethal .50 caliber round,” the report said. “This weapon is designed with a built-in device to suppress its sound. If any other firearm were built with such a device, it would be subject to the NFA as a silencer. But since this device is designed to suppress the sound of something that is exempt from federal firearms laws, it is not considered a silencer and not subject to the NFA. In fact, it is not subject to any laws at all and can be bought online.”

The group called on Congress to take action and pass new laws restricting muzzleloaders and the other products outlined in the report.

When was the last time a muzzleloader was used in a crime? In the last 150 years, I mean.

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