Hope for the future
Has anybody seen the latest instalment of The Power Of 10?
The week of August 20th, 2007, Host Drew Carey posed a question about gun control to the contestant: what percentage of Americans believe that Americans should be allowed to own automatic weapons?
The answer was 41%. I watched the show and the audience applauded. If, as Drew notes from time to time, that the Poll was conducted of New Yorkers, man, am I impressed! The significance is that on the question of ‘automatic weapons’, the finding is not 1 or 2 percent or even 10 or 20 percent, but a thriving 41%.
And Drew, thank you for your service. I didn’t know you are a Marine.
Awesome.
August 24th, 2007 at 9:59 am
I’d be a lot happier about this if I didn’t no that most people consider a 1911 or a Glock an automatice firearm. I wonder if the poll question specified full auto.
August 24th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Yeah, I got that one totally wrong. Went way low. I was both suprised and pleased when they said 41%.
August 25th, 2007 at 1:15 am
I am pleased that people are realizing that automatic weapons can be legally owned by US Citizens. But the prices are daunting, compared to those the ‘third world’ pays.
Our market price: $15,000; theirs $100 – $400.