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<blockquote data-quote="YukonGlocker" data-source="post: 3001889" data-attributes="member: 425"><p>I don't think "gun violence" is a problematic term, and I do think there is gun violence. It's generally understood as violence in which a gun is involved. If this were a problem, there would likely be more difference between gun-owners and non-gun-owners on this question, and actually I'm surprised there isn't more difference.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The question doesn't assume or premise anything about how new laws would affect illegal guns. It asks how access of illegal guns affects gun violence...interestingly, non-gun-owners agree with gun-owners on this question (which means non-gun-owners aren't making the assumptions you mention any different than gun-owners are).</p><p></p><p></p><p>Where is the evidence that demonstrates that "the majority of people responding have no accurate knowledge about existing gun laws"?...did they assess this in the study? Do you mean "stricter" (instead of strengthened)?...if yes, it doesn't goad them to answer yes...quite the contrary given that only one of three responses is "more strict", the other two being "about right" or "less strict". Droves of psychometrics studies dig into leading questions (which is what you're getting at). Another way to ask the question would be "What do you think about gun laws?", with 'they should be more strict', 'they are about right', and 'they should be less strict'. This seems like it's less leading, but in fact it isn't...you'd get very close to the same answer.</p><p></p><p>The "mentally ill" question is fine if anyone was curious if gun-owners might disagree with non-gun-owners about the issue...turns out they totally agree on the issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="YukonGlocker, post: 3001889, member: 425"] I don't think "gun violence" is a problematic term, and I do think there is gun violence. It's generally understood as violence in which a gun is involved. If this were a problem, there would likely be more difference between gun-owners and non-gun-owners on this question, and actually I'm surprised there isn't more difference. The question doesn't assume or premise anything about how new laws would affect illegal guns. It asks how access of illegal guns affects gun violence...interestingly, non-gun-owners agree with gun-owners on this question (which means non-gun-owners aren't making the assumptions you mention any different than gun-owners are). Where is the evidence that demonstrates that "the majority of people responding have no accurate knowledge about existing gun laws"?...did they assess this in the study? Do you mean "stricter" (instead of strengthened)?...if yes, it doesn't goad them to answer yes...quite the contrary given that only one of three responses is "more strict", the other two being "about right" or "less strict". Droves of psychometrics studies dig into leading questions (which is what you're getting at). Another way to ask the question would be "What do you think about gun laws?", with 'they should be more strict', 'they are about right', and 'they should be less strict'. This seems like it's less leading, but in fact it isn't...you'd get very close to the same answer. The "mentally ill" question is fine if anyone was curious if gun-owners might disagree with non-gun-owners about the issue...turns out they totally agree on the issue. [/QUOTE]
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