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Showing Original Post only (View all)Gun Control [View all]
Poll choices taken from Texas high school gun survey - http://wonkette.com/594426/high-school-students-try-to-do-journalism-on-guns-gun-humpers-freak-out#p3Pz4Kr6BeLvoUQe.99
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No limits on gun ownership | |
2 (5%) |
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Some limits on gun ownership (No felons, some background checks, etc.) | |
13 (30%) |
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Moderate limits on gun ownership (Extensive background checks, no automatic weapons, etc.) | |
17 (40%) |
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Strict limits on gun ownership (Only allowed in special circumstances, etc.) | |
10 (23%) |
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Total prohibition of guns | |
1 (2%) |
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According to FBI shotguns and rifles (short or otherwise) are rarely used unlawfully
Statistical
Oct 2015
#54
True, but short shotguns are used orders of magnitude more often than automatic weapons
Recursion
Oct 2015
#55
That said, use of automatic weapons in crime did certainly seem to go down after 1934
Recursion
Oct 2015
#58
to get full auto weapons there are a barrel of hoops and forms and taxes and Gawd knows what else.
littlewolf
Oct 2015
#3
That exact same law bans sawed-off shotguns, which are used rather frequently
Recursion
Oct 2015
#12
Exactly what advantage does a fully automatic weapon offer to your average criminal?
spin
Oct 2015
#45
The only thing odd about it is that they categorize it as moderate gun control.
Gormy Cuss
Oct 2015
#51
Cleaning them, however, is some of the most back-breaking drudgery in the catalog of human toil
Recursion
Oct 2015
#37
A background check that looks into political leanings? Have you thought that out? Sounds kind
kelly1mm
Oct 2015
#34
I think the problem is just that - govenment protected. None of those haters simply
kelly1mm
Oct 2015
#40