Stan R wrote:
> On Apr 8, 9:52 am, Karel Kriz <ka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article
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>> kujebak <kuje...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> On Apr 7, 2:25 pm, Karel Kriz <ka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> In article
>>>> <187c7e99-3ca6-44bc-a461-18ff3f86c...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> kujebak <kuje...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> On Apr 7, 12:30 pm, Karel Kriz <ka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>> In article
>>>>>> <77dc2f86-df3e-49a9-88ad-9a9facad3...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>> kujebak <kuje...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/49nyj8
>>>>>> Is this a good time for someone to pry the rifle from his cold,
dead
>>>>>> hands?
>>>>>> ...a mediocre actor and a poseur. No greatness there...
>>>>>> K
>>>>> Did you know he was married for over 60 years?
>>>>> To the same woman I might add.
>>>>> That's quite remarkable in this day and age,
>>>>> wouldn't you say? Especially for an actor, and
>>>>> a ... whatever ;-)
>>>> Marriage longevity is just one brownie point! Deduct two brownie
points
>>>> for being the front man for the NRA, deduct two brownie points for
The
>>>> Planet of The Apes, deduct two brownie points for Earthquake....and
on
>>>> and on. The final count is in the negative, I am afraid.
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>>> You got something against guns in the hands of decent,
>>> upstanding citizens Heston epitomized?
>> I don't particularly care for guns regardless who has them. Firing a
>> semi automatic rifle at defenseless cans of Coors in the desert is not
>> an orgasmic experience for me.
>>
>> Misreading and misinterpreting the Second Amendment hardly qualifies as
>> "decent and upstanding". But I understand why NRA feels that everyone
>> should be armed to the teeth. It all works so well. We have one of the
>> lowest murder rates in the world and our prisons are half empty most of
>> the time with the guards twiddling their thumbs with nothing to do.
That
>> makes us the envy of the world. The logic of "more guns - less crime"
is
>> a clear winner.
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> The numbers of incarcerated people in US jails seem to have more to do
> with the ridiculous "war on drugs" than with anything else.
>
> The link between easy availability of guns and violence is by no means
> clear, either.
>
> I am personally no fan of guns, but at the same time I would
> acknowledge that there exist countries with higher per-person gun
> owner****p and significantly lower murder rates than the US
> (Switzerland, for example), while on the other hand there are also
> countries with strict gun controls in place and yet suffering from
> relatively high rates of gun-related violence. According to this
> source, Canada is a case in point:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4tu9ss
>
> The article may perhaps not be entirely correct, but there are plenty
> of sources that paint a similar story. As they say - where there is
> smoke, there is fire.
The article is rather old but otherwise correct.
Once government criminalizes gun owner****p, only criminals will have guns.
For all practical purposes handguns are already banned in Canada. One can
only own a handgun if one is a target shooter or a collector. In both
cases one is not allowed to store the gun loaded. In fact, the gun must
be
stored in one locked compartment and the ammunition in another locked
compartment in another room. The gun cannot be taken out of the its
compartment for any other reason than a trans****t to and from
a shooting range or a gun collector's exhibition. In case of trans****t,
ammunition must be stored in a locked box. To carry a gun in public one
would need a special permit which is not easy to obtain. One would have
to
prove that the gun is absolutely necessary for one's personal safety.
Last
time I checked, only 8 people in Ontario had such permit, all of them
involved in testifying against notorious gang members in open courts and
consequently subjected to serious and verifiable death threats.
So, in light of these facts, current calls for "hand guns ban" is nothing
more than political hypocrisy.
Cheers
Frank
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