CNN pole on Assault Weapons Ban

[Chad]

CNN is conducting a poll to with regards to LIFTING (good) or EXTENDING (bad) the so-called Assault Weapons ban. You can go to the link below to cast your vote:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/05/....ap/index.html

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[chuter]

The good guys are winning! 54% for lifting the ban when I voted.

[Chuck Irby]

I just voted and it was up to 56 percent for lifting the ban. I think there should be a law that every home and business owner should have to own at least one assault weapon, be proficient with it and have to keep it loaded and close by. That would prevent a lot of crime.

[Heron]

Yeah right, like on all war zones with all the hardware people still commiting crimes.
You guys are something . . .assault weapons!
A good Glock will drop most bad guys.
Heron

[Chuck Irby]

Okay, Heron. You made your point . . . . but at least some decent firearm. My main thinking is that anyone, other than felons, should have the right to own whatever kind of weapon they want to own.

[Heron]

They just passed very strict laws in Brazil and it was already hard.
I do not like it, but the one side they can control is our side, than averyone carrying a weapon will be a bad guy. Exception for sport guns with permit.
The police does not go to the shanti towns anymore, to much heavy stuff (AK's Uzi's ect)
Some pockets in Rio are really messed up and the army is taking control.
to bad for all
Heron

[Chuck Irby]

THat sounds like a sad situation, Heron. There are a couple of towns in the U. S. where owning guns is mandatory for the citizens. They have no crime.

[RayPierce]

Robert A. Heinlein wrote that an armed society is a polite society.

Think about it.

Chuck one of the towns that you speak of is Kennesaw, Georgia.
They got tired of the spill over crime from the Atlanta area.

They did in fact "nip it in the bud" so to speak. Crime fell 94%.
It looks like we could learn from that.

[Chuck Irby]

Thanx for that info Ray. I agree with you, in that we should be able to learn from that. I wonder why CNN is taking the poll. Did you vote?

[Dean_Dolph]

I guess gun control is just about the most emotional issue there is in the U.S. And while for the most part I don't care one way or the other; I will play devil's advocate for the gun control folks that will be intimidated by those of you that so passionately support your right to have guns. And why wouldn't they be intimidated, you people have guns!

Both groups can spout statistics with the best of them to support their views. I suspect both groups are right and both are wrong. So, I don't want to hear anything about statistics. And when I'm finished here, I'm finished with this subject. I do believe that the 2nd amendment is being misinterpreted by those of you that support the right to own a gun but since I'm not a constitutional lawyer, anything I believe is just that, a belief.

I ain't scared of nothin' and real men don't need no stinkin' gun for defense; of course at my age it doesn't really matter! I sleep so sound, deaf you know, (and a clear conscience!) that if anyone breaks in I just hope they don't disturb me, take what they want and leave quietly. I feel I'm more at risk in driving the Texas roads than of someone attacking me in my home. Then again if I irritate one of these cowboy drivers I might get shot. Road rage here is not unusual.

In the end I support all of you that believe in owning a gun. What I'm waiting for is someone to propose limiting the sale of ammunition! I do wonder why anyone needs an assault rifle when the Glock that Heron mentioned should do the job.

Somewhere along the line this thread should draw Dave DeWinter out.

How did I do, gun control folks, do you think I'm going to get shot at for presenting your side?

[Heron]

I was shot twice by robbers: 1974 in brasil took a .22 in the chin, 1991 in Fort Lauderdale broad day light, 11 am in front Lauderhil Mall by a smoked up Jamaican
I love guns , have some, lots of books and hunting weapons.
The only way to control is starting for those who listen and have brains to understand.
I wish the survey showed what happened in those cities. Accidents, how many bad guys shot etc.
An armed society is an uneducated one, china has some samples of both situations.
Men are croocked, some are not.
Send some of our gun toting down to Rio and see what happens . . .
Maybe one day we can hunt again and own guns just for their beauty.
Heron

[ahancock]

Here in Kansas city Kansas, at the time the assault weapon ban was proposed, we had only had one homicide by assault rifle in the past 10 years. During that time, we had two homicides where the weapon was a large rock. I suggested that we should ban rocks rather than assault rifles. However, since Clintin told everyone how good the assault weapons were, the SKS and AK47 have become the favorite drive by weapons.
Alan

[Dewie]

LISTEN YOU BLOKES THIS IS A ROTOR CRAFT FORUM NOT A GUN FORUM!!!
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[gyromike]

Originally Posted by Dewie

LISTEN YOU BLOKES THIS IS A ROTOR CRAFT FORUM NOT A GUN FORUM!!!

Dewey,

This post is in the Off Topic Section.
You don't have to read it.

Do what I usually do. Skip it.

[GyroRon]

that is cause Mike is usually over at www.dunkinsworld.com watching some free porn. Why read a stupid gun thread over porn? lol

Mike whats been up lately?