Do you own a firearm?

Seebs · Post by **Seebs** » June 22, 2005, 6:03 pm

Just curious.

Please list your political leanings, Conservative or Liberal.

Yes, conservative.

Animale · Post by **Animale** » June 22, 2005, 6:08 pm

Don't hunt, thus don't need one.

Oh... liberal.

Animale

p.s. Also don't want one to kill a member of my household, thus don't own one for "protection."

Sueven · Post by **Sueven** » June 22, 2005, 6:10 pm

No / No political affiliation

Mawafu · Post by **Mawafu** » June 22, 2005, 6:21 pm

no, conservative

Midnyte_Ragebringer · Post by **Midnyte_Ragebringer** » June 22, 2005, 6:31 pm

no, conservative.

Xatrei · Post by **Xatrei** » June 22, 2005, 6:38 pm

No, Moderate w/ liberal leanings.

Post by **Sylvus** » June 22, 2005, 6:41 pm

I voted no, though I think that I have a shotgun at my dad's house that my uncle got me a long time ago, I may have shot it once.

I'm directly in the middle, and I lean away from whichever side seems stupidest at the time. Usually, around here, that's the right.

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » June 22, 2005, 6:50 pm

no but getting one this year / liberal.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » June 22, 2005, 6:54 pm

Guns are stupid.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » June 22, 2005, 6:56 pm

Yes, classical conservative.

Nick wrote:Guns are stupid.

This attitude is why you still have Britons in your lands. We shot at them until they left

Nick · Post by **Nick** » June 22, 2005, 7:25 pm

Masteen you dope, why didn't you kill all of them?

Guns are in fact still stupid.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » June 22, 2005, 7:27 pm

No, Canadian(aka moderate liberal)

noel · Post by **noel** » June 22, 2005, 7:37 pm

No, I don't need one.

Guns are about as far from stupid as you can get; people however are stupid in droves.

Ebumar · Post by **Ebumar** » June 22, 2005, 8:29 pm

Yes, Conservative.

Jice Virago · Post by **Jice Virago** » June 22, 2005, 8:43 pm

Yes, Social Liberal/Fiscal Conservative

miir · Post by **miir** » June 22, 2005, 10:06 pm

Yes, have a shotgun at the cottage.
Haven't fired it in about 5 years and I'm a liberal pussy.

This attitude is why you still have Britons in your lands. We shot at them until they left

hehe

Fash · Post by **Fash** » June 22, 2005, 10:12 pm

No.. and right of center on most issues.

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » June 22, 2005, 10:34 pm

Communist Revolutionary

I own several and if clay pigeons invade...they are fucked...

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » June 22, 2005, 10:45 pm

No, liberal I guess. I would never own one either as hunting doesn't appeal to me and I really wouldn't want a firearm anywhere near my household once our family begins being raised.

It's interesting though, my father and father's father used to hunt quite a bit (but they really preferred to fish more than anything else) while my mother's father pretty much gave up anything to do with guns after he survived D-day through the Bulge. Oddly, it was my grandmother who felt he shouldn't try and re-live it in any way shape or form yet there was no real animosity towards the actual ownership of a gun on his part. The fam as a whole is pretty much liberal across the board which was the original question. But everyone prior to my generation has possessed a gun at home up until the current one.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » June 22, 2005, 11:03 pm

Yes for work on my mom's farm

Pretty much middle of the road since I feel both parties in the US are fucked up in their own ways.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » June 22, 2005, 11:22 pm

Multiple, very proficient too I might add

Grew up around guns, as did my kids. It's just another tool.

Moderate to conservative on most subjects. Generally vote conservative.

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » June 22, 2005, 11:36 pm

Yup, I enjoy firearms and the safe use of them. As far as conservative? Yeah, on a fiscal level, but I can't stand the religious right so....

Gun-toting moderate, I guess...

Canoe · Post by **Canoe** » June 22, 2005, 11:38 pm

Yes, Conservative.

Avid Hunter.

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » June 22, 2005, 11:40 pm

/offrail

Oh, Canoooeebieeee, I will be in NY late July to Mid August for training, drop me a PM and we will go fishing!

/onrail

Neost · Post by **Neost** » June 22, 2005, 11:42 pm

Yes, moderate-to-right.

Siji · Post by **Siji** » June 23, 2005, 12:00 am

Yes, multiple.

Guns are stupid until someone has broken into your home and poses a threat to you or your family. Then people that don't have them for protection are stupid.

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » June 23, 2005, 12:21 am

Don't have one, don't want one, don't have a need for one.

Niffoni · Post by **Niffoni** » June 23, 2005, 12:28 am

I have one, but only to protect myself from Siji.

Trek · Post by **Trek** » June 23, 2005, 12:55 am

Have a few, live in Nevada (not in Vegas) we are all hunters and gatherers so its a must. Usually conservative, but it really depends on the issue.

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » June 23, 2005, 3:59 am

Yes, multiple... Liberal to moderate.

Marb

VariaVespasa · Post by **VariaVespasa** » June 23, 2005, 6:10 am

Yes, and Liberal

Varia

Sargeras · Post by **Sargeras** » June 23, 2005, 8:11 am

Yes, and walking the tightrope in the center.

I also have a big fucking bat.

archeiron · Post by **archeiron** » June 23, 2005, 8:53 am

No, Social Liberal/Fiscal Conservative

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » June 23, 2005, 8:56 am

Yes, several. Moderate with right leanings.

Wife is conservative and hated guns. The odd thing is that she actually feels better now knowing that I have a .357 in the nightstand and know how to use it. I guess with as crazy as the world is today you have to protect yourself.

btw....Noel just earned a sig quote!

