Gun Poll Open Till 7:00PM

**ABuck** · April 22nd, 2009, 07:02 PM

Just home in time to hit it.

TODAY'S QUESTION: Would stricter gun laws curb shootings? (Poll closes Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.)

YES (408 responses)

15.0%

NO (2308 responses)

85.0%

2716 total responses (Results not scientific)

This poll is closed to voting.

**Sandcut** · April 22nd, 2009, 07:06 PM

Caught it under the wire! 6:58.

I noticed the link to the article on the 2A Rally about mid-page. Pennsy and family represented themselves well. Kudos to your daughter!

I also noticed the irony of the lead story on the page being a story of a homicide that occurred WITHOUT a gun. I actually didn't see ANY stories of gun violence while scanning all the stories.

**Nomad** · April 22nd, 2009, 11:37 PM

My guess is that they do controversial polls on their website so they get more hits and it is easier to sell advertising. I wouldn't be surprised to see polls on smoking, abortion, illegal immigration, anything to get people to come to their website. Now, don't get me wrong, I love to see the anti-gun folks take a hit on these polls and I always add my vote to these types of polls. But I think they are as much about generating traffic for the newspaper website as anything.