Fandom High Weapons Poll

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[OOC: ATTN: This is non-binding, non-official (although some official types thought it might not be a bad idea), and just to see what's actually what out there in the school. Vala's name is only on it because we needed a paid account (I'm so weak!) to post from.

(Remember: principalconnor rules this place with her Scary Iron Fist Of Doom, so what she ultimately says is what actually goes.)

Please answer IN CHARACTER (As a FH issue it's locked to FH members, sorry Townies!) ]

ETA: Question two, where it reads "magic users", it should read "people with magical/superpowers/mutantpowers/etc."

ETA2: Any mis-votes can be fixed by just "re-voting". It will only count your last answers.

ETA3: Anything I (aka_vala) posted in comments below with the "FH ate my life" icon are OOC, and my mistake in spacing the fact that comments are IC. My bad, please ignore. :(

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Comments

[bluemanoncampus.livejournal.com]

Many, if not most of the worlds that we the students come from have mandatory handgun registration that also requires the owner to have a firearms proficiency license. As I understand it, the licensing process takes less than a day and I see no logical reason why those with firearms and blades would be averse to proving their competency.

As for registration of innate abilities, I agree with both Chihaya and Miss Pride that said registration smacks solidly of discrimination. In my world, millions of "baseline" people were massacred because they were perceived as being different from, and therefore inferior to, their murderers. Currently, mutants such as myself are so feared and persecuted that the President of the United States authorized a program to build a series of robots specifically designed to identify mutants without their knowledge or consent and, if the government deemed it necessary, assasinate them without the benefit of due process. I personally rescued a young mutant from one such attack wherein the multistory-tall robot nearly destroyed a city block in Manhattan in the process of attacking a fully-populated bus that held said mutant.

In my experience, the kind of discrimination and registration that is being proposed leads inevitably to mass persecution with a high probability of secondary casualties.