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Should the government should prohibit gun ownership by private citizens?No
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Should Marijuana should be legalized?Yes
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Should the death penalty be abolition?No
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Should the government control, regulate, and ban video games, including banning video game sales to teens?No
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Should we pull our troops out of Afghanistan?Eventually, but I'm guessing you mean now/soon, so no.
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Should abortion be legal or illegal?Illegal
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Should stem cell research be legal?Adult stem cell search should be legal. Embryonic should not.
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Should criminals who sexually assault and/or rape children under the age of 13 be killed, castrated, chemically castrated, or simply imprisoned and registered as a sex offender?Imprisoned... for much longer than they are now.
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Should the police get money directly from tickets or should ticket money be put in with other government spending?Depends on the needs/budget of the municipality. I honestly have no clue if ticket money would make a department self sufficient, significantly under, or significantly over.
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Should the police have a monthly/weekly quota of tickets that they must meet?No
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Should we stop Iran's nuclear weapons program?Somebody should... it'd be nice if the UN stepped in for once.
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Should we liberate North Korea and install a peaceful democratic government?Absolutely not
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Should the government give money to failing businesses in order to keep them from going bankrupt?No
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Should the government control the economy (command economy), should the government never intervene in the economy (laissez-faire), or should the government intervene in the economy only when it is necessary (mixed economy)?mixed economy leaning toward laissez-faire. There's always certain times when we may need some government intervention.
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Should lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals be given equal rights as straight individuals?Equal rights - absolutely. However, the ability to enter into a homosexual marriage is not a right.
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Should we pull our forces out of Iraq?Eventually, yes, but not all right now.
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Should gay marriage be legalized?Should be up to the states to decide.
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Should we recognize the independent nation of Kosovo?Yes
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Should we recognize the independent nation of Azerbaijan?Yes (does anybody not?
)
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Should we recognize the independent nation of Jonathanland?What the heck?
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Should we recognize the independent nation of South Ossetia?No
22.
Should Puerto Rico become a US state, become and independent country, or remain a US territory?Whatever they want... which appears to be the status quo.
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Should Guam become a US state, become and independent country, or remain a US territory?Territory
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Should American Samoa become a US state, become and independent country, or remain a US territory?Territory
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Should the US Virgin Islands become a US state, become and independent country, or remain a US territory?Territory
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Should the US Minor Outlying Islands become US states, become and independent countries, or remain US territories?Territory (normal)... they could never become a state. And independent countries would just be pointless.
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Should we make Iraq a US state?No (normal)
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Should we make Afghanistan a US state?No (normal)
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Do you think WikiLeaks should get shutdown?Any servers in the U.S. should. But we shouldn't be in the business of shutting down servers in other countries. Now, if we want to bomb the servers with hits and drive up the bandwidth usage, that's fine.
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Should the government minimize it's military spending?Where it's wasting money, yes.
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Should the government make stronger efforts to stop illegal immigration, especially from Mexico?Yes
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Should citizens of the District of Columbia be granted full voting rights?If they'd like to amend the Constitution, then yes; otherwise, no.
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Should New York City become it's own state, an independent country, or remain part of New York?Remain part of New York... what the heck?
34.
Should the United States create a North American Union with Canada? If so should we allow Mexico to join?No
35.
Should the government censor books, movies, and other entertainment mediums?No
36.
Should it be made illegal to deny that the Holocaust happened or to claim that the government is responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks?No
37.
Should the government offer free broadband internet to all citizens, like Finland does?No
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Should the government increase it's power to enforce internet laws and put a stop to internet crimes?Depends what you mean by that
39.
Should the government shutdown 4chan, just /b/, or neither?No
40.
Should 13 year olds be given universal suffrage?No (normal)
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Should the drinking age be lowered to atleast 18?Yes
42.
Should church and state remain separate?Yes
43.
Should we allow a mosque to be built next to Ground Zero?Yes
44.
Should the government offer free healthcare?No - there's no such thing as "free healthcare" lol... the money has to come from somewhere
45.
Should the government offer free college/university education?No - see above
46.
Should tobacco be made illegal?No
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Should alcohol be made illegal again?No
48.
Should the government keep secrets from and lie to it's citizens?Yes... it's a necessary part of government. Obviously this should be minimized, but there are some things people really don't need to know.
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Should classified and top secret documents be declassified?Immediately... no
50.
Should the government take greater steps to promote political awareness among teens, so they know how to make better informed political decisions?No - that's not the job of the government, but private organizations
51.
Should public schools bring back the ability to beat their students and force them to wear school uniforms?Beat students - no. Corporal punishment, maybe in some cases. Uniforms... yes.
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Should we allow weapons in space?Sure, but we should have defenses against it.
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Should the United States join the International Criminal Court?Sure
54.
Should the age of consent be lowered to 13?No
55.
Should Julian Assange be tried in court for sexually assaulting (and raping) women and for releasing top secret government and military documents to the public?If sufficient evidence is presented for the former, then yes. Yes for the latter.
56.
Should NASA work harder to accomplish goals such as making first contact, building space ships, and colonizing other planets?No... it should focus first on returning to the moon.
57.
Should NASA set-up a colony on Mars using their proposed one-way trip system?Eventually, a colony should be formed; however, NASA is not in favor of the one-way trip system, and they did not propose it.
58.
Should nuclear weapons be banned globally?No
59.
Should nuclear power be actively used in the United States?Yes
60.
Should teenagers (from 13 to 19) be given the same rights and privileges as adults?I support the status quo.
61.
Should we allow private military contractors to continue to exist?Yes; however, we generally should not use them.
62.
Should the government and military work to help stop and prevent genocides, civil wars, and other atrocities happening around the world, such as in Africa?In general, our involvement should be limited and only used when necessary.
63.
Should research into cloning be conducted?No
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Should we close the Guantanamo Bay prison?I really don't care... it doesn't matter where we hold them, as long as we hold terrorist somewhere. If we torture them here or there, it's wrong... torture shouldn't be used. But closing Guantanamo doesn't automatically mean stopping torture.
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Should Guantanamo Bay become a US state?No... what the heck? That wouldn't even be possible.
66.
Should the United States become imperialist again, but this time we make the places we conquer become permanent US states?No
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Should the world unite under a democratic world government that is just like the United States, but governs the entire world?No (normal)
