90% my left nut

[TheMailMan]

There's an article in the Dallas paper this morning talking about Abbott and his proposals to stop school shootings.

One line states that 90% of Texans, including gun owners, support increased aka universal background checks.

I'll call bullflop on this as there's no way in hell you can get 90% of people to agree on anything.

IMHO you would have to get 150% of the non-gun owning public to counteract the gun owners.

 

[MTA]

No one asked me if I did. Polls are horseshit

 

[BRD@66]

No one asked me if I did. Polls are horseshit

^ pretty much this. There just may be a few firearms-oriented people who don't even answer the phone when they don't recognize the caller ID - much less fess up to being a gun owner via a telephone poll.

 

[Southpaw]

They are just regurgitating the same shit that has been going around for years. I doubt they're referencing any new poll.

 

[busykngt]

Fake News

(just made up stats to fit their narrative)

 

[oldag]

A recent poll showed 95% favor my employer doubling my pay...

 

[busykngt]

 

[Charlie]

They probably meant 90% of the people they asked! And probably only asked 10 carefully selected people.

 

[Sam7sf]

One line states that 90% of Texans, including gun owners, support increased aka universal background checks

Yup...more fake news.

 

[Moonpie]

So let me get this straight.......background check for voting is racist hate but background check for gunz is ok?

 

[Kar98]

Dallas Morning News is pretty much the DFW Pravda, maybe slightly to left of the original.

 

[Lunyfringe]

The way to get this result in a poll is all in the wording:

"do you want to avoid putting guns in the hands of criminals?"

yes or no?


apparently 10% of those they polled ARE criminals.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

75% of all polls are made up...

 

[TheMailMan]

Yep. It discriminates against the elderly, poor and people of color to require an ID to vote. But requiring an ID to purchase a firearm doesn't. At least according to the Progressive Liberal mind.

 

[Moonpie]

Yep. It discriminates against the elderly, poor and people of color to require an ID to vote. But requiring an ID to get SSDI, EBT, Welfare, Lone Star Card, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps doesn’t. At least according to the Progressive Liberal mind.

Fixed it for you.

 

[mwrookie]

They probably meant 90% of the people they asked! And probably only asked 10 carefully selected people.

Exactly what I was going to post

 

[TheMailMan]

Fixed it for you.

I don't remember having to show ID to get SSDI. In fact I'm pretty sure I didn't since I handled it all online.

 

[ray55classic]

I seem to remember damn near every poll in the country guaranteed Hitlery would be in the White House too.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Polls also said hillary was going to win.

Polls are B.S. Ignore them...

 

[Ozzman]

Polls are not random either, they are aimed.
I had a chance to add to these polls one time as I received a call from one of these pollsters last year. The lady explained that my answers to the survey would be used as part of a political study or some nonsense like that.

First question they asked me was are you a "Democrat or a Republican"? I responded that "I am neither, and I am more affiliated with the Constitution Party"... Lady said thank you, and my input was no longer needed to complete the survey. She then hung up on me. I didn't even get the chance to laugh in her ear.