MI Poll: How do you feel about your Realtor carrying a gun?

Gun Watch ^ | 8 November, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[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.

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[marktwain]

An appeal to hoplophobes everywhere.

[JohnBrowdie]

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

[lee martell]

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.

[marktwain]

“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.

[tnlibertarian]

At first I thought it was a fear of the Hops in Beer.

I believe that is Samadamsophobia.

[moovova]

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

[samtheman]

What a way to spin a question.

[PeteB570]

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.

[Navy Patriot]

How do you feel about your Realtor carrying a gun?

Much better than my squatter carrying a gun.

[X-spurt]

That what you got eyes for.

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

[ctdonath2]

Smart move on her part.

[smokingfrog]

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.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

ping

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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

[SWAMPSNIPER]

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

[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.

[Pearls Before Swine]

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

[grobdriver]

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.

[FrdmLvr]

Yes 64.55% (468 votes)

No 35.45% (257 votes)

Total Votes: 725

[morphing libertarian]

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