Gun Control is Completely Useless.
- Thread starter Colpy
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Alfred E Neuman is the character in the Mad magazines. Sorrt of like "dog" in the "Footrot Flats" mags of Australia and that sort of thing. http://www.dccomics.com/mad/
I can see a chart like the one you've created...with some editing being something that's akin to the posters I've seen warning potential nastys that the owner is armed never mind the dog...
Just re-arrange the wording and supposing the interloper could read it and realize it's an "in-house" maxim illustrating the thought process behind it.... "If I break in here and there's somone home...someone who's prepared to shoot me protecting their loved ones....maybe I'll check out the empty house across the street...
probably, they have a much deeper sense of protection when it comes to kids than we do.i am a dedicated turner-of-the-other-cheek. maybe that would change if it were my kids i was protecting. something tells me though that my wife would beat the **** out of anyone before i'd even started to think
Nope. I am pretty wary and unless someone catches me sitting on the throne, well prepared. Um, not paranoid, but cautious.
I know, which is why my thought of holding up a chart for an intruder to read was funny to me. Sorry, I should have explained in more detail.
i see. Your avatar is still creepy. And i still have no idea who he is. I hate it. lol
That better?
Was going to put in a pic of me but I thought if Alfred creeped you out, I had better not.
Was going to put in a pic of me but I thought if Alfred creeped you out, I had better not.
I will certainly do my best, with the following disclaimer:
ANY ADVICE GIVEN IS WORTH EXACTLY WHAT YOU PAID FOR IT!
I think you can mail any legal firearm part (anything EXCEPT the receiver, which is the actual firearm, according to the law) without restriction. That would include legal magazines, meaning 10 rd or less for handgun, 5 rd or less for centre-fire rifle. Just do yourself a favour, and don't tell the posties what is in the parcel: they've been known to express some anti-gun feelings before by trashing merchandise, or simply refusing to handle it.
As for pre-ban magazines, (listen carefully) in Canada, THERE IS NO SUCH THING! All pre-ban magazines have been destroyed, or else have been permanently blocked to the gov't approved number of rounds, or they are prohibited weapons, leaving anyone in possession in dire legal straits.
Now, in BC some time ago there was a legal wrangle over a restricted rifle with 30 round magazines. Those mags were disassembled. The judge, fed up with the prosecution (one would suspect) ruled that the metal body, floorplate and spring were NOT a magazine. (This is from my increasingly foggy memory, BTW, see disclaimer above.)
If you got busted with disassembled 30 round mags, this case would be a precedent to fight on: GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!
Thanks Colpy
I was reading a buy and sell feature on the Firearms Canada website and saw someone with pre-ban mags telling folk he had to mail them disassembled...since I suppose the logic is that they're not magazines...they're "parts"....
I had a Ruger 10/22 with a thirty round magazine but got rid of it a long time ago. My competition pistol is fully legal with 10 round mags, but it all seems rather silly to me...
I was reading a buy and sell feature on the Firearms Canada website and saw someone with pre-ban mags telling folk he had to mail them disassembled...since I suppose the logic is that they're not magazines...they're "parts"....
I had a Ruger 10/22 with a thirty round magazine but got rid of it a long time ago. My competition pistol is fully legal with 10 round mags, but it all seems rather silly to me...
Yeah.
there is no magazine capacity limit on rimfire rifles.............only handguns and centre fire semi auto rifles.
controlling firearms will never do anything except make gun control advisors happy.
I don't own a gun..likely never will since I don't hunt..that is unless the bears start going through my garbage
However, trying to stop an illegal activity with more laws is a stupid as trying to dry the floor by throwing a pail of water on it.
I have friends and neighbours how have guns, and I will never feel threatened by any of them. Some like the craftmenship, some hunt, some are farmers and need to prtect their livestock. If some moranic 17 yearold inner city kid thinks his respect..(I use that term loosely) had been "dis'd" he will get a gun and restore his honour..as dumb as it is. Less bullet sales, restricted access, barrel size etc etc whatever..will not stop it..or for that matter even slow it..as long as a cheap 100.00 U.S. gun can be bought on a Canadian street for 400 bucks it will happen. Thats quite a good profit, and since we would the gun running 17 year old in jail for 6 months there's not a lot of risk to this huge return...
