Should Missourians have to pay back unemployment benefits they received by mistake?

Asked by ABC 17 News

229 Votes

Should Missourians have to pay back unemployment benefits they received by mistake?

57%

Yes Yes

43%

No No

57%

Yes

Gov. Mike Parson has said his administration wants Missourians who received extra unemployment benefits by mistake to pay back the money. He says keeping the money is akin to ta... Show More

Gov. Mike Parson has said his administration wants Missourians who received extra unemployment benefits by mistake to pay back the money. He says keeping the money is akin to taking it from someone else. Show Less

2 Comments

Paul Prevo

If you deceived your way into benefits you should pay them back to the rightful people - the taxpayer.

Sun, 14 Feb 2021 09:49:49 -0500

Harry D

Just turn the question around to find the correct answer. If you paid too much in taxes should the government pay your money back? Yes. Most people know right from wrong they just have no fiscal discipline.

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 07:02:28 -0500

43%

No

Legislators have criticized the approach and filed bills to keep the state from collecting on overpayments. They say it would be unfair to require people struggling financially ... Show More

Legislators have criticized the approach and filed bills to keep the state from collecting on overpayments. They say it would be unfair to require people struggling financially because of the pandemic to pay the money back. Show Less

3 Comments

Randy Wheeler

If someone receives extra benefits because of a mistake by the State, the person should not have to repay. However if the overpayment is the result of fraud by the person, of course they shou have to pay it back.

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:53:19 -0600

Patricia Boggs

Not their fault they were put out of s job

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:22:52 -0600

Sue Evans

These people had no idea the money was received in error and use the money to survive. Due to the confusion caused by the government in addressing the pandemic, no one seems to know what is or was suppose to happen The state was ultimately responsible to oversee and they failed.

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:30:34 -0600

Should concealed guns be allowed on public transportation?

Asked by ABC 17 News

321 Votes

Should concealed guns be allowed on public transportation?

62%

Yes Yes

38%

No No

62%

Yes

A Missouri proposal would allow concealed weapons on public transportation. The bill has passed the house and is working its way through the Senate.

A Missouri proposal would allow concealed weapons on public transportation. The bill has passed the house and is working its way through the Senate. Show Less

5 Comments

Max DeYoung

Because it is in the 2nd Amenmet.

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 12:06:15 -0500

HelenHighwater

A person entrusted with a permit to conceal an carry is your friend. The answer is so obvious I don't know why this is even a question.

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:11:21 -0500

Harry Edwards

public is just that. public!

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:47:48 -0500

Randel Hearne

The transportation authorities have not been able to protect us so we ought to be able to do it ourselves. Things are only get worse in regards to our personal security as our country spirals downward.

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 06:24:51 -0500

Will Mason

In public is the point. No one needs a gun in private. Public transport is a target of mass shooters.

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 05:36:57 -0500

38%

No

Concealed weapons have been banned on public transportation. Those who support keeping the ban say it's a safety issue.

Concealed weapons have been banned on public transportation. Those who support keeping the ban say it's a safety issue. Show Less

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Asked by ABC 17 News

2538 Votes

Do you support more gun regulations?

18%

Yes Yes

82%

No No

18%

Yes

Another mass shooting was reported Thursday, this time in a Texas workplace. The shooting happened just hours after President Joe Biden unveiled his plan to tighten gun regulati... Show More

Another mass shooting was reported Thursday, this time in a Texas workplace. The shooting happened just hours after President Joe Biden unveiled his plan to tighten gun regulations. Show Less

12 Comments

Bill Glover

Gun worship is about human sacrifice on the altar of power and profit. Anyone who tells you anything different is selling something.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:25:23 -0500

Supporters of ownership of any gun imaginable always leave out of their constitution arguments the part about "well-regulated". They also, forget the militia part. It seems clear that our forefathers had in mind that citizens would act as a militia before we had a National Guard.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:14:27 -0500

Stuart Singer

In no other western industrialized country in the world is there such a disgraceful absence of firearms control that is responsible for so much killing as there is in the United States. Even the Heller decision by the SCOTUS approved of government controls.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:48:20 -0500

Hi Snowpack

There is nothing about 99.9 percent of the gun nuts in this country that could possibly be defined as a "a well regulated Militia". The gun situation in this country is the exact opposite.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 09:42:38 -0500

