Another poll - not intended as a debate, obviously because there are five issues in one topic here. I just want to see what everyone generally thinks of these five social issues.

Abortion: Pro-Choice

Gay Marriage: No civil unions or marriage. I think marriage in general is retarded if 2 people love eachother they shouldn't need papers to show it.

Gun Ownership: Legal Ownership. Just cuz.

Marijuana: Legal.

Death Penalty: For.

my views

1.pro-choice
2.legal gay-marriage
3.illegal
4.legal with significant limits (like must be over 18, etc.)
5.certain circumstances

if you want me to explain any of these i can.

I am:

Pro-choice
Pro-gay marriage
Legal marijuana
Legan guns with limits
Against the death penalty

I am nearly similar, except I'm for the death penalty under extremely special circumstances, and I think you should have added a "don't give a crap" on the Marijuana thing

Pro-life
legal
discriminalized but not legal
legal gun ownership
certain circumstances

pro-choice
legal
decriminalized but not legalized
Legal with significant limits
certain circumstances

Pro-life
Civil Unions
Legalized
I picked legal gun ownership because it was closest. Basically my view on firearms is that there should be licensing, a registry of gun owners, and a background check, and that's it.
Certain circumstances

Oh, and that's right, I have changed my stance on gay marriage in recent months, if you couldn't tell. I don't believe homosexuality is okay, but I do believe that the government should butt out of the bedroom more.

As far as the others, I have not changed my mind on abortion, I still think it is wrong regardless, I have not changed my mind on pot, it should be legalized, and I have changed my mind on the death penalty.

Can you see why my parents and the people around me look at me funny whenever I discuss my political views?

Pro-choice
Pro-marriage
Legalised
Significant Limits
For Death Penalty

I am against abortion and gay marriage because of my beliefs, I don't support marijuana because my friend was killed by a man driving high on the stuff, I'm against gun control laws being a hunter, and I believe in the death penalty in cases where the person deserves it.

Pro-Choice
Legalized Gay Marriage
Legalized
No Guns
Against Death Penalty.

Pro-choice, legal gay marriage (or legal civil unions open to both genders, which is the same thing but, weirdly, seems to attract far less outrage), torn between legalised and decriminalised, legal guns with limits, definitely against.

Countries with gun control still have hunting, you know.

BUT YOU CAN ONLY HUNT WITH GUNS!!!!

You weren't aware that this is now a world dominated by the same themes as Trey Parker.

Iirc, I *did* show you a picture of my cabinet containing six rifles, right?

pro choice
legal gay marriage
legalize weed
legal guns with strong limits
against death sentence

Pro-choice, Legal Gay Marriage, Marijuana Legalized, Legal Guns With (Very) Significant Limits, Against Death Penalty.

Pro choice
Legal gay marriage
Decriminalize weed
Legal guns, strong limits
Against death sentence

Abortion
Pro-choice - you might not be able to take full responsibility. Should always be safe anyway.


Gay marriage
Legal gay marriage - they have rights just like a man and woman getting wed.


Marijuana
Illegal - Can still cause serious damage. I suppose theres still a argument about alcohol and cigarettes. This one was difficult

Gun control
No guns - Only for police. They will be used out of proportion just like knifes.


Death penalty
Against - I believe people should suffer. They are not suffering while they're dead

Abortion: Pro-Choice.

Gay Marriage: If gay people love eachother, it's no different to a heterosexual relationship in my eyes. I'm for it.

Gun Ownership: Illegal totally. There is no need for guns at all.

Marijuana: Illegal. But this is coming from someone who thinks smoking should be illegal too, because you can ruin someone elses lungs and stuff. I don't like it.

Death Penalty: I'm for it, but only for reoffenders of murder.

I am actually pro-abortion, not just pro-choice. Population could use a significant lowering.

Not Gay Marriage but Civil Unions is fine. Marriage is more of a religious thing while civil unions are secular, legalizing marriage would create some headaches as people try to force churches to wed them.

As for Marijuana I say legalize all substances and remove age limit. Just imagine how hilarious it would be.

Legal Gun ownership, I personally would rather get shot then stabbed thank you. Although I have a full compliment of hunting crossbows at my disposal and I got a ballistic knife for Christmas so I don't need the gun for protection. Although I did avoid getting robbed one time due to my pistol.

I am certainly for the death penalty, its just so much cheaper to do, and makes more sense in every way possible. You know how much money it costs to support a single individual in a high security prison for a lifetime? And don't even talk about solitary confinement. On top of that the Death Penalty would really decrease prison violence because the biggest sentiment there is simply, "They going to put me in Prison for a another lifetime, I'm already serving 12."

