MSNBC Poll

[woundedyak]

Give it a shot! I was surprised by the results considering the host. But I'm sure, 90% of the voters were hot linked from a site like this.

msnbc.com U.S. & World News - How safe do you feel knowing there are people around legally carrying concealed guns?

 

[rjstew317]

you have to read the comments of some of these people, absolutely crazy. on said that only the police should have guns and not citizens, others think that if you carry you can't wait to whip it out and start blowing peoples heads off. i guess since we have the right to carry they have the right to be ignorant.

 

[sgreen3]

Glad to see that 84% are on our side

 

[zibby43]

Vote early, vote often.

 

[BlueEagle]

Yeah, it always shocks me how downright IGNORANT people are when it comes to guns. "The fact that guns exist means that criminals will get ahold of them. They have got to go."

Well alright; you push your magic button that eliminates all guns AND all crime and violence EVERYWHERE in the world, and I will let my guns go without a complaint. But until you make that damn button, good luck getting my guns.

 

[Relatively Ninja]

I feel safer around someone legally carrying a gun than I do around someone that thinks like this: "Oh great, armed macho rednecks in our bars and coffee shops; that's supposed to make me feel safe?"

 

[booey50]

Yeah, it always shocks me how downright IGNORANT people are when it comes to guns. "The fact that guns exist means that criminals will get ahold of them. They have got to go."

Well alright; you push your magic button that eliminates all guns AND all crime and violence EVERYWHERE in the world, and I will let my guns go without a complaint. But until you make that damn button, good luck getting my guns.

I like the way you think....+1

 

[sepe]

I feel safer around someone legally carrying a gun than I do around someone that thinks like this: "Oh great, armed macho rednecks in our bars and coffee shops; that's supposed to make me feel safe?"

Macho rednecks go to coffee shops?

 

[deadsquirrel]

Macho rednecks go to coffee shops?

Maybe the coffee shops that also sell gasoline, beer, and tobacco. Also known as Speedway

 

[sparky241]

im gonna let you in on a secret. i feel safer at an ingo meet than i do in a station full of cops

 

[BlueEagle]

I like the way you think....+1

Why thank you sir.

And Sparky, I don't blame you.

 

[Bond 281]

It continually amazes me that these people are under the impression that a large number of people would just go insane and shoot a bunch of people simply because they have a gun. I'm sick of this mentality of "everyone else is either a complete moron, too stupid to trust or they're a mass murderer in the making." Individuals aren't THAT dumb or unstable.

 

[Octomonkey]

A response to "I carry everywhere i legally can." was:

"I expect increased toddler deaths,mistaken intruders, domestic murders, workplace, racist & paranoid shootings & police in greater danger"

Wow. How many more liberal anti-gun buzzwords can be crammed into that statement?

 

[sepe]

A response to "I carry everywhere i legally can." was:

"I expect increased toddler deaths,mistaken intruders, domestic murders, workplace, racist & paranoid shootings & police in greater danger"

Wow. How many more liberal anti-gun buzzwords can be crammed into that statement?

I can understand the increased toddler deaths but not mistaken intruders, domestic murders, workplace, racist & paranoid shootings or police in greater danger. Sometimes those toddlers just don't listen no matter how hard you shake them.

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

WOW!

A response to "I carry everywhere i legally can." was:

"I expect increased toddler deaths,mistaken intruders, domestic murders, workplace, racist & paranoid shootings & police in greater danger"

Wow. How many more liberal anti-gun buzzwords can be crammed into that statement?

I clicked on the link for the person who made that comment. The rest of her comments on other articles are amazingly "progressive".

If anyone wishes to make themself ill, check it out.

 

[BlueEagle]

The only light at the end of the tunnel for me is that, when this country dissolves into anarchy because of the ****-poor management that is going on now...we'll still be the ones with the guns.

 

[ol' poke]

Do I understand from the URL that this 'survey' started on Mar. 23, 2010?

My, how times change!

(I voted anyway )

ol' poke

 

[thompal]

It continually amazes me that these people are under the impression that a large number of people would just go insane and shoot a bunch of people simply because they have a gun. I'm sick of this mentality of "everyone else is either a complete moron, too stupid to trust or they're a mass murderer in the making." Individuals aren't THAT dumb or unstable.

Those people are merely transferring onto everyone else how they think THEY would react. Those people know that THEY are mentally unstable, immature, and unable to make rational decisions, so they assume that everyone else is just as defective.

 

[OEF5]

I love these two;

"We should put all the gun toting whacko's on an island so they can use each other as target practice"

"All you gun lovers should move to Mexico and see how you like it there"

I've been in a couple of Starbucks while I was OCing, OMG I didn't kill anyone, I guess I disapointed them.

 

[sharkey]

It continually amazes me that these people are under the impression that a large number of people would just go insane and shoot a bunch of people simply because they have a gun. I'm sick of this mentality of "everyone else is either a complete moron, too stupid to trust or they're a mass murderer in the making." Individuals aren't THAT dumb or unstable.

It's simple psychology: they project themselves onto others. They are so emotionally immature that they cannot imagine anyone else being capable of self-control and other adult behaviors.

It's truly sad that these people will not seek help for themselves, nor are they likely to have loved ones do so.