Adam Schrader

Anyone should be allowed the right to own a firearm. 1 pistol type and 1 rifle type. Nothing semi automatic or fully automatic. Nobody needs those weapons. Not for hunting or protection.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 09:30:46 -0500

Adam Schrader

Every other type of firearm other than pistol, rifle. And shot guns are logical fir protection and hunting. No other gun type is meant for this. They need to ban every type of assault weapon and ammunition for them. Enough innocent people are getting killed

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:27:45 -0400

JoeyMac

What about the sniper types, and the shotgun types, and the crew-served type, and the drive-by type, and the explodey type, and the armor piercing type? Why do you discriminate against so many gun types? Why are you such a hoplophobe?

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:06:19 -0400

Kay Fay

Guns are weapons. They're too easily gotten by people who shouldn't have guns. There's no reason for many of the semi automatic and automatic weapons being sold except for to kill multiple people. No need and high risk. Let's know who are buying guns in mass. The do do to pass them onto criminals.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 06:56:00 -0500

Harry D

Transfering guns to criminals is already illegal. Unauthorized people even trying to buy guns is illegal, Trump inforced this law, past Dem admins have not. Most shootings in this country are black on black, Dems are OK with this since it keeps blacks down and on the Dem plantation.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 08:46:08 -0400

Co Lin

Because people are not as mature and responsible as weapons require. They kjust aren't. We have to regulate the use of motor vehicles, too. Grow up, yahoos.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:54:35 -0400

Rick Brunson

Assault weapon civilian related crimes have become a pandemic.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:26:37 -0400

Gail Beebe

I don't think a reasonable person needs to own a military weapon. I can understand the person who wants a handgun or rifle. The NRA encourages people to collect guns. The NRA should be held accountable for the bullshit they spread.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:23:37 -0500

John Nickerson

Our society doesn't benefit from citizens with assault weapons and there are people that have demonstrated they shouldn't be in possession of any type of gun, certainly not weapons of war.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 10:39:18 -0400

Fuk Joe

What is the benefit of alcohol? We should ban that too.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:12:18 -0400

82%

No

Calls for more gun regulations are met with arguments that gun ownership is a fundamental American right enshrined in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Calls for more gun regulations are met with arguments that gun ownership is a fundamental American right enshrined in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Show Less

37 Comments

Anthony Rinaldi

Gun control is misogynist, racist, and classist. I will never support such evil legislation.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 09:43:44 -0400

Scuba Steve

2.5 MILLION defensive uses annually vs. <400 deaths from ALL types of rifles. That's fewer than those killed by hands & feet. Ask yourself who benefits from making citizens powerless in a nation with increasing authoritarian control, militarized police, and NSA surveillance. And who owns the media.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 10:08:58 -0400

Michael Leninsky

The gun regulations do not work. They attack the law abiding citizen. They need to concentrate on the criminals that use them in a violent nature and not the ones using to protect themselves. Or hunt for their food.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 09:32:47 -0400

Steve TheBmann

There are already plenty of laws in place. Criminals don't obey laws. Guns are not the problem.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 07:53:53 -0400

JoeyMac

Guns are already one of THE most regulated items in America. It's impossible to commit a crime with a gun without breaking several existing laws in the process... will 1 or 2 more laws stand in the way of gun crime when tens of thousands of gun laws did not? Just enforce the laws we already have.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:02:00 -0400

Rick Lanicek

We don't need more gun laws. We need stiffer penalties for committing a crime with a gun. Might as well ban spoons to combat obesity and the health care crisis.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 12:02:52 -0400

phil hopkins

Dem run cities are a health hazard see top 20 most violent USA cities are democrat led and until defund the police and no bail laws are gone they are getting worse.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 09:43:42 -0400

Joe McGinnis

The government is taking away our rights one by one. The 2nd amendment SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED UPON.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 09:38:18 -0400

Janet Cierpiot Lampe

No Criminals will still have guns

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 09:25:55 -0400

Chris Bond

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:37:09 -0400

Michael Pietrzak

Shall not be infringed

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:31:43 -0400

The #ForeverTrumper Mad Embalmer 💪🇺🇸

The constitutional right to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT be infringed.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:30:18 -0400