Geez...people still believe in that overpopulation crap.

*Especially* because where overpopulation is actually an issue there's no need to abort children, as at least half die before they're past age one.

Abortion
Only in the case of rape or incest

Gay Marriage
Legal gay marriage

Marijuana
Illegal

Gun control
No guns

Death penalty
Against



Unless they go to prison when they're two and live for an unnaturally long time, death penalty costs more.

• Pro-choice. George Carlin made some good points about this, but I'm really not in the mood for going into it right now.
  
• Legalize gay marriage. Gays are Human Beings too (but admittedly whenever a gay man says I'm cute, It makes Me feel uncomfortable).
  
• Decriminalized but not legalized. Jail time for pot is definitely overkill. But if legalized (in My opinion), it'll be regulated by the government. Do You trust the government? I don't.
  
• Legal gun ownership. "Politicians prefer unarmed peasants." I've seen that on bumper stickers off and on over the years.
  
• Certain circumstances. Criminal's fate decided by the victim, within reason (no gas chamber for going the speed limit in the passing lane, although it's tempting at times).

Abortion: Pro-choice
Gay Marriage: Legal civil unions
Marijuana: Illegal
Gun Control: No guns
Death Penalty: Against

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXviTQZQZxM

There you go. Pretty funny while making a point too.

Death Penalty costs alot more mainly because most western Judicial systems are plagued with technicalities and loopholes. the death penalty needs some reform.

I think it's to do more with the legal benefits that come with marriage (e.g. inheritance) more than proving to other people that they love each other.

Abortion: Pro-choice
Gay Marriage: Legal Gay Marriages
Marijuana: Legal
Gun Control: Legal guns with significant limits
Death Penalty: Against/Certain circumstances Not really well enough educated on the topic.

Pro-choice
Pro-gay marriage
Legal marijuana
No Guns
Against the death penalty

Pro - Choice - I can't see any valid points in Pro - Life. Live in todays world, not that of the future.
Civil Unions only - Marriage is something executed by the church. As much as gays want it, you can't force it on them to marry a gay couple.
Legalised or completely banned - Go the full way either side, don't keep it in the middle.
No Guns - Other than law enforcement, there is no need for guns. Hunters can keep theirs locked away in a hunting shack, not in their houses.
Against Death Penalty - However, I also feel that probation should be given out less easily.

Where overpopulation is defined as more people then miles of land. I do.


Its those damn appeals. Here is how you do the death penalty correctly, pass the sentence in the morning, carry it out by lunch.

Oh please. If we put more people in the bigger areas I think you'd find we have plenty of space. Also, we've been "overpopulated" for four centuries. The concept isn't new, it's just the number gets bigger every 50 or so years. First it was 500 million people would destroy the Earth. Now it's 10 billion. Next thing you know it will be 50 billion.

Pro-choice
Pro-Gay marriage
Legalize Marijuana
Significant limits on guns
Against death penalty

If someone deserves to die, I'd rather see them go insane in solitary confinement than die an incredibly humane death with a nice last meal to go with it.

- I'm generally against abortion but I'm willing to make exceptions with regard to the mother risking death or severe, long lasting physical or mental trauma. Also, if there is a strong chance the child will be deformed and will suffer all his life in any way. I have yet to decide on rape or consensual incest.

- I'm for gay marriage. Who am I to force my religion down someone else's throat.

- I'm against marijuana. The same way I'm against other poisons like tobacco, heroine, cocaine...etc and call for their criminalisation. Otherwise, I will consider myself a hypocrite. It's purely for medical reasons and the preservation of human life.

- I support the right to guns but to an extent. No more than a handgun and there must be strict screening imposed on those trying to get a license. There are people out there actually calling for the right to bear automatic rifles for crying out loud. Why the hell do you need that much for self defence?

- And I am against the Death Penalty. No one has the right to remove a life in that manner. An eye for an eye simply isn't good enough and that reasoning is defunct. It will also leave the word blind. The life in imprisonment system is actually cheaper to maintain.

Um...that's what the civil unions option is for...


Just because some people want automatic weapons to be made legal isn't a legitimate reason to be against gun ownership. I'm in favor of gun ownership but I would place some greater restrictions on automatic and high-powered weapons. For self-defense, a Glock 17 should suffice quite well, and it's not so lethal as other weapons (hence, police carry it...as well as the Glock models 18-26).

