C’mon, Irishman. That would only be so if one of the regulations would be as you say. I’m pretty sure support for your regulation would be in the minority.
But if you voted “no”, and there were no regulations, you could indeed give your 4 year old any gun you wish.
You might note that there is regulation right now, but the state isn’t handing out guns to kids.
No, what I have in mind that if one thinks regulation is good, one votes (in the poll) “yes”. If no, vote “no”.
Sorry, in my above post “mangeorge said” inside the quote isn’t supposed to be there. I deleted part of Irishman’s post but left that behind. I previewed, I really did. Gettin’ old. 
That be my point. If the only limitation I want is that anyone under 4 cannot own a gun, otherwise everything goes, that is “yes, I want regulation”. I’m fairly certain there are a vast majority who want some regulation. Even if that regulation is “minors can’t buy guns without their parents’ permission”. That’s a regulation, a limitation.
So as I said, “Yes, I want regulation” is so broad as to be meaningless. Of course the vast majority of voters want some regulation, the argument is over how much (a smidgeon, or whole hog). Saying you can only have some or none doesn’t really do much of anything, because all the people who want no regulation and get outvoted can just switch to “Fine, I DO want regulation, now let’s argue over how much. I vote for nobody under 4 can own a gun, everyone else can own anything they like.”
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Guys, starting a debate about gun control in this thread isn’t really suitable for ATMB. If you want to engage in a discussion about gun control itself, start another thread in GD, please.
Colibri
But this, right here, isn’t about regulation. It’s only about a poll about regualtion and comments about one’s vote on that poll.
If you’re talking about me’n ol’ Irishman, we’re talking about polling, and whether we can have a poll without comments. Gun control is an example of a poll. At least I thought it was. Still, I guess we were debating polling. 
I’l backtrack and see.
Peace,
mangeorge
You might have started out that way, but your subsequent posts have an awful lot of side discussion about gun-related issues.
Not really. That’s what you get for speed-reading, you miss a lot.
But, I’ll stop. My finger’s tired anyway. 
(LSMFT) became “Let’s stop, my finger’s tired” back in the day.
Yeah, we did kinda go too far into a specific case.
So, who would I talk to about enabling polling in GD, if I were so inclined?
I mean this in an entirely sincere and non-snarky way, but might it not be best if the suggestions regarding board policy that are posted in ATMB garnered responses from the appropriate mods/admins? Maybe it’s just that I haven’t noticed, but in my experience that has tended not to be the case.
The idea was discussed – we tend to believe that polling is an opinionator function and therefore is appropriate for IMHO but is not at all appropriate for GD.
Debating is more than giving your opinion.
Opinionating is not debating.
The two areas can overlap somewhat but we really want to make a serious distinction between the two.
So if you wish a poll about something, it goes in IMHO. If that poll turns into a discussion that runs into debate, then it’s a GD situation.
It’s possible that a topic can run in both forum areas at the same time, as is appropriate.
So you guys are, like, determined to have Czarcasm’s head explode by mid-May?
Apparently it’s a settled matter, but I want to stress again that the idea that a poll in any way inhibits debate is totally wrong and backwards. Obviously, we’re unable to STOP people from debating poll topics, hence the issue at hand.
Thanks for the response, though.
This is ambiguous and could be construed as sarcastic. Replace with: “I do appreciate the response, however.”