The headline to this story is mistitled. It should instead read “Most Americans Ignorant Of The Facts About Bullet ‘Fingerprinting’.”

It says that most Americans believe that bullet fingerprinting would solve the shooting spree in Tidewater country.

So what? What are we to make of this? What is the point? Scientific subjects, and matters of fact, are not fit topics for opinion polls. The public, in its hysteria and lack of knowlege, may have such an opinion, but there’s no basis for it, and it shouldn’t be used as a basis for public policy.