Guns and Gun Owners

[Dusty Stevens]

Sadly you may be correct. Some doctors are asking if you have firearms at home and how much booze you drink. Answer: all I can afford and all I can drink.

I tell em im drunk right now!

 

[Terry_M]

I tell em im drunk right now!

They can usually smell it on me so don't bother asking, and it's usually at the ER.....

 

[jackson1]

Rarely participate in polls, rarely answer the phone unless I know who is calling. Always lie when I believe I am talking to a communist or dim. I believe I am not alone in my views. How accurate do you believe these polls are? Polls have an agenda, put there by the builder.

 

[Joe Salt]

Would never participate in any gun poll, they know to much about me already with a New York state Concealed Carry permit.

Joe Salt

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

My doctor started to ask me if there were guns in my house, I stopped him asking if he saw any gunshot wounds on me. He hasn't mentioned firearms since.

 

[Downeast]

I lie all the time. I even lied on the census.

I'm lying now.

 

[Daddymac]

Polls are as accurate as pollsters want them to be.

 

[jds holler]

When ya think about it, every question on every poll that we are likely to be confronted with is almost in the category of
"Have you stopped beating your wife?"

Any answer you provide will be used in a way to slant or slander the results. jd

 

[Nick Caprinolo]

I read the report. It is interesting, especially since the author expressed no opinion, on the the right of ownership or concealed carry issues. Hard for me to figure out an adverse agenda here.

I did however wonder about the average age of ownership. It could be that a family where they grow up shooting and hunting together and the children have taken constructive ownership because each has a designated rifle or pistol assigned to them for use.

By the way, I did not check any of the sources for the statistics the survey is based on.

 

[Papa Charlie]

The problem with surveys and polls is that you can take the same information and spin it to support either side of a argument.
Most will pick the demography to poll based on the answers they want, or they will word the questions in such a way that they lead you to the inevitable response they are looking for. Finally they limit the number of they poll to ensure that they are not going to reach outside of the realm of the desired outcome.

These were the simple lessons that I took from the statics classes I took in college. All of which boils down to statics is another word for propaganda. Sadly, too many of the population take these surveys or polls to heart without making one single effort to validate or do their own research. As a result, the halls of congress are filled with anti Americans.

 

[Alexander-M]

Polls - ha!

Remember the polls just prior to the 2016 elections? We may all be in jail for owning a gun if the polls had been correct, and Hillary had been the elected - God forbid!

Remember, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over (such as relying on polls) and expecting a different result*(and expecting the polls to be accurate).

Alex
PS. * Quote attributed to Einstein

 

[DRNewcomb]

out of curiosity, has anyone here ever been contacted in any of these polls?

I was called recently by Nielson about logging our radio listening habits. We later got a card thanking us but saying that our area was not needed for the survey.

 

[jmm03]

good points about responding to polls in general,(I would not respond to questions from an unknown caller either) I was mainly curious if anyone had actually ever been contacted or if what I suspect is closer to the truth is that pollsters skew the results demographically by contacting those that they know will respond in a way that suits their purpose.

 

[David Milisock]

Sadly you may be correct. Some doctors are asking if you have firearms at home and how much booze you drink. Answer: all I can afford and all I can drink.

When my doctor ask about guns I told my doctor to screw himself!

 

[ronsatspokane]

Rarely participate in polls, rarely answer the phone unless I know who is calling. Always lie when I believe I am talking to a communist or dim. I believe I am not alone in my views. How accurate do you believe these polls are? Polls have an agenda, put there by the builder.

That's pretty much everyone I know. Not difficult to understand how the polls told us that Hillary would win. The demographic that likes to talk about their opinions are seen every day on MSM channels. Likewise, not difficult to understand how a poll on gun ownership would result in significant under reporting. 20 years ago there were an estimated 300 million guns in the hands of 300 million people. With the number of guns sold over the last 20 years, my bet would would be well over 400 million. Polls that report only a small fraction of the real extent of ownership are suspect from the get go. What purpose and whose interest could such a poll serve. That was a rhetorical question.

 

[ronsatspokane]

good points about responding to polls in general,(I would not respond to questions from an unknown caller either) I was mainly curious if anyone had actually ever been contacted or if what I suspect is closer to the truth is that pollsters skew the results demographically by contacting those that they know will respond in a way that suits their purpose.

I get called all the time. Never pick up the phone if I don't know who it is. I don't even pick up the phone when the caller id identifies the caller as the party I voted for in the last election.

 

[ronsatspokane]

My doctor started to ask me if there were guns in my house, I stopped him asking if he saw any gunshot wounds on me. He hasn't mentioned firearms since.

That would be the winning answer.

 

[Rustytigwire]

Surveys are your best opportunity to deceive the enemy.
I feed them what im full of and they eat it up!

 

[DRNewcomb]

When my doctor ask about guns I told my doctor to screw himself!

I think I'd start talking about my favorite cars and if he ask why, I'd reply that I assumed the medical discussion was over.

 

[Old Navy]

When my doctor ask about guns I told my doctor to screw himself!

I am from Utah. Like Texans, most of us have guns including my doctors.