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Showing Original Post only (View all)Hypothetical gun poll [View all]
From a conversation I'm having.
If you could snap your fingers, and replace every single civilian-owned handgun in the united states with an AR-15, do you think doing that would make the country more safe or less safe?
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Less safe | |
15 (63%) |
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More safe | |
6 (25%) |
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Little real effect | |
3 (13%) |
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But AR15's, etc., are the easiest to conceal. Some upstanding "law-abiding" gunner examples.
Hoyt
Jun 2016
#3
Yes, I believe someone like Manteen can do exactly that. And easy to hide in the a car, case, etc.
Hoyt
Jun 2016
#5
Do you understand that we are just in the beginning of terrorism -- foreign and domestic.
Hoyt
Jun 2016
#13
Never met a paranoid bicycling gunner and I road in some pretty remote areas. I think carrying a gun
Hoyt
Jun 2016
#25
Ah - I bought a sweet Trek Domane last year - but road Rail Trails are further then the mt bike
jmg257
Jun 2016
#33