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MI Poll: How do you feel about your Realtor carrying a gun?
Gun Watch ^ | 8 November, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 11/07/2014 12:00:52 PM PST by marktwain

MI Realtor with CCW permit

Michigan Poll:  Would you be more comfortable shopping for a home if you knew your Realtor was carrying a gun?

Note the tortured structure of this poll.  Not "Would it bother you if your Realtor carried a gun?  Not  "Do you think Realtors should be able to carry guns?"

I think the clearest question would be "Would you prefer that your Realtor  be unarmed?"

But the question is what it is.   The results so far are as follows:

Would you be more comfortable shopping for a home if you knew your Realtor was carrying a gun?

yes     61.53%  (411 votes)

No     38.4%    (257 votes)

The Link for the poll is here

On line  polls  measure the ratio of those who are interested enough to answer an online poll. The results are a little low.  Second Amendment supporters typically outnumber those who push for more restrictions by 3-10 to 1. In this case it is not yet 2-1 ratio. This poll is asking an essentially emotional question designed to delegitimize self defense. Those who want more restrictions on guns must delegitimize self defense, or they lose.  Even with the emotional trigger in place, the poll is almost 2-1 ratio in favor of second amendment supporters.

 ©2014 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice is included.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; ccw; mi; poll
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An appeal to hoplophobes everywhere.
1 posted on 11/07/2014 12:00:52 PM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

I think that it would be a hint that he’s trying to sell me a house in a crappy neighborhood.


2 posted on 11/07/2014 12:03:41 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: marktwain

Hoplophobes? I had to look it up, means a fear of weapons. At first I thought it was a fear of the Hops in Beer.


3 posted on 11/07/2014 12:06:00 PM PST by lee martell
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To: JohnBrowdie

“I think that it would be a hint that he’s trying to sell me a house in a crappy neighborhood.”

Or that she carries everywhere.

Or that you are in a good place where a high percentage of the people carry. High percentages of CCW permits correlate with low crime rates and prosperity.


4 posted on 11/07/2014 12:08:17 PM PST by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: lee martell
At first I thought it was a fear of the Hops in Beer.

I believe that is Samadamsophobia.

5 posted on 11/07/2014 12:09:43 PM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: marktwain

We’d have something in common right off the bat.


6 posted on 11/07/2014 12:09:54 PM PST by moovova
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To: JohnBrowdie

What a way to spin a question.


7 posted on 11/07/2014 12:13:00 PM PST by samtheman
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To: marktwain; JohnBrowdie

As marktwain noted, Realtors go everywhere in a market area.

The Realtors that were attacked in our area have been female and showing a home in semi remote areas. None were armed.


8 posted on 11/07/2014 12:13:36 PM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: marktwain
How do you feel about your Realtor carrying a gun?

Much better than my squatter carrying a gun.

9 posted on 11/07/2014 12:17:14 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: JohnBrowdie

That what you got eyes for.

HE Realtors totin ain’t the issue, its the SHE realtors that damn sure need to.


10 posted on 11/07/2014 12:18:35 PM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: marktwain

Smart move on her part.


11 posted on 11/07/2014 12:18:43 PM PST by ctdonath2 (You know what, just do it.)
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To: marktwain

No one needs to know whether he/she has a gun or not. A criminal could pretend to be a home buyer and use a realtor to break in to someone’s house.


12 posted on 11/07/2014 12:20:23 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: marktwain

ping


13 posted on 11/07/2014 12:21:46 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: marktwain

We had a realtor murdered while showing a house in Arkansas not long ago.


14 posted on 11/07/2014 12:22:01 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: marktwain

http://www.inman.com/2012/04/30/assaults-murders-real-estate-professionals-rise/


15 posted on 11/07/2014 12:23:31 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Blue Jays
Responses following my YES vote moments ago:

YES = 63.60%
NO = 36.40%

When leftwingers see a poll going against their wishes, they will just close it down and remove it from the website.
That is their version of taking their ball and running home.
16 posted on 11/07/2014 12:26:00 PM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: marktwain

How about answer c)If the realtor is doing CCW correctly, I should never know, and that in itself is reassuring.


17 posted on 11/07/2014 12:28:33 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: marktwain
Screw these disarm people.
A manager of mine many years ago who moonlighted as a realtor was found dead - raped and strangled, in a home she was showing.

She was a feisty gal, but fairly small - I've always thought that if she'd been armed the outcome would have been different.

18 posted on 11/07/2014 12:28:48 PM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: marktwain

Yes 64.55% (468 votes)

No 35.45% (257 votes)

Total Votes: 725


19 posted on 11/07/2014 12:29:43 PM PST by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Last month a realtor was killed. Perhaps the gun is to protect her from you and not the crappy neighborhood.


20 posted on 11/07/2014 12:30:48 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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