And the Right Wing wonders why I rapidly lose respect for them...

[speaks]

I just got push polled... The SINGLE question the NRA wanted me to answer?

"Do you want 3rd World Dictators influencing our gun ownership policies" NO RLY!

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[speaks]

You'd have had to write one in.

Is your plan to threadshit, because you are aware this sort of push-polling is indefensible?

I've actually called the NRA saying 'If you didn't promulgate this poll, you need to get it out that you did not. If you did, you need to stop!'

I'm not ruling out the possibility that this is actually a left wing group trying to make the NRA look bad.

This poll has apparently been pushed since 2009

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/27/773400/-Bizarre-push-poll-from-the-NRA

http://www.undispatch.com/node/9127

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/nra-call-should-third-world-dictators----and-hillary-clinton----dictate-our-gun-rights.php

[kingfrog]

Yeah - I rank this right up with "49,000,000 Americans struggle with hunger."

All sides are making ridiculous claims and asking stupid questions in an attempt to get the morons (i.e. the vast majority of the population) to vote for them.

[ladyapple27]

For once, I agree with you.

[kingfrog]

It had to happen eventually! :)

Of course, posting on Speaks' LJ brings out the "nuke-em-till-they-glow" in me. I'm more pragmatic in person; in cyberspace, I can engage in philosophical debate without worrying that anyone is actually going to go try something based on what I said. :)

[logiphage]

Presumably they are alluding to CIFTA and the UN Small Arms Treaty

The question doesn't contain enough information for the uninformed, but it's not asking a meaningless question.

So if called I would answer unhesitatingly 'No, I do not want 3rd World dictators or 1st world politicians undermining civil liberties.'

[kingfrog]

I'm with you...and I'll throw in the second world, though the number of countries in it has dwindled drastically over the past thirty years!

[stickmaker]

I get this sort of thing from both the right and the left. Which is why I consider myself a moderate.

[ladyapple27]

I'm tired of all this foolishness. I'd like to see a lot less trickery and a lot more responsibility.

[kingfrog]

So true. Sad that it will probably not happen in our lifetimes.