I don't own a gun..likely never will since I don't hunt..that is unless the bears start going through my garbage
However, trying to stop an illegal activity with more laws is a stupid as trying to dry the floor by throwing a pail of water on it.
I have friends and neighbours how have guns, and I will never feel threatened by any of them. Some like the craftmenship, some hunt, some are farmers and need to prtect their livestock. If some moranic 17 yearold inner city kid thinks his respect..(I use that term loosely) had been "dis'd" he will get a gun and restore his honour..as dumb as it is. Less bullet sales, restricted access, barrel size etc etc whatever..will not stop it..or for that matter even slow it..as long as a cheap 100.00 U.S. gun can be bought on a Canadian street for 400 bucks it will happen. Thats quite a good profit, and since we would the gun running 17 year old in jail for 6 months there's not a lot of risk to this huge return...
L. Gilbert
The tragedy is that Canadian law has a fairly broad arsenal of legislative powers that are "dumped-away" and plea-bargained away...
Lawyers defending a criminal who's been convicted of firearms related/involved criminality, should be required to talk with the victims families and in some circumstances, re-pay the "Crown" for the expense of their ambulance chasing.
How about, you're convicted of the criminal use of a firearm and you lose the right to drive a car, vote in elections and serve an automatic sentence of five years?
If you're convicted of a firearms ofense (personal injury to another person), for a second time, life....
The tragedy is that Canadian law has a fairly broad arsenal of legislative powers that are "dumped-away" and plea-bargained away...
Lawyers defending a criminal who's been convicted of firearms related/involved criminality, should be required to talk with the victims families and in some circumstances, re-pay the "Crown" for the expense of their ambulance chasing.
How about, you're convicted of the criminal use of a firearm and you lose the right to drive a car, vote in elections and serve an automatic sentence of five years?
If you're convicted of a firearms ofense (personal injury to another person), for a second time, life....
I got into this stuff again.....surprize, surprize.........and I got looking for the US state with the slackest gun handgun laws.
What do you think?
Texas? Arizona? Montana?
Nope....Vermont.
From the Brady anti-gun site:
http://www.bradycampaign.org/legislation/state/viewstate.php?st=vt
No waiting period either....no magazine capacity limits....no assault weapon bans.......a resident of Vermont? want a handgun and a 30 round capacity semi-auto rifle? Over 21? walk into a gun shop and put your money down. want to carry the handgun concealed? Buy a box of ammo, load'er up, and drop it in your pocket. Perfectly legal.
So Vermont residents shop downtown, wading knee deep in blood and corpses, shouting to drown out the sounds of gunfire......right/
Nope. Vermont is number 46 out of 50 states in the amount of crime, over 33% lower than the national average, and the violent crime rate is a full 67% lower than the national average..........
How about murder? Vermont had a 2006 population of 629,000 In 2006, and in 2007 there were 12 murders in Vermont (both years) That is a rate of 1.92 per 100,000.......exactly the same as the Canadian murder rate......
Interesting.
What do you think?
Texas? Arizona? Montana?
Nope....Vermont.
From the Brady anti-gun site:
http://www.bradycampaign.org/legislation/state/viewstate.php?st=vt
No waiting period either....no magazine capacity limits....no assault weapon bans.......a resident of Vermont? want a handgun and a 30 round capacity semi-auto rifle? Over 21? walk into a gun shop and put your money down. want to carry the handgun concealed? Buy a box of ammo, load'er up, and drop it in your pocket. Perfectly legal.
So Vermont residents shop downtown, wading knee deep in blood and corpses, shouting to drown out the sounds of gunfire......right/
Nope. Vermont is number 46 out of 50 states in the amount of crime, over 33% lower than the national average, and the violent crime rate is a full 67% lower than the national average..........
http://www.nicic.org/Features/StateStats/?State=vt
How about murder? Vermont had a 2006 population of 629,000 In 2006, and in 2007 there were 12 murders in Vermont (both years) That is a rate of 1.92 per 100,000.......exactly the same as the Canadian murder rate......
Interesting.
I only have one thought on this subject- Law abiding citizens have to register-But I didn't see a line up of gang members down at the registry, If it wasn't such a hassle I would probably have a gun in my night stand. One should be allowed to protect themselves without going thru miles of red tape.