Typically they mean whatever someone wanted them to mean when they started the poll.  Right?

Most recently the news and politicians discussed that 90% of Americans wanted universal registrations.  So that is what the media slams across the stations and papers.  But really the poll this comes from asked whether people wanted required background checks for all gun buyers with nothing about mental health additions or the other things stuffed into the proposed bill(s).  Really it was 91% and of course they also fail to mention the scope being about 1700 people across a handful of states.  According to my trusty microsoft windows calculator, that really means 91% of .00055% of Americans supported background checks for all gun buyers.  No matter how enthusiastic you are about those stats… they in no way mean 90% of all Americans.

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So, meandering about the web tonight.  Maybe got a little lost.  Kind of like when you go to YouTube and click on a toddler laughing and before you know it, your additional clicks on “similar/suggested” videos have you staring at your screen with your mouth open… watching something that is probably illegal in the majority of states.

Anyways, I saw facebook shows bing search results  You showed google what’s up, facebook,  now g+ will never have a chance… oh wait.  Anyways… I noticed a firearms company ad to the right of the bing results.  Looking back I realize this was probably shown by facebook and not bing.  But I got curious if the M$ Bing policy was anti-gun along with google.  Sure enough, I found their bingads (adwords equivalent) policy and what do I see…

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