Headline: Florida Shooting: 50 Percent of Americans Now Want Nationwide Ban on Assault Weapons, Poll Shows

From Newsweek

(above the text of the article was an autoplay video of a teenage Sinéad O'Connor impersonator yelling about the president)

Half of Americans would back a nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons, a new poll shows, with the majority of respondents also stating President Donald Trump is not doing enough to prevent mass shootings.

No, half of 808 the Americans in your poll, taken just after a tragedy would ban something called "assault weapons", without even knowing what they are, and these are not just any Americans, they are they type who answer telephone surveys, in 2018.

The Washington Post/ABC News poll was conducted following the deadly mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, which left at least 17 people dead and others injured.
Of the 808 adults surveyed from February 15 to 18, 62 percent of people do not think the president is doing enough to prevent mass shootings, with 77 percent believing Congress is not doing enough to tackle the problem.

One wonders what they expect them to do exactly, these people who answer telephone polls. Trump hasn't opened fire on 5th Avenue as far as I know. Trump didn't make the FBI incompetent and/or malicious.

And, in a result that demonstrates the country’s divide on gun control issues, 50 percent of Americans polled said they would support a total ban on the sale of assault weapons; with 71 percent of Democrats and 29 percent of Republicans backing a ban.

Indeed about half of Americans generally favor more gun control while the other half favor less. That is pretty consistent, about half of Americans are of below average intelligence. Note that there is a 50/50 split among Americans ever after the media has promoted one side to the best of their ability. Also they forgot to mention the +/-4% margin of error, maybe only 46% of Americans favor that.

But despite the significant support for a ban on assault weapons sales, the majority of people (57 percent) identified mass shootings as a reflection of the problems in identifying and treating mental health problems, while just 28 percent believed mass shootings were a reflection of inadequate gun control laws.

Whoa! Talk about burying the lead, where are the calls for action on that? This is good, it lets me know that this current distraction will fail like so many others before it. Maybe congress can get in gear with national reciprocity.

(The Original article included a heart-rending picture of a teacher's funeral)

Following the Florida school shooting, Trump has faced calls by survivors of the massacre to take a stand on gun control, with "a number of student" activists demanding that politicians take action rather than sending “thoughts and prayers.”

"a number of" this is how they imply that somehow this is a grass roots effort with wide, if not universal, support. One is a number, two is a number. And of course by "take action" they mean a gun ban, but they don't say that. Who could disagree with taking action right? Like when they had their last brain dead martyr call to "dooo something".

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In a moving address at a gathering to remember those who had lost their lives in the attack, high school senior Emma Gonzalez addressed the reticence of politicians who had received donations from the NRA to impose tougher gun control laws.
“If the president wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a 'terrible tragedy' and how it should never have happened and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, I'm going to happily ask him how much money he received from the NRA,” she said in her Saturday speech.

They played this clip above, I guess somehow it was essential to include that clip and also a transcript of what one grief stricken child said in this story about a poll. A poll that shows that most Americans have caught on that all these shooters seem to be on psychiatric drugs that "May cause suicidal thoughts or actions" a warning guns are not required to come with.

What do you think they are trying to distract us from?

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