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Poll: 46% say NRA reflects their view on guns, 43% say Obama does

More than 90 percent of U.S. voters supported background checks for all gun buyers, while much smaller majorities were for stricter gun control laws such as bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, said a poll released on Thursday.

But the National Rifle Association (NRA) edged out President Barack Obama in the poll, with 46 percent saying the pro-gun lobby better reflects their views on guns, versus 43 percent for Obama.

By a margin of 92 percent to 7 percent, voters supported background checks, the Quinnipiac University telephone poll showed. In households with a gun, 91 percent were in favor, while 8 percent were opposed, Quinnipiac said.

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Poll: 46% say NRA reflects their view on guns, 43% say Obama does is their overlord

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Bitter Clinger on February 7, 2013 at 9:42 AM

Poll: 46% say NRA reflects their view on guns, 43% say Obama does is their overlord messiah

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Bitter Clinger on February 7, 2013 at 9:42 AM

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Dr. Frank Enstine on February 7, 2013 at 9:45 AM

Tony Bennett: Without Gun Control, U.S. May Turn Into Nazi Germany

Tony needs to pick up a history book or two.

Bmore on February 7, 2013 at 9:50 AM

Do these folks even know what Obama’s views on guns are?

Doughboy on February 7, 2013 at 9:57 AM

Poll: 46% say NRA reflects their view on guns, 43% say Obama does is their overlord messiah Daddy

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Bitter Clinger on February 7, 2013 at 9:42 AM

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Dr. Frank Enstine on February 7, 2013 at 9:45 AM

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Galt2009 on February 7, 2013 at 10:01 AM

Poll: 46% say NRA reflects their view on guns, 43% say Obama does is their overlord messiah Daddy

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Stop this train, I want to get off.

Galt2009 on February 7, 2013 at 10:02 AM

More than 90 percent of U.S. voters supported background checks for all gun buyers

How many of them understand that the proposed changes would include having to background check your own kid if you passed on a heritage .22 rifle?

Bishop on February 7, 2013 at 10:02 AM

50/50 nation my friends

blatantblue on February 7, 2013 at 10:05 AM

I just tried polling the Right brothers — Inalienable, Natural and G. Given — and they refused, saying polls don’t mean sh!t. Then they opened their jackets showing they were armed to the teeth and told be to bug off.

Dusty on February 7, 2013 at 10:05 AM

Polls are irrelevant.

This is a question of the continued inclusion of the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights.

If they want to do the whole gun control thing, then they have to repeal the amendment.

Otherwise, any attempt to infringe upon that inalienable right is illegitimate and will be dealt with accordingly.

turfmann on February 7, 2013 at 10:07 AM

Background checks = gun registration = gun confiscation.
Anyone who doesn’t understand this is a fool.

trs on February 7, 2013 at 10:17 AM

…and 11% told the pollsters to shove it.

Vince on February 7, 2013 at 10:18 AM

More than 90 percent of U.S. voters supported background checks for all gun buyers

How many of them understand that the proposed changes would include having to background check your own kid if you passed on a heritage .22 rifle?

Bishop on February 7, 2013 at 10:02 AM

Do people realize that this would mean that the government would have control of your personal property?

WTF is wrong with people that every freaking time a Criminal commits a heinous crime; innocent people lose some of their freedom?

How are they going to enforce “background checks for all gun buyers” without registration?

How are they going to enforce “background checks for all gun buyers” without the government controlling everyone’s property?

And do those 90% realize that registration leads to CONFISCATION?

Galt2009 on February 7, 2013 at 10:28 AM

0% is the percentage of polls I give a damn about. This is a way to make news and further pet narratives of the luciferian reprobate left. To Gehenna with them all.

tom daschle concerned on February 7, 2013 at 10:33 AM

Which of Obama’s views on guns are we talking about. The dishonest one he expresses in public, or the real one that wants to repeal The Second Amendment?

RadClown on February 7, 2013 at 10:58 AM

Do these folks even know what Obama’s views on guns are?

Doughboy on February 7, 2013 at 9:57 AM

Exactly! So many mindless Democratic drones will just automatically say they’re more like Obama than the NRA without knowing the position of either. I’d say about half of my friends that vote Democrat can’t articulate a single policy they’re voting for. They just know their parents or good friends always vote Democrat so it must be the right way to vote.

ButterflyDragon on February 7, 2013 at 11:37 AM

Tyranny of the Minority

blammm on February 7, 2013 at 12:06 PM