Heffay wrote:Careful what you wish for. If you are suggesting that senators should vote for bills based on what their constituents want, we'd have enhanced background checks right now.
I'm not so sure of this. I'm sure a career politician knows the difference between as BS poll that asks leading or even misrepresented questions from how people would likely react to a concrete piece of legislation. They just don't acknowledge it publicly. Polls often ask highly simplified questions about
what a person thinks of a subject, but they rarely ever go into
how the legislature intends to achieve that goal. There is a very big difference between the two.
My gut tells me that the background checks polls were worded so poorly that damn near everyone who was asked would give the indication that they would support them. Not to actually take the true pulse of the nation, but to have something to sell in the media in order to try to win public opinion. No one wants to be in the 10% that the rest of the country thinks is plain out stupid, so the purpose of these polls was to
change peoples opinion on background checks via peer pressure. Fortunately, enough people saw through it, and yelled from the mountain top that the polls be damned, and that we simply aren't going to allow any unconstitutional restriction of rights, period.
If they
actually thought that 90% of the country supported additional background checks, we'd have them.
