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<snip> "This report primarily utilizes data from 1) the 2001 National Gun Policy Survey (NGPS-01), 2) the 1999 National Gun Policy Survey (NGPS-99), 3) the 1998 National Gun Policy Survey (NGPS-98), 4) the 1997-98 National Gun Policy Survey (NGPS-97), 5) the 1996 National Gun Policy Survey (NGPS-96), and 6) the 1972-2000 General Social Survey (GSS) conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. The NGPSs were designed by NORC in collaboration with the Center for Gun Policy and Research of Johns Hopkins University with funding from the Joyce Foundation of Chicago. " <snip> Basically what this says is that the survey was developed in conjuntion with the folks at John Hopkins University(oh yeah, that's a real gun grabber's paradise:eyes:) with funding provided by the Joyce foundation. In other words, the Joyce Foundation provided money to develop a survey, however they had no input into what the survey said. The Joyce Foundation provided NO data. 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Now are you going to sit there and tell me that all of these sources and references are also "gun grabbers" and biased? Are you simply going to condemn a well respected research institute simply because they take money from the Joyce Foundation in order to develop a survey. Gee, don't you think people have a right to charge money for their services? Are you going to deny the NORC's objectivity in this and other matters? Are you really that desperate? I think that if you checked out their survey(after Table 1) you would find that it is by far and away an objective survey. But heaven forbid, the Joyce Foundation funded this survey's development! Horrors!
As far as the link that you wished for, here: <http://www.mppgv.org/polls/poll-section1.html> And yes, before you get your panties in a wad, it was a poll commissioned by the Michigan Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence. However, before you scream bloody murder, look at their methodology(or if you don't understand it, have someone with a stat degree look for you). You will find their demographics sound, their methodology accepted, and their performance(after all, this poll was performed by a third party, the analysis firm EPIC-MRA) objective. If you can't accept this, then I feel you are being too subjective yourself.
Speaking of which, I notice that you haven't brought anything AT ALL to refute my assertions. You simply keep attacking(futilely) the messenger. Why is that? Could it be because you have nothing to back your own self up?:shrug: I would be happy to see anything you have to back your position up, but like most gunnies you seem to be long on hyperbole, yet short on facts.
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