Sandra White

As a responsible gun owner, I think the real problem is not with regulating who can own them. If I can defend myself and my family, I stand less of a chance of becoming a statistic. Open carry is a great way to deter crime.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:49:41 -0400

Edgar Alain Flotte

Murder is illegal, criminals do not follow the law. This will put law abiding citizens in disadvantage. Guns will be still be able to be made illegally to commit illegal crimes

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:48:49 -0400

James Frantz

Law abiding citizens aren't the issue and neither are the guns. The problem continues to be criminals committing heinous acts of violence with indiscriminate abandon.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:46:42 -0400

Jack Atherton

Because I believe in the US Constitution.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:59:27 -0400

Ben Burckhartt

The 2nd amendment wasn't given to keep the people regulated but to regulate the Gov't over the people. I'd vote yes to regulate our Govt's weapons and our military empire

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:59:01 -0400

James Blount

Additional regulations do nothing to stop criminals, obviously a person planning on robbing and murdering someone is not going to be concerned if the weapon he uses is illegal. It only disarms law abiding citizens leaving them vulnerable to criminals who disregard these ineffective laws.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:55:26 -0400

Buckeye

It would be just the beginning

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:22:14 -0400

Thomas S

The Feds don't enforce the laws we already have, why would we want more do nothing, feel good laws? None of his proposals would have prevented any of the recent mass shootings. By definition criminals don't care if it's against the law, think somebody about to commit murder cares about Joe's rules?

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:19:15 -0400

73_ Easting

Most proposals punish the wrong people. Assault weapons can a tiny percentage (less than 1%) of gun deaths annually. We need crime fighting regulations that interrupt gang-related cycles of violence, properly hold people who use crimes accountable (e.g. automatic jail terms), social changes.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:03:58 -0400

Ed Chaney

Already thousands of gun laws across the country. The cities with the strictest gun laws are also the ones with the highest violent crime rates. They blame easy access to firearms in neighboring cities, yet those cities don't have the crime rate they have. Figure it out.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:56:34 -0400

Sum-Ting Wong

not one of the suggested restrictions would have prevented these crimes. This is like confiscating minivans and hatchback cars because some crazy people intentionally run people over with convertables.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:39:26 -0400

William Wolf

Criminals do not obey gun laws, murder is a crime, we need to get to the root cause of why people do this.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:35:55 -0400

thedukelsu

shall not be infringed

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:26:57 -0400

Vince Miles

Biden has dementia.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:16:54 -0400

James Miles

I'm not willing to trade any of my rights for anything, let alone the perception of safety.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:02:05 -0400

Robert Gardner

Because none of the gun control measures of the past have made any difference as seen in places with the highest violence typically have the most draconian gun regulations. There is zero correlation with how newer gun control regulations will, or could, prevent any of the tragedies of the past.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 12:54:53 -0400

Bastardo927

Criminals do not obey laws. Passing more will do NOTHING to actually stop gun violence.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 12:41:04 -0400

Harry Edwards

we need to enforce the ones we have!

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 12:35:56 -0400

Fran Schmitt

Criminals don't care how many "restrictions" law abiding citizens have. If they want the gun, they will get it. All these regulations do is keep guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 12:06:48 -0400

Ed Franz

Cuz communists murder unarmed citizens

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 22:36:21 -0500

Max DeYoung

I believe in Freedom, not Socialism

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 23:06:19 -0500

Crash Test Dhimmi

We need to focus on actually ENFORCING the gun control laws we actually have. Only 4% of background check violations actually get prosecuted. It blows mind, how the left screams for more laws, but refuses to enforce the ones they already have.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 21:49:50 -0400

Milton Contella

Because of the binary choice offered, I could not express my nuanced thoughts on the subject so I opted for the extreme.

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 09:38:20 -0500

Should Missourians have to pay back unemployment benefits they received by mistake?

57% Yes Yes

43% No No

57% Yes

43% No

Should concealed guns be allowed on public transportation?

62% Yes Yes

38% No No

62% Yes

38% No

Do you support more gun regulations?

18% Yes Yes

82% No No

18% Yes

82% No

57%

Yes Yes

43%

No No

57%

Yes

43%

No

62%

Yes Yes

38%

No No

62%

Yes

38%

No

18%

Yes Yes

82%

No No

18%

Yes

82%

No