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No, it's real popular at the seat of Obama tyranny.
BTW, have a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Fuck you, I hope your year is as shitty as you deserve, you hate filled, bigoted cunt.
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To be fair, we hunt quite a bit. Which I think people forget. And I know I hunt because factory farmers can go fuck themselves. You don't need to torture something for it to be delicious. Too many people who don't live inside gun culture think that it's all about wanting to shoot humans. That redneck defending their property. Dolly Parton with a shotgun in "Best Little Whorehouse". They don't think about the price of food in those areas and how the "dirt poor" are affected by that. If you don't have the ability to hunt you can very realistically be deprived of food. Most people supplement with gardening and hunting. It's just a fact of life that in very poor, rural areas, that's a survival mechanism.
Is it perfect? Of course not. We've got five year olds accidentally shooting themselves. And we have a public that is very ill-informed about gun control regulations, easily swayed by terms like, "semi-automatic" (which literally means nothing). We also have a huge market of collectors who own firearms that they will never actually shoot, because of the collector's value. There are far more nuances to the issue than your throw-away line implies. Yes, we are stupid rednecks, and I'm not denying that, but there is a legitimate practical and cultural significance to gun culture. It isn't all bucktooth drug addicts shooting each other over meth.
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That's better.
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Suit yourself, my efforts are aimed at the more intellectually developed strata of American life.
You might want to adjust your sights then.
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*LMAO*
So you've had you card pulled on your opening post, AGAIN, and your response is "So what if it's a bogus survey?"
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What is the membership of the NRA?
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About 4.5 million give or take as of Feb 2013.
Kind of makes that 250K look sort of puny huh?
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Suit yourself, my efforts are aimed at the more intellectually developed strata of American life.
On Literotica you miss your target. The people here who agree with you are ignorant ideologues. Some have difficulty writing complete sentences.
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Guns are disgusting. People who love guns are disgusting. I want the government to punish them by confiscating their guns. 
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A survey source, sample size, and methodology is key if one disagrees with the results.
A survey source, sample size and methodology is inconsequential if one agrees with it.
The trend of all surveys lately on gun control shows that Americans are not swayed by Bloomberg's millions. The only people that favor it are in large cities in blue states.
A survey source, sample size and methodology is inconsequential if one agrees with it.
The trend of all surveys lately on gun control shows that Americans are not swayed by Bloomberg's millions. The only people that favor it are in large cities in blue states.
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I wouldn't say that. I oppose gun control and I have no difficulty in writing complete sentences. I'm also not an ideologue, but I can't say the same for you.
BTW, 250,000 is an extremely big sample.
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Guns are disgusting. People who love guns are disgusting. I want the government to punish them by confiscating their guns.
Explain please..
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Guns are disgusting. People who love guns are disgusting. I want the government to punish them by confiscating their guns.
Can we start that process with warrant-less searches of everyone that has been convicted of a felony, and all of their known associates first?
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But it is NOT a sample. It is 250,000 people who support the site.
To be statistically valid a sample has to be randomly selected by specified criteria and the survey must be balanced.
This is NOT random and NOT balanced, so statistically it is useless. Socially it might be interesting, but it ain't scientific.
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It is a self selecting population which skews but does not completel invalidate the fndings.
Since this is available to anyone regardless of their leanings it is only invalid in the sense it skews towards people on the Internet obviously, prone to taking quizzes and like that.
Not the same at all as say an opinion pol on Lit where we already know the tilt is left. Or, say Fox that skews right, or MSNBC that skews left. People that volunteer to answer questions are admittedly a strange lot, but that in and of it self doesn't mean they aren't people and 250,000 is a lot of them.
Depending on where the referrals are coming from that could be a problem here, but we don't have an reason to think that it is anything but people of all persuasions wandering in and volunteering their opinion on a wide variety of issues.
No different than setting up a booth in a mall and taking all interested comers who have an interest in taking a survey.
The results track what you would expect, so I tend to think working backwards from the results the likelihood is that the sample happens to be sufficiently random. Admittedly not random according to any scientific method, just entropy at work.
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