Re: Blow up this gun poll
Polls don't matter, especially unscientific ones like this one. Fox's audience is largely conservative, thus the numbers we want to see. The NY Daily News caters to the other side of the aisle. Both demographically and geographically, they're definitely anti-gun.
The larger picture is that the US Supreme Court has struck down handgun bans in the past couple years. The 2d Amendment is a constitutional issue, which means that most laws will end up in the SC's hands. A split Congress, as currently exists, won't pass any national gun legislation. You'd have to get it through both houses of Congress. With the House Repub, it won't pass there. The Senate has enough pro-gun Dems that it likely wouldn't pass there either. The one issue we have to be concerned about is another assault weapons/hi-cap magazine ban. Plan your purchases accordingly.