LA Times poll

[ColeK]

Just voted!!!

55% NO
45% Yes

 

[XGibsonX]

Voted.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

maybe worth noting in the OP that we want a NO vote on this poll.

 

[cyclopsshooter]

done

 

[Checkman]

Voted.

 

[fatcat4620]

Keep it up guys!

 

[Texan Scott]

Voted, but also signed up and expressed my views.

Texan Scott

The author opines "If we can't draw a sensible line on guns, we may as well call the American experiment in democracy a failure."

I say NO. American democracy was founded on the premise that every individual citizen has inalienable rights which are not granted by the government and may not be taken away by it either.

Somewhere along the way, many people seem to have aquiesced to the odd idea that democracy means the government doing ANYTHING the popular majority wants at the moment.

THIS IS FALSE. Our Founders went to great pains to explain in writing, and binding as the highest law of the land, what our government IS NOT ALLOWED TO DO.

One of the things they feared most was abuse of power by those trusted with it, and so they EXPRESSLY FORBADE the government to infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms - because the power of the people to say NO to those who would abuse their liberties must never be taken away from them. This right really is necessary to the security of a free state.

The deaths of so many schoolchildren is agonizingly heartbreaking, but allowing "liberals" - whose agenda has nothing to do with personal liberty - to use our grief at the actions of one mentally unstable criminal as a pretext to strip away legal rights of 80 million peacable, law-abiding American citizens and gun owners WOULD be a failure of democracy.

 

[iLikeOldgunsIlikeNewGuns]

Another vote here

 

[Romeo 33 Delta]

Check!

 

[Bobk538447]

Done

 

[BRHbar]

Giddy-up, Done!

 

[garyr]

Voted. Yikes. Getting ugly, and bound to get much uglier.

 

[Mr.510]

Excellent comment Texan Scott!

Still at 55/45 in our favor.

Everyone please vote on this one!

 

[fehhkk]

1up for the good guys! Lol

 

[TennJed]

voted, still 55/45 us

 

[Crash_Test_Dhimmi]

Dont forget to log in to the comments section and educate the DGIs

 

[mgmorden]

Voted. Particularly worrisome is that this article is advocating a retroactive ban - as in turn in all your AR's and mags over 10 rounds to be destroyed.

 

[84B20]

Done. I used to live there also. I will never visit that state again until the 2nd Amendment is re-established there.

 

[Cesiumsponge]

Ah, magazine capacity limits. So I spend an extra 2 seconds to work through three 10-round magazines with two reloads instead of a single 30 round magazine.

Great argument.

 

[KTXdm9]

Voted. I'm guessing this isn't the result the LA Times wanted.

 

[SECGUY]

done

 

[cjett]

Done

 

[skeeziks]

I just voted....

Yes: 46
No: 54

 

[SilentScream]

Voted, Honestly I'm surprised this poll is up, usually when the results aren't to their liking it comes down quick.

 

[jmace57]

me too! voted