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » June 23, 2005, 9:30 am

No, and even if the danish gun laws were as screwed as the US ones, i wouldnt own one.

And guess im liberal pussy here, although my parents were members of the Danish Communist Party

And yes, that didnt stop me from being able to travel to the US twice now.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » June 23, 2005, 10:26 am

Just out of curiosity, how many of you have actually had people come into your house at night and steal your stuff or assault your family?

Never once happened to me and I am meant to live in a war zone (in the minds of some of you).

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » June 23, 2005, 10:27 am

Hesten wrote:No, and even if the danish gun laws were as screwed as the US ones, i wouldnt own one.

I support the right to keep and arm bears.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » June 23, 2005, 10:42 am

Nope/Fence Rider

cid · Post by **cid** » June 23, 2005, 11:07 am

No

I do not lable myself

Neost · Post by **Neost** » June 23, 2005, 11:41 am

Just out of curiosity, how many of you have actually had people come into your house at night and steal your stuff or assult your family?

Two young gentlemen rang the doorbell to my house Thanksgiving night, 1976. When i answered the door, the pushed through the door and hit me in the side of the head with a .25 automatic. They proceeded to beat and rob me and my Dad, and once almost shot my Dad in the head. Had a terry cloth robe belt tied around his hands, behind his back, up around his neck making it very difficult for him to breathe. One of those cowardly assholes grabbed him by the hair, pulled his head back as far as he could, stuck the gun in his eye and said "You don't think I'll shoot, do you old man?" and proceeded to turn the pistol towards the floor and pull the trigger. My Dad suffered gunpowder burns on his temple and forehead.

Then it got real fun. While one of them held a knife to my throat the other one proceeded to kick the living shit out of my Dad. He kicked so hard, so many times that it left welts in the shape of circles on my Dad's face and neck from teh bottom of his converse fucking tennis shoes.

At the time, we had shotguns and a couple of rifles in the house but they were purely for hunting and kept locked up at all times.

I was sixteen at the time. I still don't sleep without a light on somewhere so that the door to my room is backlit and a pistol close by. I've never come close to endangering any member of my family, including 3 kids who have been through the teen-age years and tried to sneak in and out.

So yeah. I have been in a position where I needed a handgun for protection and wish I had one back then.

Seebs · Post by **Seebs** » June 23, 2005, 11:48 am

I think this poll has proven absolutely nothing.

Chalk one up for Miir, no obvious slant to the right for gun ownership so the lefties not being armed appears to be a false steroetype.

However!!

Is this behavior exclusive to those liberals that play MMORPGS? Hrm? Hrm?

Going back into the think tank.

Sylvos · Post by **Sylvos** » June 23, 2005, 11:59 am

Guns kick ass

Political affiliation aside.

Guns kick ass.

and who cares if im a conservative republican.

Guns are a tool, much like a hammer, a wrench, a jackhammer, a shovel or limestone and rocksalt.

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » June 23, 2005, 12:01 pm

Nick wrote:Just out of curiosity, how many of you have actually had people come into your house at night and steal your stuff or assault your family?

Never once happened to me and I am meant to live in a war zone (in the minds of some of you).

Because people dont break into cardboard boxes.

When I stopped Deer hunting I sold my guns to a local crack dealer.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » June 23, 2005, 12:14 pm

No. Moderate liberal

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » June 23, 2005, 12:26 pm

Nick wrote:Just out of curiosity, how many of you have actually had people come into your house at night and steal your stuff or assault your family?

Never once happened to me and I am meant to live in a war zone (in the minds of some of you).

Its not just about protecting yourself. I'm sure some people have guns for hunting. At least, thats why I am getting one.

Trias · Post by **Trias** » June 23, 2005, 12:54 pm

no guns here

fiscal conservative

indifferent otherwise

Sylvos · Post by **Sylvos** » June 23, 2005, 1:17 pm

I'm sleeping
And right in the middle of a good dream
When all at once I wake up
From something that keeps knockin' at my brain.
Before I go insane
I hold my pillow to my head
And spring up in my bed
Screaming out the words I dread:
"I think I love you!"

This morning
I woke up with this feeling
I didn't know how to deal with
And so I just decided to myself
I'd hide it to myself and never talk about it
And didn't I go and shout it
When you walked into the room.
"I think I love you!"

I think I love you.
So what am I so afraid of?
I'm afraid that I'm not sure of
A love there is no cure for.

I think I love you.
Isn't that what life is made of?
Though it worries me to say
That I've never felt this way.

wwwwhhhh

I don't know what I'm up against.
I don't know what it's all about.
I got so much to think about.

Hey, I think I love you.
So what am I so afraid of?
I'm afraid that I'm not sure of
A love there is no cure for.

I think I love you.
Isn't that what life is made of?
Though it worries me to say
That I've never felt this way.

Believe me,
You really don't have to worry.
I only want to make you happy
And if you say,
"Hey, go away," I will
But I think better still,
I'd better stay around and love you.
Do you think I have a case?
Let me ask you to your face:
Do you think you love me?

I think I love you.
I think I love you.
I think I love you.
I think I love you.
I think I love you.
I think I love you.
I think I love you.
I think I love you.
I think I love you.

Ashur · Post by **Ashur** » June 23, 2005, 1:55 pm

No | South Park conservative.

Baby in the house and paranoid wife won't let me. Yes I do understand gun safety concerns (ex-military) but I do worry about break-ins and being unable to defend my family.

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » June 23, 2005, 1:57 pm

Ill bring up a point tenny made. How often do break-ins happen while you're home?

I think I heard of one case in my life where that actually happened.

miir · Post by **miir** » June 23, 2005, 2:01 pm

Home invasions are far less frequent than robberies