Poll for gun control activists:

[myrkul]

So...

I'm curious. How many of you guys would be comfortable putting one of these:

On your front lawn?

[myrkul]

I'm going to assume the pro-gun guys would like something more like this:

[FirstAscent]

It's pretty much a well known fact that virtually all households in Japan have no guns in them. Consistency is what matters. You're attitude is to escalate forever. Disgusting.

[myrkul]

It's pretty much a well known fact that virtually all households in Japan have no guns in them.

So I take it that you're the "yes" vote, then?

[FirstAscent]

It's pretty much a well known fact that virtually all households in Japan have no guns in them.

So I take it that you're the "yes" vote, then?

Actually, I didn't vote.

[myrkul]

It's pretty much a well known fact that virtually all households in Japan have no guns in them.

So I take it that you're the "yes" vote, then?

Actually, I didn't vote.

Well, now that's just a shame.

[myrkul]

Well, now that we have a few votes, I see pretty much the pattern I expected. Mostly hypocrites. Everyone who voted no: You're a bunch of hypocrites, but especially the person who voted "No, I own a gun, but think you should not be able to."

To the one stand-up person who would actually post a sign: Have you such a sign? Has it protected you thus far?

To the hypocrites: Why, if you would not subject yourself to this danger, do you do so to our children?

To the really hypocritical asshole: Fuck you.

[CountSparkle]

Why do you care if they want to have guns or not? If they live in a safe area, it's irrelevant, and if not, they'll likely die anyway. It shouldn't affect your own life.

[organofcorti]

Gun control in my country appears to work. I'm for maintaining the peaceful status quo here, so I suppose I'm a defacto gun control advocate. I'm beginning to think that gun control discussion threads should be tagged to indicate which country they apply to, since it's clear that while gun control might not be possible or prudent in some societies, it is possible and useful in others.

As to the question in the OP, I wouldn't put up a sign on my front lawn (if I had one) like the one in your post for the same reason I wouldn't put up a "Nuclear Free Zone" sign. It's tacky and does nothing to encourage discussion between opposing viewpoints.

[mufa23]

Would you advertise the fact that your home is a "Gun-free zone?

OF COURSE! Guns are evil metallic weapons built by satan. They are so evil that even Hitler made sure to disarm the german people.

If you own a gun, you are going to hell. Period!

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[yogi]

I don't own a gun, I don't think I should be allowed to own one. I have no good reason for needing one. If I did own one I would be in more danger of accidentally shooting myself or someone else than ever needing it for self defence. I don't care who knows that I don't own a gun. Gun ownership is so low in my country that people will simple assume I don't own a gun anyway.

This poll is the most pointed poll I've seen on this forum.

[fornit]

i voted option 1.
i dont feel that protecting some items of mediocre value is worth getting into a firefight. if robberies were a real problem in my neighborhood, i would get insurance and just hop out the window. or better yet, move to a different neighborhood.
same goes for the robber btw. property crimes are not associated with long jail time in germany, so killing some guy to eliminate the remote chance that you are identified would be really really stupid. if i were a robber i certainly would not carry a firearm either.

[Bitware]

I don't think I should be allowed

I pity you... that you require permission to do anything or be anything or have anything.

[yogi]

I don't think I should be allowed

I pity you... that you require permission to do anything or be anything or have anything.

So do you believe people should be allowed to do what ever they want, even if it endangers, or deprives others of their own rights?

[organofcorti]

I don't think I should be allowed

I pity you... that you require permission to do anything or be anything or have anything.

So you think you should be allowed to do anything or be anything or have anything? That's a bit egocentric and solipsistic isn't it? You really have no regard for what your fellow citizens may think of you?

[Lethn]

Why is it that you lot are jumping to conclusions and just making up an imaginary conversation you had with him?

[organofcorti]

Why is it that you lot are jumping to conclusions and just making up an imaginary conversation you had with him?

It's not much of a conclusion to jump to. He pities anyone who think they need "permission to do anything or be anything or have anything". He implies that he himself does not need such permission.

[Lethn]

Maybe you should let people voice their opinions on their own rather than just making it up like a Journalist normally does.

[yogi]

Why is it that you lot are jumping to conclusions and just making up an imaginary conversation you had with him?

It's not much of a conclusion to jump to. He pities anyone who think they need "permission to do anything or be anything or have anything". He implies that he himself does not need such permission.

+1

[organofcorti]

Maybe you should let people voice their opinions on their own rather than just making it up like a Journalist normally does.

OK then: Bitware, you state that you believe someone who requires "permission to do anything or be anything or have anything" is to be pitied. Does this mean that you do not believe that you require such permission?