NEW Census-Do you own guns ?? How many?

[everallm]

So why doesn't the government just send them out and let you answer the questions and then mail it back. Or, they could let you fill out the form on line and submit it that way. Why do we need to have warm bodies come to our neighborhoods to personally ask the questions? How much does that cost vs. the costs to mail out the forms or post an online form? Maybe the census takers are being employed in "shovel ready" jobs.

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/about_2010_census/index.html

How
The Census Bureau will mail or deliver questionnaires to your house in March 2010. We will mail a second form to households that do not respond to the initial questionnaire.

Households that still do not respond will be called or visited by a Census worker. (Census workers can be identified by a census badge and bag.)l

Get the form,

Fill it in

Post it back

Individual census takers are not going to be going around for anything other than non returners OR a small statistical sample set to match data gathered via post.

For the ones who say "THEY have no need/right etc to get this info"....All the data they want to gather is in one database or other across all the commercial and governmental spectrum.

Would you prefer to have all those databases linked up so some anonymous entity in government can trawl through your life without oversight or strong data governance controls at will ?

Hey no need for the census.....no need for any privacy....you've nothing to hide have you...?

Do you prefer clunky, kudgey and controlled or neat, tidy and Big Brother

 

[jimmyraythomason]

Once more...

The ONLY census question that one MUST answer is "how MANY people reside at this address?". ANYTHING that one answers beyond that is ELECTIVE. The U.S.Constitution REQUIRES a census(head count) every 10 years.

 

[Jorg Nysgerrig]

The ONLY census question that one MUST answer is "how MANY people reside at this address?". ANYTHING that one answers beyond that is ELECTIVE.

Title 13, Section 221 of the US Code disagrees with you:
Section 221. Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers

(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or
willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any
other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce
or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the
Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his
knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in
connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I,
II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to
the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or
farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not
more than $100.
(b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a)
of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances
described in such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is
false, shall be fined not more than $500.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no person
shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his
religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body.

 

[everallm]

My only real suggestion with a leeeeeeeetle bit of paranoia is to remember to match the information on financials to your tax return.......The census is once a decade, the IRS is for ever.......

 

[Titan6]

Quote:
You can google the census questions and see the form that they are using for 2010 Census, and no, there are no questions regarding firearms on it.

Your takin' all the fun out of it. They asked my cousin ifin' he was married and to how many people and what genders and was their blood relations?

 

[TimRB]

FWIW, we have received the "long form" census questionaire in the last two go-arounds. It asks for information that you wouldn't tell your best friend, so I left many questions unanswered. Both times they sent a census worker out to get the "required" information, and both times I told them to pound sand. No fine yet.

Tim

 

[Hk91-762mm]

You can google the census questions and see the form that they are using for 2010 Census, and no, there are no questions regarding firearms on it.

And we have a winner.
Thanks ===! My friend is a medical professional who very much into RTKBA- ! As I said in the op Its hard to keep everything straight with all the Bull poop info out there.
End of topic !!

 

[Walkalong]

NOTFB.....Period...

Any questions, not just guns.....

 

[jimmyraythomason]

Suggested reading for anyone interested. United States Code Title 13, Sections 5 and 7 in their entirety. Said Code was passed January 8,2008. This is beyond the scope of the United States Constitution as ratified by the states in 1781.

 

[rbernie]

It's been demonstrated as a false rumor - why are we still talking about it?