irishScott
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- Oct 10, 2006
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Making it harder to purchase guns is basically the dictionary definition of gun control. It does not mean that they are in favor of any and all gun control, but they are at a minimum in favor of some additional gun control.
Then we're arguing semantics. But going back to what started this little sub-conversation, I was talking about the "gun control base", by which I mean the gun control equivalent of the Republican or Democrat bases, the die-hard ideologues who typically dominate primaries.
You wouldn't define everyone who votes Republican or Democrat in any given election as part of the base. Most people in those polls would be unaffected by news (if they're even aware in the first place) that the NRA had apologized for something it said about another pro-gun group.