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General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Shooting Sports => Topic started by: txradioguy on February 05, 2019, 06:48:16 pm

Title: Political Scientists: Gun Owners are Politically Weaker than People Think
Post by: txradioguy on February 05, 2019, 06:48:16 pm

Think only one-quarter of the population has guns in the house, do you? <laughs in private sales gun owners>

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“I would argue non-gun owners still overestimate the size of gun ownership, because gun owners seem politically powerful in the United States because it seems so hard to put restrictions on guns,” [said University of Kansas political scientist] Haider-Markel.

If more Americans knew the real size of the gun-owning population in the U.S., they might view that population as politically weaker, he said.

– AP News for Washington Times, Most Americans Overestimate Gun Ownership

As for being politically weaker, well, I will say I think a sad majority of gun owners are politically lazy….


https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/02/kat-ainsworth/political-scientists-gun-owners-are-politically-weaker-than-people-think/ (https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/02/kat-ainsworth/political-scientists-gun-owners-are-politically-weaker-than-people-think/)

Title: Re: Political Scientists: Gun Owners are Politically Weaker than People Think
Post by: Elderberry on February 05, 2019, 07:02:22 pm

Going to the link it makes it look like the words are from Kat Ainsworth, but she just cut and pasted Mark Joslyn's words from the AP article.

Title: Re: Political Scientists: Gun Owners are Politically Weaker than People Think
Post by: Polly Ticks on February 05, 2019, 07:20:27 pm

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[...] it seems so hard to put restrictions on guns,” [said University of Kansas political scientist] Haider-Markel.

That pesky Constitution just keeps getting in the way.