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Shock Poll Results: Over Half Tell Seattle TV Station They Would ‘Arm Themselves’
Liberty Park Press ^ | 25 September, 2020 | Dave Workman

Posted on 09/29/2020 5:51:36 AM PDT by marktwain

After months of often violent, destructive protests in Seattle, when the local ABC affiliate—KOMO, a Sinclair Broadcasting-owned company—posted a poll on Twitter asking what steps people would take to protect their business or neighborhood, more than half of the respondents say they would arm themselves.

As this report was published, the survey result showed 23.4 percent saying they would rely on police and 25.1 percent said they would work with their neighbors. But being armed outpaced those choices more than 2-to-1, in an ultra-liberal city at the heart of a state that votes blue.

The survey came 2 ½ months after the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms issued a statement advising city residents to buy guns, get trained and get a license to carry a loaded sidearm in public.

Back on July 16, CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb advised Seattleites, “While the city council may believe crippling its police department is a politically smart move, it’s going to directly impact public safety. Nobody should be surprised when more people buy guns and apply for carry licenses.”

At the time, the council had just begun talking about slashing the Police Department’s budget. Earlier this week, the council did exactly that on a 7-2 vote, overriding Mayor Jenny Durkan’s earlier veto of the budget that contained the funding cuts.

The turmoil in Seattle is not good for the city’s tourism trade, according to a separate KOMO story.

(Excerpt) Read more at libertyparkpress.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: banglist; poll; polls; seattle; selfdefense
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When people see violent threats, day after day; when government officials say they will defund the police; when people see destruction and death on a regular basis; It does much to clarify their thinking.
1 posted on 09/29/2020 5:51:36 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

New Trump voters I suspect.


2 posted on 09/29/2020 5:53:17 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: marktwain

I was concerned about getting ammo. But then I found a source that supplied me with just under 6,500 rounds for all my guns. And 20,000 more if I ever need them.

I’m in the sticks and this is mostly for “prepper” type needs, which is highly unlikely - still. Honestly, the main function of this stuff is to use it to become proficient in the use of my guns, which I currently really am not. I was always too cheap to practice (cartridges are expensive). No more.


3 posted on 09/29/2020 5:56:13 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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The turmoil in Seattle is not good for the city’s tourism trade, according to a separate KOMO story.

I find that hard to believe. Who wouldn't want to bring the family to a city with filthy streets, wall-to-wall homeless, and now the potential to physically harmed or shot to death by rioters. It's like a Pirates of the Caribbean ride, but without any safety devices.

4 posted on 09/29/2020 5:59:06 AM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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Protests are not violent and destructive.
Riots are violent and destructive.


5 posted on 09/29/2020 6:02:39 AM PDT by wny
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To: marktwain

Just because “protests” are not shooting, doesn’t make them peaceful. Wanton destruction, intimidation, threatening behavior, assaults’, failing to let pass...if these things put fear or fear for their lives in people then it is no longer protesting for redress of grievances.


6 posted on 09/29/2020 6:02:55 AM PDT by EBH (My family fought for Liberty in 1776 and we will do so again. God Save the Republic.)
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To: Mr. K

New Trump voters I suspect.

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I’d like to think, but I’m never surprised anymore when someone votes for their own victimization.


7 posted on 09/29/2020 6:03:50 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: marktwain

That 23.4 percent that would rely on the police are certainly a special kind of stupid, aren’t they? I mean, have they NOT seen the “defunders” in their local governments lately?


8 posted on 09/29/2020 6:07:55 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!!)
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The “would” stage is getting very long in the tooth, if not long gone.

Many people won’t act until the see how the herd is moving and that is usually too late.


9 posted on 09/29/2020 6:10:05 AM PDT by desertfreedom765
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the main function of this stuff is to use it to become proficient in the use of my guns

this is true. I shoot between 5000 and 8000 rounds a year between pistol, rifle and shotgun. That’s why it’s so funny when you see reports of people getting arrested with a 200 round ammo stash, like that’s evil.

10 posted on 09/29/2020 6:11:36 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Mr. K

Shock? It aint shock...bruh.


11 posted on 09/29/2020 6:13:16 AM PDT by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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To: marktwain

Sounds like the Seattle Dems realize it is THEIR OWN PEOPLE who are the problem. They (hopefully) are about to release the Kraken on the ‘peaceful protestors’.


12 posted on 09/29/2020 6:18:01 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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This is good for America. Armed free Americans are essential to protect freedom for the next generation. Even armed socialists are better for America than disarmed socialists counting on the thug class to do their fighting for them. Armed Americans are far more likely to recognize that they don’t need government to defend them - and by extension that they don’t need government to parent them in other ways either.


13 posted on 09/29/2020 6:20:31 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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I recently met a young woman who lives in Seattle, about 2 blocks from where the CHOP was happening.

It literally scared her sh*tless.

There WILL be an Urban Millenial Trump vote.


14 posted on 09/29/2020 6:21:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: marktwain

And that’s such a shock for what reason??????


15 posted on 09/29/2020 6:23:51 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: marktwain

I’m shocked it’s not more...


16 posted on 09/29/2020 6:25:05 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Literally?


17 posted on 09/29/2020 6:35:16 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: marktwain

“... it does much to clarify their thinking...”

Will it clarify their voting?


18 posted on 09/29/2020 6:36:21 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Seattle is Camden/Newark of the west coast.


19 posted on 09/29/2020 6:39:42 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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The final poll numbers had 51.4% of the respondents stating they would arm themselves.

That’s because the other 48.6% of the citizens are already armed, buying lots of ammo, and too busy thumbing rounds into magazines.


20 posted on 09/29/2020 6:50:22 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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