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September 5th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Well then, let the 52% choose not to have a handgun. I guess they ain’t “pro-choice” are they…seein’ they wanta impose their idea of unarmed pacifism on the other 48%.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Provided only that 52% gets to live with the consequences, it wouldn’t bother me one bit.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:58 am
England, here we come!
September 5th, 2007 at 11:43 am
What does the word “criminal” mean? This Utopian idea that criminals will comply is fantasy.
I sometimes wonder if organized crime is behind these handgun bans.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:52 am
#9 writes, “I sometimes wonder if organized crime is behind these handgun bans.”
Yes!, along with the “legalized version”…it’s at least a beneficiary
“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”-Thomas Jefferson
September 5th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Two mean comments came to mind:
52% of Canadians? That’s like, what, 400 people?
Is 52% also the percent of the population that descends from the French?
September 5th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I don’t think they have a Constitutional bill of rights in Canada… or at least not one that includes the RKBA. As I understand, they are under a parliamentary system where 51% can take away the rights of the other 49%…or, in this case, 52% taking away those of the other 48%.
But then, having that enumerated, Constitutional right here doesn’t stop or hasn’t stopped incremental democratic tyranny.
September 5th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
The scary part is that 52% of them still believe this to be a worthwhile idea while at the exact same time admitting it isn’t going to work.
It’s like going to the ER with your leg cut off and asking for a band aid, knowing damn well you’re still gonna die unless you stop the bleeding.
And there’s plenty enough of those people here in the US.
September 5th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
I sometimes wonder if organized crime is behind these handgun bans.
If I remember correctly, the Alderman most responsible for Chicago’s handgun ban was a made man in the mafia.
September 5th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Is canada even a country?
September 6th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
I believe it is a Dominion.
September 8th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
“I sometimes wonder if organized crime is behind these handgun bans.”
The first ban I know of that was enforced against white people was in Dodge City – and Wyatt Earp was the badge-wearing front man for a gang. Wyatt’s brothers collected protection money from the saloons and bordellos. Doc Holliday drew a salary for just looking so scary that he hardly ever had to pull a gun. All of them came together when shooting was needed. And the solid local citizens were happy because the cowboys and gamblers stayed out of the nice part of town. Who wasn’t happy? The cowboys coming in with the trail herds, who were systematically trimmed of their paychecks in the bad part of town, and beaten, jailed, or shot if they tried to cross into the good part, or complained about the system.
But taking their guns away as soon as possible after they arrived in town sure helped keep the badge-wearing gansters safe.
Later, in Tombstone, the Earps wound up in a conflict with the local sheriff and his supporters. (It’s not clear if the sheriff was honest or another badge-wearing gang boss – but he certainly didn’t want to let the Earps have a piece of the action.) And once again, the Earps talked the town government into passing a gun control ordinance, then they tried to enforce it against several of the sheriff’s supporters at the OK Corral.
Let me make this clear: the shootout at the OK Corral was perhaps the most famous gang war ever – and the excuse for initiating it was gun control.