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I can tell you from personal experience that there
are large numbers of gun owners who deplore
military style weapons. I've heard the
following explanations over the years:
1. "No one needs guns like that." (Usually
said by people that regard black guns as "ugly.")
2. "They make gun owners look like kooks."
(Usually said by people that watch TV news a lot.)
3. "Guns like that are only used to kill
people." (Usually said by hunters.)
The notion of "slippery slope" is not one that many
people understand.
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Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 1:35
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Subject: [inbox] Re: Americans Want
President Bush and Congress to Renew the Ban
I would love to see the data. I can readily believe
that much of the non-gunowning public supports such a ban, I find it difficult
that many gun owners do given that there just isn't any signifigant difference
between a military style semi-auto rifle and the semi-auto rifles and shotguns
that millions of gun owners use for hunting and target shooting.
At
10:41 PM 10/4/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Americans Want
President Bush and Congress to Renew the Ban
10/1/2003
Press
Release
Consumer Federation of America
1424 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
www.consumerfed.org
Contact:
Naomi Seligman
Phone:
202-628-7772 ext. 126
New CFA Survey Finds That Consumers Support
Renewing and Strengthening the Federal Assault Weapons Ban
Washington, DC - A new survey released today by Consumer Federation
of America (CFA) found that over a majority of the public supports renewing
the federal assault weapons ban and supports new measures to strengthen the
ban. An important finding of this survey is that a high
percentage of Americans want President Bush to persuade Congress to renew
the ban. Another significant finding is that a majority of gun owners
supports renewing and strengthening the assault weapons ban. Results
of the survey include:
Sixty-two percent said they favored renewing the
ban, including 47 percent who strongly favor its renewal. Just over 50
percent of gun owners support renewing the ban, while two thirds of non-gun
owners do.
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http://www.jointogether.org/gv/news/alerts/reader/0,2061,567042,00.html
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Last year Naomi Seligman was the VPC's
Communications Director
Ron Moore
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