What's one issue on which you are undecided?

[B0S0X87]

For me, it's the death penalty. I flip back and forth on it every time I think about it. Part of me is furious that poor people who get inadequate counsel can be railroaded and sentenced to die, but then I see these sick fuckers who molest and kill children and I think "The human race would be better off with you guys dead."

What's your undecided issue?

[latteromden]

1. Gun control. I believe in the 2nd Amendment, but banning assault weapons

seems sensible.

[Neoma]

2. Gun control

And i can't explain why because i'm undecided on the subject.
:)

[w13rd0]

3. Energy...

...I'm undecided. Don't know whether we should regulate and monitor utility companies, or just socialize them.

[babylonsister]

4. Death penalty is right up there for me, too.

I used to support it because of all those sick fucks, but the labs in Houston are totally inadequate, or have been, and I think it's been proven innocent people have been sentenced to death because of screw-ups by the powers that be. So, I'm conflicted.

[Pork Chop]

5. Abortion

I try to avoid this issue. I acknowledge that it doesn't and shouldn't concern me what women do with their bodies, but then I ask myself "How would I like it if my mom had gotten an abortion?" I've never really made up my mind, so I just say that I don't really have an opinion.

[ultraist]

9. A better question would be: How would you like it if your mom was denied

her civil liberty of right to privacy? That's what pro choice laws are based on, right to privacy. Would you want the State to have control over your mother's body? Or should she be entitled the same rights as men?

[Pork Chop]

17. If it meant the difference between me being born or not...

See, that's why I hate this issue! I'm done.

[realisticphish]

6. combination of death penalty and guns

im more decided against death penalty, but im really not sure about guns... i think that we DO have the right to own guns, but whats the line...thats the problem, for me


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[toddzilla]

7. whether or not the human race even deserves to exist...

[Negatron]

8. I'm not undecided, but I am moderate on a few things.

Gun control, abortion, and the death penalty, to be precise. I'm pro-choice, but I am uncomfortable with elective late-term abortions, and it has nothing to do with any GOP propaganda. As far as guns, I favor reasonable measures (such as the assualt weapons ban), but regarding less extreme gun issues, I think the 2nd Amendment is fairly clear. And, finally, I think that capital punishment is appropriate in some highly egregious cases, although I'm almost always willing to compromise and accept life *without parole* as a substitute.

Other than that, I'm pretty much a textbook liberal/progressive.

[Ravy]

10. I can't figure out if Bush is a puppet of Cheney...

or pure evil in his own right.

[Sparkly]

11. Pornography that depicts violence

I'm not talking about child pornography, where the act of creating it is immoral and rightfully criminal in itself.

I'm talking about consenting adults' freedom to create materials that depict extreme violence against women, weighed against their effect on people who have a potential or tendency to inflict violence in real life. Frankly I don't know what's actually out there (I've been told "snuff" films are a myth), including in video games for kids, so this is rather abstract; and I've seen conflicting studies/arguments about whether exposure to such materials tends to mitigate, exacerbate, or have no effect on tendencies toward violence.

My gut reaction tends toward "ban it," but my rational mind says "free speech."

[Just Me]

12. Whether or not we should shoot for a parliamentary system.

'Cause, right now,...our electoral college and party system SUCKS!

[chieftain]

13. Should W, Cheney , Rummy and Condi get

10 or 20 years in prison . That's the one thing that I have yet to come to a conclusion on .

[marcologico]

14. That's a toughy. Also: is torture permissable punishment for NeoCons? nt

[cestpaspossible]

15. Paper or plastic

[independentchristian]

16. They should change it from "decided" to "opinionated"

I have an opinion on everything.

[welshTerrier2]

18. whether violent revolution will ultimately be needed

to overthrow the f**kheads who are strangling our democracy ...

[quinnox]

19. Politically speaking

I am undecided on whether democracy really is the best system of government, also I agree with the previous poster about Bush.

I was thinking about this the other day, I don't know if Bush is really smarter than he appears and acts or if he is just a empty suit being controlled by his father or others.

[usregimechange]

20. late term abotions for health nt

[cascadiance]

21. Whether California Secession proposition should be used...

as a way to deal with strong arm tactics that this administration may choose to use in the coming years. If he truely starts destroying this country, part of me thinks that this might be a necessary step at some point, but needs to be thought out well and made pragmatic rather than a knee jerk reaction. Right now there's too many other options to try first. If secession is needed, California would be the one state which could significantly challenge the feds with such a movement, so it would be our responsibility to make it happen.

If Arnie would fight it should the need to try for it arise, then perhaps a petition for a recall would be in order to force a special election where both the recall and secession proposition could be voted on.

It's a bit early for this to be looked at seriously yet, but if Arnie starts getting someone in like Blackwell in as Secretary of State replacement, we should start looking at the possibility of doing it I think. In that case we can't wait until 2006 before perhaps irreperable damage might happen to California as a blue state.

[Blue_State_Elitist]

22. Immigration

[Democrat Dragon]

23. abortion and censorship

[flaminbats]

24. Federal government's role in education and standardized tests..

Should the Federal Government use standardized tests to determine which states get money? Are standardized tests an effective means of measuring any student's progress? Would it be worse to establish a single standard or to have no standards? Would we help future generations by increasing Federal funding for education or hurt them with more government debt? Should more federal funding goto states not meeting Federal standards or those with higher standards?