would you support a constitutional amendment to ban handguns?

[CARLHAYDEN]

You really must be ignorant.

Sometime look at the murder rate among the various racial groups in the United States, then use the racial percentages of Canada.  If the United States had the same racial percentages as Canada, we would have a murder rate of about the same (look at the murder rates in the Dakotas for example)

Here is the racial breakdown of Seattle:

White 73.49%
Asian 13.12%
Black 8.44%
Native American 1.00%
Pacific Islander 0.50%
Other 2.38%
Multiple 4.46%

Here is the racial breakdown of Toronto:

White 57.2%
Asian 29.0%
    Chinese 10.6%
    South Asian 10.3%
    Filipino 3.5%
    West Asian 1.5%
    Southeast Asian 1.4%
    Korean 1.2%
    Japanese 0.5%
Black 8.3%
Hispanic 2.2%
Arab 0.9%
Other 1.5%

They look pretty similar, right?  Toronto just has more Asians.  So this would likely give Toronto a similar homicide rate to Seattle, right?

HOMICIDE RATE PER 100,000
Seattle - 5.9
Toronto - 1.8

Whoops.

Whoops is right.

You played a number of games with your demographic data.

First what percentage of Seattle's population is "hispanic"?  You furnished the data for Toronto but omitted it for Seattle.  I wonder why?

Second, murder rates among asians groups are lower than among white groups, and curiously Toronto has a higher percentage of asian groups than Seattle.

Three, just as you have a MOE in political surveys, so you have statistically insignificant variations as total populations decrease.  If you were to compare California with Canada you would get a more accurate view.

[7,052,770]

My respect that WalterMitty lost over something baseball-related (I can't remember what it was now) has been regained and then some.

WalterMitty is a true freedom fighter for this excellent and necessary idea.

[MasterJedi]

My respect that WalterMitty lost over something baseball-related (I can't remember what it was now) has been regained and then some.

WalterMitty is a true freedom fighter for this excellent and necessary idea.

And this shall hurt you greatly if you ever try and go into politics.

[°Leprechaun]

groupthink

[John Dibble]

groupthink

I don't think so - I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people had formulated the yes or no before they even saw the poll results.

[MasterJedi]

groupthink

Stop talking.

[Speed of Sound]

Damn, my view isnt very popular here.

[adam]

Nope. I believe in that stupid thing called the constitution.

It is the 2ND ammendment for a reason ya know.

[KillerPollo]

People who want gun control are retards

Yeah! true that!

But i want to carry a sword in public too!

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

People who want gun control are retards

Yeah! true that!

But i want to carry a sword in public too!

I'd legalize carrying that too.

[7,052,770]

My respect that WalterMitty lost over something baseball-related (I can't remember what it was now) has been regained and then some.

WalterMitty is a true freedom fighter for this excellent and necessary idea.

And this shall hurt you greatly if you ever try and go into politics.

I'd never run on my real views....I'd be a killer candidate in fact, a Southern populist...

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

My respect that WalterMitty lost over something baseball-related (I can't remember what it was now) has been regained and then some.

WalterMitty is a true freedom fighter for this excellent and necessary idea.

And this shall hurt you greatly if you ever try and go into politics.

I'd never run on my real views....I'd be a killer candidate in fact, a Southern populist...

Ah so you're another person who'd be a stealth candidate?

[John Dibble]

My respect that WalterMitty lost over something baseball-related (I can't remember what it was now) has been regained and then some.

WalterMitty is a true freedom fighter for this excellent and necessary idea.

And this shall hurt you greatly if you ever try and go into politics.

I'd never run on my real views....I'd be a killer candidate in fact, a Southern populist...

So you would want to be like every other lying, hypocritical, corrupt politician who ever was?

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

My respect that WalterMitty lost over something baseball-related (I can't remember what it was now) has been regained and then some.

WalterMitty is a true freedom fighter for this excellent and necessary idea.

And this shall hurt you greatly if you ever try and go into politics.

I'd never run on my real views....I'd be a killer candidate in fact, a Southern populist...

So you would want to be like every other lying, hypocritical, corrupt politician who ever was?

Yep. I'd manipulate my way into power.

[Gabu]

My respect that WalterMitty lost over something baseball-related (I can't remember what it was now) has been regained and then some.

WalterMitty is a true freedom fighter for this excellent and necessary idea.

And this shall hurt you greatly if you ever try and go into politics.

I'd never run on my real views....I'd be a killer candidate in fact, a Southern populist...

Why would you want to be a politician if you could never, ever put any of your actual views into action?

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

My respect that WalterMitty lost over something baseball-related (I can't remember what it was now) has been regained and then some.

WalterMitty is a true freedom fighter for this excellent and necessary idea.

And this shall hurt you greatly if you ever try and go into politics.

I'd never run on my real views....I'd be a killer candidate in fact, a Southern populist...

Why would you want to be a politician if you could never, ever put any of your actual views into action?

He'd just RUN on a populist ticket. not govern as a populist.

[Gabu]

He'd just RUN on a populist ticket. not govern as a populist.

So he'd have one single term during which he would incite the outrage of his constituents, do damage to his party, and leave intensely unpopular?

Er, whatever bloats your boat, I guess.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

He'd just RUN on a populist ticket. not govern as a populist.

So he'd have one single term during which he would incite the outrage of his constituents, do damage to his party, and leave intensely unpopular?

Er, whatever bloats your boat, I guess.

Actually by the end of my term congress would likely be castrated and any influence/power over me the public had would be removed.

[7,052,770]

actually my actual goal is to run for the MS legislature and then be liberal when I get there.  We could use a dose of liberalism in our legislature...