Abortion - Pro-life. Third banner in the spoiler in my signature should explain.
Gay Marriage - Legal. I don't see why you shouldn't be allowed to marry depending on whether you're gay or straight.
Marijuana - Illegal. Although it's better than some other drugs, it still deserves to be illegal.
Gun control - Legal guns with significant limits. Legal gun ownership would cause too much violence and there is no point in making no guns when you can just have guns with significant limits.
Death Penalty - Against. I don't see whats wrong with jail.

1. Pro-Choice.
2. Legal gay marriage
3. I voted illegal, but I'm not sure on this one, don't know enough about it to properly vote.
4. No guns (in terms of regular citizens having them).
5. Against Death Penalty.

Abortion
Pro-choice

Gay Marriage
Legal gay marriage
I don't really seem anything wrong with it. It's just marriage with the same sex.

Marijuana
Illegal
Sure, it can be used as a medicine, but I think it's side effects don't really outweigh the good. Besides, it does practically the same thing as smoking, except worse (I think ) in some aspects.

Gun Control
Legal guns with significant limits

Death Penalty
Certain circumstances
If a guys kills 10 people, yes. If a person kills 3 people, maybe. If a person kills 1 or 2, maybe one or more life sentences. That's my view. And it won't only apply to murder (rape, etc.)

Definetly legalize marijuana. Too much money spent to stop it.

Pro-choice.

Legal gay marriage.

Marijuana should be decriminalized but not legalized.

Gun ownership with limits. (like this)

Pro death penalty.

Mostly liberal on the social issues.

Capital Punishment is not cheap.

the court cases for capital punishment are super lengthy and they have to go through many expensive mandatory appeals. In the end average cost for captial punishment is 13 million (differing by state)

They have to have so many court appeals because they want to make certain they're not killing an innocent live.

it's not like the middle ages where all they had to do was chop their head off.

Who said anything about destroy the world? Its just two uncomfortable, especially if you consider being close enough to your neighbor to hear his gun when he hunts as being too close. People always crowd in the nice areas.




An appeal without new evidence to back it up is a pure waste of money. Set the execution for a week and give them that long to appeal it. I would actually back life imprisonment if we had the inmates working hard labor to pay for their own up-keep, or were allowed to use them as human guinea pigs, basically the complete removal of human rights suits me so we can make some use out of them. That would be fine then.

And look on the other side of things, if being guilty of killing someone almost certainly assured a person that they would be executed, think how much money in court fees would be saved by

1. People actually considering murder too risky. (I'm looking at gang members and prison violence, in fact prosecutes when prosecuting prison murder fight to get perpetrators tried in a death penalty state just so they have a real penalty to give.)

2. People committing suicide due to depression.

And thats another thing, when a guy in prison tries to off-himself why the hell do we stop him, in fact why do we go through the trouble of preventing their suicide, when they are dead its less money being wasted. Depression is a sign of prison working.

Sometimes I feel our judicial system is engineered to simply be expensive and utterly ineffective. Too much politics. Too much delay. J

Justice must be swift else it is surely worthless.

To you, it's a good thing to kill someone a week after the sentence, and if not, to remove his rights and make him a lab rat? This is a hypocritical way to deal with murderers and this revenge mentality cripples society.

A week is long enough to write a will I think. And its not about revenge, its just a total waste of space and money to put them in life imprisonment. Not like they have any value whatsoever after they go to prison.

And what if, on the day after they're dead, the prosecutor says "oh yeah, we screwed that up...turns out he's innocent."

I support it, but only in the case of ruthless and vicious murderers, I.E Ted Bundy.

Why don't we just incinerate a person as soon as they get a terminal illness as well? After all, they're just wasting space and money in the health service.

That argument works no matter how long you wait, 30 years after execution and then they go "Whoops! We should have waited 30 more years."

Politics is why, I doubt most people would be able to swallow that, especially since there are always, "New treatments" to try. Even without new treatments its just bad politics.

Demon Jelly, the global population doubles about every 50 years.

It does now. It wasn't in the late 18th century, however (when the concept of overpopulation was first beginning to take root).

1- Only in case of rape. Theres birth control out there if you really cant have a kid in your life.
2- No legal gay marriage.
3- Legalize. Obviously though, people must be responsible their behaviour while under the influence- just like alcohol.
4- Legalize with limits.
5- Against. Just to many people who are executed are later found to be innocent. It also costs much more to sentence someone to death than to imprison them for life in most cases.