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Do you vote gun rights? Take the poll

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#1 ·
a simple yes or no
 
#6 ·
You guys happen to read the comments some of these people are posting? I just skimmed the first 2 pages, oddly enough, nearly everyone that voted "yes", are all for getting RID of guns. One person I read even claimed that getting rid of guns would make us safer...WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!? JMO, Josh.
 
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If somehow the gun/firearm/smoke pole was somehow made to have never been invented(so not one fire arm exsitedin the past or now), with the world as it is and always has been otherwise left alone!

Our crime rates would be pretty much what they are today!

IN OTHER WORDS by attacking A tool! NOT the source! We accomplish nothing about crime!

People and Attitudes are the source of crime! Not the TOOLS THEY USE!!!!!!

AL
 
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Depends. This election there are some very serious issues that I will be considering along with the gun rights issue. Unfortunately, neither candidate has been that great on many of our gun right issues. Obama is definately the worst but McCain hasn't always been on our side of these issues either. At this point I'm on the fence along with several of my shooting buddies some who have lost their jobs or a big part of their retirement accounts. Tom
 
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tburry, the jobs have not been lost because of Bush or Republican or Democrat actions. Our economic system over the years has become out of touch with our competition. When we expect to make $35 an hour and we are competing against some dude in who knows where, and he is happy to just make $40 that week, how can we compete? We are in a world economy and technologies are catching us. We no longer have the edge. I believe our next chance to jump ahead in the global market is alternative fuel, but in the meantime we need to maintain our economy and life style by drilling here in the good ole US. Then make the conversion. WE NEED A 25 YEAR PLAN. Neither candidate is even close to a masterplan.
 
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Dove Commander I understand everything you stated and I too would like too see a leader with a plan but I don't see that now and that's why I'm on the fence about the candidates. I wish we had another choice but we don't. I'm not sold on Mc'Cain or Obama or anyone else for that matter. I'm pretty much up to date on the global market, energy problems, job problems, etc. etc. but I don't see either of these candidates with a plan or solving these problems. I'm still listening and watching but I'm not convinced. Sorry. Tom
 
#22 ·
Why trust the politicians who take your guns?
by Ernest Hancock

http://www.libertyforall.net/patrioticus.html

I am often associated with the gun-rights issue but most in the media and public service know that my main interest is freedom.

Between my IRS tax-day protests, lawsuits, campaigns, freedom initiatives, Diamondback rattlesnake barbecues and helping desperate people deal with oppressive governments, there has always been attention to gun rights.

Why is this issue such a touchstone for freedom lovers?

Even politicians who want to be known as "pro-gun" hate having to discuss the issue with reporters or be too specific, even with supporters. They hate it because it is an MRI into their character.

It is a Vulcan mind-meld, as my friend and gun-rights author L. Neil Smith calls the gun issue. It is the ultimate test by which any politician or political philosophy can be evaluated.

If a politician isn't comfortable with any individual being able to walk into a hardware store, pay cash for any firearm without producing identification or signing a single scrap of paper (and that individual being able to carry that protection concealed or open), then that politician does not support freedom.

Gun-control laws only disarm potential victims, thus creating a safe work environment for criminals - kind of like an OSHA for felons. And criminals won't be deterred from getting a weapon because of a law. Criminals don't follow laws. Any attempt to rid the world of a tool that would give my 130-pound wife a fighting chance against a 230-pound man would be immoral.

This test is very revealing about how someone seeking your vote really feels about you. If he doesn't want you to have the means to defend your life, do you want him in a position to control it?

If a politician thinks that the highest law of the land, the Bill of Rights, is nothing more than a guideline for government, do you want to entrust him with anything?

Try it yourself: if a politician won't trust you, why should you trust him?

If he's a man, what does his lack of trust tell you about his real attitude toward women? If "he" happens to be a woman, what makes her so eager to render her fellow women helpless on the mean and seedy streets her policies helped create?

Should you believe politicians who claim they stand for freedom, but drag their feet and make excuses about repealing limits on your right to own and carry weapons? What does this tell you about their real motives, when they ignore voters and ram through legislation actively opposed by a majority of their constituents?

Makes voting simpler, doesn't it? You don't have to study every issue. Just use this X-ray machine, this Vulcan mind-meld, to find out how politicians really feel. About you. That, of course, is why they hate it.

And that's why I'm accused of being a single-issue activist, thinker and voter.

But it isn't true, is it?
 
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