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Showing Original Post only (View all)If Your Knew Your Neighbor Had Assault Weapons And Assault Clips, Would You Move? [View all]
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86 votes, 3 passes | Time left: Unlimited | |
Yes | |
16 (19%) |
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No | |
55 (64%) |
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I'd do nothing. | |
0 (0%) |
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I have assault weapons and assault clips. | |
6 (7%) |
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Can't afford to move. I'd warn other neighbors and wait for him to snap. | |
9 (10%) |
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3 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
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If Your Knew Your Neighbor Had Assault Weapons And Assault Clips, Would You Move? [View all]
onehandle
Jan 2013
OP
I'd introduce myself, compare collections, and invite the person to go out shooting in the desert
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#2
An expensive and often frustrating sport where you spend hours and hours propelling
petronius
Jan 2013
#92
When you are shooting at soda can size targets at 500 or 600 yards, or more, a SMALL explosive...
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#125
Cool! Then make it law that your gun is kept in storage at a licensed gun range
rustydog
Jan 2013
#284
Florida, California, Maryland, New York, Illinois and New Jersey and maybe even the others
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#324
If that is your view, then you won't mind if we pass the laws that are safest for the most
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#340
It would depend on my judgment about the personality of my neighbor and ALL the members
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#6
If by LA you mean Los Angeles, you would probably be very surprised if you took a drive one day...
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#7
Checked out the Chabot range Website, and demographics were as I would have guessed.
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#57
Figured it would turn you on. How many assault weapons have you acquired since Sandy Hook?
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#90
Would you vote for a Republican if your right to cover yourself in arms were severely restricted?
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#255
last spring I bought my first bonsai. I agree taking good care is very demanding.
Sunlei
Jan 2013
#146
Haha great burglar story, good the cops caught him! I only saw the tennis shoe of the last burglar.
Sunlei
Jan 2013
#140
A friend of mine is in that situation. Her neighbors are criminals. She wants to move.
ecstatic
Jan 2013
#16
It's unfortunate that you equate a neighbor lawfully owning a firearm with one being a criminal
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#21
Let's assume that your first sentence is true, even though it's not because handguns are really...
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#28
"I suspect that your thought processes have been shaped by misleading vividness in media reporting"
ecstatic
Jan 2013
#37
Not true. My friend "Jim" the felon (not his real name) used toy guns when he robbed people.
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#122
Wouldn't know. Don't have any friends who robbed anyone with a gun or the illusion of one
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#129
"Jim" (not his real name) is the only one I know. He was the main talent for a record company...
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#132
Not only does the United States not have a "Dept of Needs," it does not have "assault clips."
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2013
#148
Stripper clips can, of course, be even more dangerous if more than one is thrown at a time.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2013
#108
I would move as soon as possible/practical, anyone who is paranoid enough to think they
DrewFlorida
Jan 2013
#26
Since the majority with that kind of crud are bigoted right wingers, I'd make it a point to let them
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#31
If you want to be in a safe neighborhood, come to Chicago where there can't be any such guns
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2013
#34
How outrageous of you to say so. Don't you know that there are many rich and super-rich
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2013
#89
Can't argue with the merits of a comment? Call it a it a "Talking Point" !!
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jan 2013
#70
Getting out = Your act of falsely claiming something is a "NRA Talking Point"
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2013
#100
The people who would move because their neighbor owns guns are the real delicate flowers.
Undismayed
Jan 2013
#166
If it's been so thoroughly rebutted (over and over and over...) then just post the common rebuttal.
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jan 2013
#106
Haven't heard of neighbors getting shot with assault weapons as a particular threat.
dkf
Jan 2013
#53
Where could someone move to in America where their neighbors won't have semi-auto rifles? n/t
Taitertots
Jan 2013
#61
LOL. You just reminded me of my Conservative Grandmother who lived in Southern California
rightsideout
Jan 2013
#156
are you still going to cotimue to walk your dog on the path behind his house? nt
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jan 2013
#75
Neither would I, that guy sounds nuts. Was this all hearsay, or he ACTUALLY does this? nt
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jan 2013
#85
Of course not, I would be happy he (or she) was protecting his/her home.
dexter sinister
Jan 2013
#95
No. but I'd write my rep in Congress to pass a law to make the gun illegal. q
Buzz Clik
Jan 2013
#133
I moved out of my rooming house when my housemate threatened to "show" me his
no_hypocrisy
Jan 2013
#136
You just called all of these people trolls. Way to go. What, no Delicate Flowers or Precious?
cherokeeprogressive
Jan 2013
#144
It's legal so you have to use your best judgment if neighbors are a danger or not.I would not move.
Sunlei
Jan 2013
#139
As long as they don't play loud country music, I don't care what they do. nt
ZombieHorde
Jan 2013
#163
DU rules forced 'antis' into the shadows. That time is over. Go back to the gungeon. nt
onehandle
Jan 2013
#225
You see some pariah object that resembles a futuristic ray gun from a 1950s SciFi movie
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#269
I still see a rifle. It's unfortunate that you presume to know the mindset of every person...
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#317
Are you bothered by the excessive number of mounting rails on the foreend of that rifle?
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#216
This, is why the human species lives in a corner of the universe isolated from
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#204
Words have meanings. If you want people to understand you then you should learn them.
DesMoinesDem
Jan 2013
#220
I understood what it meant - device to feed more bullets to the chamber than any moral person will
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#262
Clear to me. Of course, I don't "pointy finger" read word-by-word. I read in chunks for ideas.
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#280
Except that a clip doesn't feed bullets into the chamber, so you don't know what it means.
DesMoinesDem
Jan 2013
#281
Is the irony lost on you that that wasn't an assault weapon under the '94 ban?
Recursion
Jan 2013
#245
Some that I know do, but there are some I hope don't have any kind of a weopon. n/t
doc03
Jan 2013
#285
I wouldn't trust my neighbour with a drawing of a butter knife, but he's an outlier. (nt)
Posteritatis
Jan 2013
#341