CNN POLL....GO VOTE - The Firearms Forum

AL MOUNT · 02-17-2010, 08:11 AM

Lower right hand poll, do you own a gun

http://www.cnn.com/

dbrodin · 02-17-2010, 08:23 AM

carver · 02-17-2010, 08:35 AM

No 61% 98336
Yes 39% 63105
Total votes: 161441
This is not a scientific poll
I voted twice!

Please click on read related articles. There is a video on illegal guns. Don't know what that has to with Lost or Stolen guns, but one woman says "evel guns".

Trouble 45-70 · 02-17-2010, 08:45 AM

Does this poll capture your computer address?

After all it is CNN.

petesusn · 02-17-2010, 09:37 AM

Ain't none of their busines whether or not I own a gun.

AL MOUNT · 02-17-2010, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petesusn

Ain't none of their busines whether or not I own a gun.

I understand where yer coming from.... and you are right.

My sole intent is to keep these scum bags from saying something to the effect of....

"See...the majority of Americans don't own guns...let's not fear that minority of fringe wacos

and just ban them all.

petesusn · 02-17-2010, 10:09 AM

I also understand where you are coming from Al.
But we have something like 300 million people in the U.S. and I don't believe that over half are gun owners. I think that gun owners are a minority of the population. And yet I believe that there are enough of us to make a big difference. As a matter of fact there are enough of us members of this forum to constitute an army bigger than a lot of countries..

Marlin T · 02-17-2010, 01:36 PM

Look at all the sheepel
________________________

Do you own a gun?
This is not a scientific poll

No
61%
175097
Yes
39%
112504
Total votes: 287601
This is not a scientific poll

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE:
WHEN DO POLICE HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY TO PROTECT?
By aniel L. Schofield, S.J.D.
Special Agent
Chief, Legal Instruction Unit
FBI Academy

CONCLUSION
The cases discussed in this article suggest that as a
general rule, police do not have a constitutionally imposed duty
to protect citizens against domestic violence. While
exceptional circumstances may create such a duty and give rise
to potential liability under Section 1983, lawsuits against the
police for a failure to protect may have a greater likelihood of
success in State court under a State-created duty to protect.
Therefore, law enforcement administrators must decide how to
most effectively allocate limited police resources to protect
all the citizens in their communities.

_____________________

"There is no constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen. It is monstrous if the state fails to protect its residents against such predators but does not violate the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, or, we suppose, any other provision of the Constitution. The Constitution is a charter of negative liberties: it tells the state to let the people alone; it does not require the federal government or the state to provide services, even so elementary a service as maintaining law and order.".

1982 (Bowers v. DeVito), the Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

Maximilian II · 02-17-2010, 11:12 PM

I think gun ownership must be a regional thing, I can't name but two households I know of that don't have firearms in them. This including some rabid Obama supporters.
That's from a lifetime living in the South. Different elsewhere maybe?

Airdale · 02-18-2010, 07:13 AM

Actually I'm a little surprised there are that many people watching CNN that own guns!

petesusn · 02-18-2010, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Airdale

Actually I'm a little surprised there are that many people watching CNN that own guns!

So true.

02-17-2010, 08:11 AM	#1
AL MOUNT Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Cleaning my Thompson in The Foothills of the Ozark Mountains Posts: 3,108	CNN POLL....GO VOTE Lower right hand poll, do you own a gun http://www.cnn.com/ __________________ 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment 101st Airborne Division Vietnam 67-68 -->

02-17-2010, 08:23 AM	#2
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02-17-2010, 08:35 AM	#3
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,280	Re: CNN POLL....GO VOTE No 61% 98336 Yes 39% 63105 Total votes: 161441 This is not a scientific poll I voted twice! Please click on read related articles. There is a video on illegal guns. Don't know what that has to with Lost or Stolen guns, but one woman says "evel guns". __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. Last edited by carver; 02-17-2010 at 08:37 AM..

02-17-2010, 08:45 AM	#4
Trouble 45-70 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: NE Ar. W. of Black River Contributor Posts: 2,703	Re: CNN POLL....GO VOTE Does this poll capture your computer address? After all it is CNN. __________________ Psalm 12 verse 8: The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted.

02-17-2010, 09:37 AM	#5
petesusn Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: San Joaquin Valley, Ca. Posts: 614	Re: CNN POLL....GO VOTE Ain't none of their busines whether or not I own a gun. __________________ Self Defense: A basic human right The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National Guard, which was created 130 years later, in 1917. A man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile...can respond with a great deal of pride and satisfaction, "I served in the U. S. Navy." John F. Kennedy VFW Life Member

02-17-2010, 10:09 AM	#7
petesusn Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: San Joaquin Valley, Ca. Posts: 614	Re: CNN POLL....GO VOTE I also understand where you are coming from Al. But we have something like 300 million people in the U.S. and I don't believe that over half are gun owners. I think that gun owners are a minority of the population. And yet I believe that there are enough of us to make a big difference. As a matter of fact there are enough of us members of this forum to constitute an army bigger than a lot of countries.. __________________ Self Defense: A basic human right The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National Guard, which was created 130 years later, in 1917. A man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile...can respond with a great deal of pride and satisfaction, "I served in the U. S. Navy." John F. Kennedy VFW Life Member

02-17-2010, 01:36 PM	#8
Marlin T Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: New Mexico Posts: 7,857	Re: CNN POLL....GO VOTE Look at all the sheepel ________________________ Do you own a gun? This is not a scientific poll No 61% 175097 Yes 39% 112504 Total votes: 287601 This is not a scientific poll DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: WHEN DO POLICE HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY TO PROTECT? By aniel L. Schofield, S.J.D. Special Agent Chief, Legal Instruction Unit FBI Academy CONCLUSION The cases discussed in this article suggest that as a general rule, police do not have a constitutionally imposed duty to protect citizens against domestic violence. While exceptional circumstances may create such a duty and give rise to potential liability under Section 1983, lawsuits against the police for a failure to protect may have a greater likelihood of success in State court under a State-created duty to protect. Therefore, law enforcement administrators must decide how to most effectively allocate limited police resources to protect all the citizens in their communities. _____________________ "There is no constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen. It is monstrous if the state fails to protect its residents against such predators but does not violate the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, or, we suppose, any other provision of the Constitution. The Constitution is a charter of negative liberties: it tells the state to let the people alone; it does not require the federal government or the state to provide services, even so elementary a service as maintaining law and order.". 1982 (Bowers v. DeVito), the Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit __________________ "But the simple truth--born of experience--is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people." Judge Alex Kozinski - United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. - Thomas Paine Did you read todays GOOD shooting? >>>KEEPANDBEARARMS.COM <<< Last edited by Marlin T; 02-17-2010 at 01:39 PM..

02-17-2010, 11:12 PM	#9
Maximilian II Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Northwest GA Posts: 1,381	Re: CNN POLL....GO VOTE I think gun ownership must be a regional thing, I can't name but two households I know of that don't have firearms in them. This including some rabid Obama supporters. That's from a lifetime living in the South. Different elsewhere maybe? __________________ Karma is just justice, without the satisfaction. And I don't believe in justice. -Joe Sarno, bagman.

02-18-2010, 07:13 AM	#10
Airdale Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: N.W. Arkansas Contributor Posts: 750	Re: CNN POLL....GO VOTE Actually I'm a little surprised there are that many people watching CNN that own guns! __________________ "The Utopian schemes of leveling [redistribution of the wealth] and a community of goods [central ownership of the means of production and distribution], are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown.[These ideas] are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government, unconstitutional." Samuel Adams