Re: Remember Y2K?
BDR529
> Green Turtle wrote
>> In fact the parallels between the two issues are very similar.
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> What do you know? You're a socialist Canadian who gets socialist health care.
>
> I hear that Canada would be like Afghanistan if you didn't have oil.
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> Canada is so radically left that you aren't even allowed to pack a gun on a trip
> to the grocery store or a bar.
Oh, wow, that's really what you need in life, a gun.
Q
Catoni
>"What do you know? You're a socialist Canadian who gets socialist health care.
>I hear that Canada would be like Afghanistan if you didn't have oil.
>Canada is so radically left that you aren't even allowed to pack a gun on a trip
>to the grocery store or a bar."
Reply:
Just because he's a Canadian doesn't mean
he's a socialist. I'm a Canadian, and I'm a libertarian who believes
in individual freedom and personal responsibility.
And yeah, you can own guns up here if you are willing to do
all the paperwork, take the firearms courses, and go through all the
legal crap. Rifles, shotguns. Hanguns too. It's just that up here in
Canada, they check you out more then they do down there in the States,
and we have to fill out a bit more paperwork, and take pistol safety
courses. For handguns like a nice Sturm-Ruger or Glock or what-ever,
you go through a bit more paperwork then for a long gun. If you buy a
handgun up here, you have to have it registered.
Catoni
>"What do you know? You're a socialist Canadian who gets socialist health care.
>I hear that Canada would be like Afghanistan if you didn't have oil.
>Canada is so radically left that you aren't even allowed to pack a gun on a trip
>to the grocery store or a bar."
Reply:
Point one... Just 'cause he's a Canadian doesn't
mean he's a socialist. I'm a Canadian and I'm a libertarian who
believes in individual freedom and personal responsibility for all law-
abiding citizens, and having a givernment controlled with free
elections, short terms of office, and checks and balances to prevent
government from getting too big.
Point two..we can own guns up here in Canada if we are law-abiding
citizens. We just have to take firearms safety courses and do a lot of
paperwork.
For hunting with our rifles and shotguns, we take hunter saftety
courses, and write an exam in order to get our hunting licence, and
register them. But it looks like registering of long arms might get
dropped and done away with now. The government figures it's been a
waste of money. As long as you have a weapons permit, and sign the
store papers when you buy your rifle, they already know you have
firearms anyways.
We get a lot of Americans who come up here to hunt. I think that
most of them would know about that.
For our handguns, we take the pistol courses, register our
handguns, and join a gun club. Of course for a handgun, they check you
out more and dig into your background. But yes, you can even own a
nice stainless-steel Sturm Ruger .45, or a nice 9mm Glock up here in
Canada. You just have to go about it legally and follow the rules
like with anything else.
Fred Williams
You see in Canada, we don't need a gun to go to a grocery store or a bar.
I have no need for a gun to go anywhere.
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Regards,
Fred
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