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If you could only stop one gun ban, what would you save?

Poll ended at Mon Jan 21, 2013 8:05 pm

I would accept a semiautomatic rifle ban to save my handguns.
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56%
I would accept a semiautomatic handgun ban to save my rifles.
4
44%
 
Total votes : 9

Handguns or Rifles?

Postby bizarrenormality » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:05 pm

Anyone who has been reading gun forums for more than a week knows there are many proposals being floated to ban different kinds of guns. With multiple proposals on the table, there's opportunity for a Senator or Representative to vote against one gun ban and for another, saying they already voted against banning _______ guns!

Knowing all that, and remembering how the Republicans saved Obama from the fiscal cliff, if you could guarantee one and only one type of semiautomatic firearm escapes the ban this year, which would you choose? Please don't say we can derail every proposed ban, or we should try to save all guns or none. That's not the purpose of this poll or thread. I want to know Texas gun owners' priority ranking between keeping their semiautomatic handguns and keeping their semiautomatic rifles.

The poll will run until the inauguration.
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Re: Handguns or Rifles?

Postby Texas Dan Mosby » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:13 pm

Neither is acceptable.
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Re: Handguns or Rifles?

Postby suthdj » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:14 pm

Texas Dan Mosby wrote:Neither is acceptable.

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Re: Handguns or Rifles?

Postby A-R » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:22 pm

suthdj wrote:
Texas Dan Mosby wrote:Neither is acceptable.

+1
:iagree:


Yep
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:iagree:

sorry, realize this answer doesn't fit OP's parameters but under no circumstances am I willing to trade one type of gun for another. There is no "trade" to be had. They cannot have ANY of them. Period.

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Re: Handguns or Rifles?

Postby DocV » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:29 pm

No and no. Never and never.
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Re: Handguns or Rifles?

Postby baldeagle » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:33 pm

DocV wrote:No and no. Never and never.

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Re: Handguns or Rifles?

Postby jmra » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:42 pm

baldeagle wrote:
DocV wrote:No and no. Never and never.

:iagree: :iagree: :iagree:

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Re: Handguns or Rifles?

Postby AEA » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:43 pm

:iagree:
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Re: Handguns or Rifles?

Postby carlson1 » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:44 pm

:iagree:

I am waiting to see who is willing to give up their arms.
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Re: Handguns or Rifles?

Postby The Annoyed Man » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:45 pm

I would not accept EITHER, and I won't vote in the poll because I don't want gun-grabbers, who surely read these pages, to take the results as "proof" that gun owners are willing to accept "reasonable laws" to ban one single one of my guns. Not one.
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Re: Handguns or Rifles?

Postby RSJ » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:47 pm

Option #3, ban nothing, and except nothing less than ZERO intervention by congress.
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Re: Handguns or Rifles?

Postby AndyC » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:48 pm

Neither option is acceptable to me.
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Re: Handguns or Rifles?

Postby tomtexan » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:49 pm

I will not vote either way, because that's just not acceptable. :grumble
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Re: Handguns or Rifles?

Postby Keith B » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:51 pm

Not voting becasue I am not willing to support either. Your poll is like your wife asking if the dress makes her look fat; there is no correct answer.
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Re: Handguns or Rifles?

Postby SRH78 » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:57 pm

Keith B wrote:Not voting becasue I am not willing to support either. Your poll is like your wife asking if the dress makes her look fat; there is no correct answer.

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+1 for neither is acceptable at all
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