Quote Originally Posted by alxone View Post
so who and where are these 90% of americans that support obamas new gun laws ?

My understanding is that they are getting the 90% number from the poll conducted by Quinnipiac University. The polled sample was diverse in terms of geography and urban/rural (although they don't specify what the distribution was). The sample size was 1722 people.

Q38 asks if you agree with requiring background checks for all gun buyers. 92% agreed

Q35 asks if you support stricter gun control laws, and only 52% agreed.

Either way, I don't honestly know if 90% of Americans support stricter gun control or not, but suspect that such a small sample group might not translate well when the official American polulation is 313,914,040. (representing .00000549% of the population.




http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes...ReleaseID=1847
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html