by ki11ercane » Sat 04 Oct 2008, 02:57:01
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RdSnt', 'Y')ou're right, it was too personal and I apologize.
If you can show me a third party, objective analysis of Dion's tax plan then perhaps I'll concede the point. But a link to Harper? Come on.
There is nothing in the proposed gun control amendments that even remotely makes a Lee Enfield qualify. They are talking about select-fire and semi's with military modifications.
It was the Weimar government that brought in gun control 1929, to bring some stability to the country by taking the guns away from the many private armies, including the Nazi's. The Nazi's 1938 amendments were quite pointless considering they already had dictatorial control of the country.
To be honest, I would prefer a different approach. I would institute laws to make the gun manufacturers responsible. They claim the guns are perfectly safe, if handled properly, but your daughter shoots and kills her brother by accident, then there must be a design flaw in the weapon.
Ford didn't intentionally design the Pinto to explode on impact, but they were responsible for the design flaws.
For all the things that "Ditto" Harper wants to do, we only have to look south to see how miserable those same policies have worked there.
1. From September 9/2008 - the closest I can get on a multi-linked article on Dion's position on
GST.
2. I am totally a proponent to gun control, and my gun ownership is testament to that. And that alone is enough for 5,000,000 Canadians to be pissed as Dion's plans of divide and conquer Canadian Citizens the right to own firearms. His position tells those Canadians "I don't trust you, even though you are a trusted member of the community." The mere reality of being a "gun owner" requires you to be a non-criminal citizen, free of any criminal backgrounds, and to attest to your community that you are a gun owner. (when you own a gun in Canada, your neighbors can look you up) If you fall outside those guidelines, you lose your "privilege" to be a gun owner. Dion is another politician along a long line of them that still hasn't figured out that banning "legally owned guns" to "proper Canadian Citizens" regardless of the type of gun it is doesn't reduce the number of guns criminals can get or use. Bottomline, criminals don't register their guns.
Right in the Liberals bitch lecture on it's plan to rid me of my 65 year old bolt action Mosin (not semi auto or full auto) or Lee Enfield is their plan to ban all rifles with a bayonet attachment simply because "they were built with them in the first place." Same lecture will ban my pump shotgun I use for prairie chicken and goose hunting because I have a pistol grip on it because that works for me and I shoot more chickens and geese with it. And why place the "large cap magazine" comment in the same speech from the toilet when this issue is "already law" here? Again, had I been a hardened criminal, Canada would have not issued me the privilege to own firearms, yet if the Liberals have their way, myself and 5,000,000 other Canadians will be branded "Insta-Criminals."
As for the comment of one sibling killing another one accidentally, again under Canadian Law, all firearms must be properly stored (trigger locks, safes, etc.) to be owned, and again, failing to do that will have your license to own a firearm revoked. While I would LOVE to have a pistol in my nightstand with bullets in the magazine unlocked, it's simply not possible here. All firearms have to be locked up with ammo completely somewhere else. It totally defeats the purpose of "home defense" but that's not how the law is written here. By the law, we as Canadians are not allowed "home defense" like Americans are. I am still stuck having a disadvantage over the home invader that may enter armed, where I am stuck defending my family with a kitchen knife or baseball bat vs. a sawed off shotgun (which I am SURE the home invader registered) having to scramble with a trigger lock and having to go into another room to get the bullets half asleep in the dark. BUT THAT'S THE LAW IF I WANT TO BE A GUN OWNER!