Howey Poll - 83% of Hoosiers Support Background Checks

[Classic]

Just wondering if anyone else heard about this poll. I am not a subscriber to the Howey website but I am wondering who was polled and what the specific questions were. Any subscribers out there or anyone with any info?

 

[K_W]

Current background checks or expanded background checks?

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Yeah, right, that is why the General Assembly did away with Indiana's UBC in 1997.

If you believe 83% I have a bridge across the Wabash to sell ya.

 

[Hammerhead]

Yeah, right, that is why the General Assembly did away with Indiana's UBC in 1997.

If you believe 83% I have a bridge across the Wabash to sell ya.

The Brown St. Bridge?

 

[Classic]

I sure don't believe it but it is getting a lot of play. It is on the WTHR webpage and they had this Howey guy on WIBC earlier this eve. His allegation was that Coats totally missed what "Hoosiers" want when he voted against the UBC bill. I would just like to know who he polled and how the question was asked.

 

[1911Shooter]

I'm going to guess he polled everyone at the anti 2A rallies around the state. That's the only way he got those numbers.

 

[ModernGunner]

Howey's a moron.

'Nuff said.

 

[danmdevries]

I'd just once like to see this presented factually. We have "background checks" in the form of nics. I've heard people at work and read online news comments, people think there is nothing in place at present, that anybody can buy a gun, no checks or restrictions. Others think its only for new guns, that there's no nics for used.

Someone at work wouldn't believe me when I explained this to her. She insisted that there's no check ever. Finally conceded that it was in place at a storefront but insisted you can just buy online or gun show without it getting called in.

 

[AtTheMurph]

I'd just once like to see this presented factually. We have "background checks" in the form of nics. I've heard people at work and read online news comments, people think there is nothing in place at present, that anybody can buy a gun, no checks or restrictions. Others think its only for new guns, that there's no nics for used.

Someone at work wouldn't believe me when I explained this to her. She insisted that there's no check ever. Finally conceded that it was in place at a storefront but insisted you can just buy online or gun show without it getting called in.

This fantasy of how people believe the system works has been create by the gun grabbers. They imply that anyone can buy a gun with no background checks. They repeat over and over this BS "gun show loophole" lie to incite people and create fear.

Your experience with this woman would be the same with 70% of people you speak with.

 

[starbreather]

83% of the 17 people polled...

 

[24Carat]

Looks like the poll was conducted in the conservative bastion of Nashville, IN ??

 

[EOD Guy]

Wasn't it Hitler who said if you repeat a lie enough times, the masses will digest it as truth?

 

[Foxxwoof]

Current background checks or expanded background checks?

Came to say this..

 

[Hoosier8]

Expanded background checks. 600 people polled and I bet they count the somewhat strongly with the strongly support.

http://953mnc.com/Admin/ArticleView...cal-Poll-tests-hot-button-Hoosier-issues.aspx

The poll also showed that 83% support the expanded gun background check legislation that
was recently defeated in the U.S. Senate.

The poll of 600 registered voters was conducted April 18 through 21 by Bellwether Research
pollster Christine Matthews. It has a +/- error rate of 4% and canvassed 69% of respondents on
land telephone lines and 31% on cell phones. The poll included 87% white, 8% African-
American and 1% Latino voters. On party affiliation, 33% identified as Republican, 24%
Democrat and 21% independent.

 

[MAJB Retired]

probably was a survey of the democratic legislators from Indiana

 

[buckstopshere]

I'm tired of hearing about any percentage of support. 90%, 83%, 2%....

We are supposed to be a constitutional republic. It doesn't matter how popular or unpopular a right is, it's still a right. One that has been granted by the creator, not the .gov