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Originally Posted by slapass
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Interesting stats. I did notice something very interesting, to me at least, it seems that over the time period those stats covered, the number of people refusing to answer the question tripled, as did the number of people claiming their personal guns were "missing".
A few (3 or 4) years ago I lived in Illinois and had to get a FOID card to own a gun, I was told at the time the permits were taking months to issue because Illinois was swamped with applications. There were similar reports from around the country that application processing was backed up.
I notice that increasingly, the media is trying to make us think everyone is on board for stuff so we feel like we should be too.
"everyone supports this, everyone supports that" Where are these people that are supporting this and that? I can't seem to find them but the phone operator doing the survey did, so I guess they are out there, at least they claim to be.
I don't have a lot of faith in polls, I used to run phone campaigns for a living and it seems like increasingly, it's a special kind of person who will participate in a phone survey, most likely not a solid representation of the majority. I can't tell how this poll was conducted or what the total number of respondents were from the .pdf but I think the trebling of respondents refusing to say whether they had a gun and the trebling of respondents claiming their guns were missing is at least as interesting as the decline. I mean if 3% of your respondents flat out refuse to answer, how many others are straight lying?
Also as far as the white to black aspect of gun ownership, we hear a lot about disproportionate prosecution and incarceration of black males, which generally makes it illegal for them to own guns, either temporarily or permanently. This would obviously directly impact the % of black men who own a gun and will admit it to a stranger.
So not saying those polls are wrong, but they may be telling us more than they intend to.