Gun Control vs Gun Rights

[Ben]

So I got one of those RNC "questionnaires" that have you check off "what's important to you" and then of course send them some money. I never send them in, but I read the one today.

One of the, "check all the topics important to you" questions included "gun control". When I see "gun control", I don't think of it as an overarching term for all political discussions of guns. I always see it as, if it's important to you, you are probably in favor of it. If the RNC is trying to ask if stopping gun control is important to me, it seems they should be listing it as "gun rights". If I were to have sent it in, I likely would have left "gun control" unchecked, for fear of someone thinking I was in favor of it.

Thoughts? Am I digging to deep, or do you also equate "gun control" with "anti-gun"?

[Hawkmoon]

Thoughts? Am I digging to deep, or do you also equate "gun control" with "anti-gun"?

Yes, absolutely.

[MechAg94]

IMO, it probably is meant as a generic term.  The person who created it is not knowledgeable about gun rights. 

[charby]

To me "gun control" means some sort of "gun confiscation"

If was, we need to improve/update the current background check system to help keep possession of firearms away from people that can not legally possess then, I might listen a bit.

[Ben]

IMO, it probably is meant as a generic term.  The person who created it is not knowledgeable about gun rights. 

This was my thought - the RNC hired a firm to make the form who looked at it as a generic term, and possibly the RNC has a bunch of RINOs who also neither understand the terminology, nor how their base interprets it - which is a bit annoying to me.

[RocketMan]

It's simple, really.  The RINO leadership of the Republican Party favors gun control.  The question was designed to elicit a response that accidentally favors gun control from the general party membership.  By the vague wording of the question, the general membership would have thought they were expressing concern about additional gun control measures being enacted.

[HankB]

Even polls from what is nominally (supposedly?) people on "our" side can be slanted. For example, "Do you support an honest, patriotic, Republican majority in the Congress, or would you rather have the pinko commie spawn of  Satan Democrats in control?"

[brimic]

Being soft of new gun control is a bone the RNC reluctantly throws out to keep a large percentage of their constituents from leaving.

[RoadKingLarry]

Even polls from what is nominally (supposedly?) people on "our" side can be slanted. For example, "Do you support an honest, patriotic, Republican majority in the Congress, or would you rather have the pinko commie spawn of  Satan Democrats in control?"

I fail to see any political slant in that question.
 
I just don't think there are enough (any?) honest, patriotic Republicans to get a majority.