Subject:
|
Re: My Gun Control Rant
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:31:44 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
329 times
|
| |
|
|
Tim Culberson wrote in message <3A55160C.9A731E80@yahoo.com>...
>
> Well...as of a couple days ago if you own guns and live in Canada and
> didn't apply for a liscence (for the guns you already own of course) you
> are now a criminal subject to fines or jail time. In 2 years if you are
> still a law-abiding citizen and you haven't registered each and every
> firearm that you own then you own prohibited property in Canada.
<opinion>
Good! Guns are freaking dangerous and the more that have their ownership
known, and the less that get owned, the better!
</opinion>
>
> Anyone with the least bit of sense who has seriously thought about this
> law realizes that it is useless in all aspects and will do absolutely
> nothing AT ALL towards it's official mandate - to reduce crimes commited
> with firearms.
It's obviously going to reduce legal sales of firearms, which obviously
reduces the number of firearms overall, which obviously reduces the number
of gun-related crimes - gee, that line of reasoning was, well, obvious. ;-)
How much sense were you exercising?
>
> Since when is a criminal going to register his/her gun?
Isn't there a flawed assumtion underlying this rhetoric?
"The only people who commit gun-related crimes are people who wouldn't have
registered them in the first place, and are therefore already criminals
anyway".
>
> What is the
> weapon of choice in almost ALL crimes involving firearms? A 30-30
> hunting rifle? A .22 single shot? No, obviously not. Most crimes are
> committed with handguns, and in order to legally own a handgun in Canada
> it must be registered anyway - this has been the case for many years.
"Almost all. Most." So it's wrong to reduce a nonzero (and probably
substantial) number of gun-related injuries and DEATHS, by forcing people to
do something as modest as register their guns? Wow, so much for human
rights.
>
> Gun control - coming soon to a country near you!
Welcome to a safer society - you'll get used to it. So have they prohibited
the personal use of fireworks in your country yet?
Cheers,
Paul
LUGNET member 164
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: My Gun Control Rant
|
| (...) <opinion> So I guess that means you want to register bows, arrows, slingshots, BB guns, pens, pencils, screwdrivers, baseball bats, golf clubs, mixing spoons, sticks, branches, etc, etc, etc... After all, these are all dangerous too - you can (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | My Gun Control Rant
|
| Well...as of a couple days ago if you own guns and live in Canada and didn't apply for a liscence (for the guns you already own of course) you are now a criminal subject to fines or jail time. In 2 years if you are still a law-abiding citizen and (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
188 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
