# Opinion Poll: what downsides do you think restricting guns have? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 16, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinion-poll-what-downsides-do-you-think-restricting-guns-have/848047 "2020-02-16T21:46:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 49
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinion-poll-what-downsides-do-you-think-restricting-guns-have/848047/49 "2020-02-19T06:03:15Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > But will we further empower it? > > Aren’t most people hostile to gun control already republicans? of the ones who aren’t, do you think they’ll switch over and become republicans? Do you know which “candidate” has won almost every single Presidential election? I’m speaking of the candidate who beat Reagan in the 1984 “landslide.” **Did.Not.Vote.** Did.Not.Vote even edged out LBJ (barely) in the 1964 landslide. American elections are not about changing people’s minds. The people too stupid to pick a Party are going to vote based on hair style, or Facebook jokes. The reason not to get gun nuts riled up, is NOT the fear that they may stop voting rationally — that’s not an option. **It’s the fear they may _vote at all_.** --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinion-poll-what-downsides-do-you-think-restricting-guns-have/848047)._