Can people bring guns to voting sites? You might be surprised - Los Angeles Times - 27 views
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jessicasolorio on 26 Oct 20What's your guys' opinion on this?
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gozzello162 on 26 Oct 20People should not be allowed to bring guns to the polling stations. These can be used as a form of voter intimidation which is a crime, though at it's core I have respect for people's right to carry, guns should never be used to scare or intimidate voters
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hharker376 on 26 Oct 20This should not be allowed. This could cause many harmful things including intimidation and crimes against a particular group of people.
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josephinelamb on 26 Oct 20No, people should not be allowed to bring guns to polling stations.
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emilysmith200 on 26 Oct 20No, people shouldn't be allowed to bring guns to voting sites. I feel like this will create more problems than solutions.
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jcollins438 on 26 Oct 20This should not be allowed
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olijohnson on 26 Oct 20I dont think people should be able to bring guns to a voting site
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makosa23 on 26 Oct 20This should not be able to allowed
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bayliegirres on 26 Oct 20I don't think there is a reason they should even feel the need to bring a gun to a voting site. But no they shouldn't bring a gun.
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mmailey052 on 26 Oct 20This should not be allowed I think that this could cause major issues with other people and safety.
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trinitytallman on 26 Oct 20People should not be allowed to do this. What would the purpose of having a gun be? Something bad could happen if this was allowed.
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saralong057 on 26 Oct 20This shouldn't be allowed. It's unnecessary and could cause an even bigger issue than there would have been if a gun hadn't been brought.
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scarney230 on 26 Oct 20i feel having fire arms there would not be okay and it would not be safe many things could haoppen it could cause chaos
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Bryan Pregon on 26 Oct 20Thanks for posting this Jessica! A good amount of responses so far. I will post a wikipedia link for state-by-state carry rules. If that isn't tricky enough, some states have laws differentiating "carrying" a firearm and "brandishing" (holding it pointed toward someone). I suspect we will be hearing more about this over the next week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state#Iowa
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cmacias539 on 26 Oct 20No people shouldn't be allowed to bring a gun because agreeing with someone else's comment, it would only cause more problems than solutions, therefore it is unnecessary.
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laurenhansen168 on 30 Oct 20I don't think people should bring guns to the voting site because it may cause others not to come and may scare people. It would not be safe and there could be many things to go wrong.
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jcooley186 on 02 Nov 20I think bringing guns is super unnecessary to bring to a polling site, it could scare people away and possibly be the cause of an injury or death.
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carmellahargens on 13 Jan 21i think that unless you have your concealed carry licence, you should be able to bring it. yes, there is a chance of people being afraid, but there is nothing you can do about that. it isn't going to harm the election in any way and there are rules that have to be followed in order to be given the privilege of the license in the first place
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bigslide on 27 Jan 21why would you bring a gun, something for self-defense, killing, hurting... to voting sites? ummmmmmm
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thepriceisright on 27 Jan 21I simply do not see the point. I mean sure you can bring them if you are licensed but that doesn't mean I'm not going to judge you because clearly, the purpose is to make a statement, and not for self-defense. It's not like a grandma is going to point a gun at your head and make you vote Biden.
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ataylor074 on 27 Jan 21I personally think that you shouldn't be able to bring guns to voting sites. People are already intimidated going to these places to vote, and adding weapons would just cause more harm than good.
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nadialove on 27 Jan 21I personally don't believe there is any reason to bring a weapon to voting sites at all. There should be no weapons in a building during a government event.
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gavync_alhs on 27 Jan 21If the gun holder has a licensed weapon and has years of experience with guns, then I think it wouldn't be a problem. A problem I noticed in the USA is everyone is very paranoid about guns, but not the person holding the gun. If the person has had little to no mental health issues and had years of experience with guns, then It shouldn't be a problem.
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matts999 on 27 Jan 21It doesn't make sense for people to be able to open carry firearms because votes could feel intimidated by the weapons into voting for a candidate they don't actually like.
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hannahliwai on 01 Feb 21i can't think of a reason of why people can bring guns into voting places. yes, they have a right to own one, but i don't think you need to carry a gun with you to vote
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eballenger on 01 Feb 21I think it's okay for someone with a license to carry to bring one in because that's the entire purpose of a license, but I think it should be kept to only small firearms in the event that someone were to attempt to attack a voting site.
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pcloyd_flanagan on 01 Feb 21I do not think people should bring guns to voting sites there is absolutely no reason. It only takes one person to get mad or get their feelings hurt and then start shooting then people are hurt or even dead. Especially when the world and the people are like the way they are right now.
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tkoesters274 on 25 May 21I don't think that people should bring guns to voting sites because it would be easy for them to just decide to shoot it up if people don't agree with them.
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hschimmer540 on 25 May 21I don't think it's a good idea to bring guns to voting sites because there is no point to. You wouldn't be in danger more than likely so there is no reason to take a gun with you to vote. And it may make other people uncomfortable and feel less safe while voting.
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bigslide on 25 May 21It's a bad idea. Why would someone need to bring a gun to a voting site? Just vote and then leave. leave your gun at home for this.
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jcontreras201 on 25 May 21I think it's a bad idea to let people bring guns to voting sites because theirs literally no reason to, there going to vote, and if anything letting people take guns will just make it worse.