Canadian Gun Control Fails

TSRA ^ | 06/15/2004 | John R. Lott Jr.

[TXnMA]

Where can I join?

My private range is almost completed and ready to go operational...

[TXnMA]

We have nothing to fear from Canadians. They subcontract all their defense work to the US.

Not quite so. IIRC, the superb fire control system for the main gun in our M1 Abrams tank is/was Canadian...

[Old Professer]

Adjusted for demographics?

[Old Professer]

Tolerance is not a conditioned response.

Or, as the Cryptoqoute had it:

"The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good." Horace Mann.

[Old Professer]

Cryptquote; I need a voiceboard.

[Old Professer]

Cryptoquote; I need a voiceboard-make that a voiceboard with an auto spell check.

[Never2baCrat]

If you heard the first shot, and it's not the last thing you ever heard, a reasonable person should consider it a tracer round. ;^) This is a great tag line!

[Billthedrill]

Tolerance is not a conditioned response.

Good heavens, what a lovely idea. Perhaps it isn't. I'm going to have to give that proposition some serious thought. Because it undermines a very good deal of modern pedagogy, doesn't it? Then what is being taught in the stifling atmosphere of political correctness isn't tolerance at all, it is merely fear of punishment. And that's about right, isn't it?

And if tolerance is really the respect given by a free man to another's freedom, then depriving him of freedom is hardly likely to advance the cause of tolerance. Is it?

At least a three-beer problem, Dr. Watson...

[B4Ranch]

>>a Constitution that actually restrains their government from messing them over. <<

Where did you get this idea? Not here in the US that's for sure. The Constitution is ignored by the legislators and the courts.

[Old Professer]

Six, if I've counted correctly, but then, I started at 7:45 A.M. as usual.

[ExSoldier]

"The Constitution is ignored by the legislators and the courts."

I'm not talking about the harsh reality, I'm talking of the original purpose of the Bill of Rights, not the way in which it has been misapplied. The 2nd Amendment should give us Vermont style concealed carry rights. Does it? For that matter, the 4th Amendment has been whittled away to almost nothing over the years, especially as it is applied to modes of transportation. But without doubt, the original intent as noted in the Federalist papers as well as the Anti-Federalist Papers was to act as a restraint against government interference in God given rights.

[B4Ranch]

The problem is we live in the world of reality and the bastards in Washington have canceled out everything the Founders intended for our Nation.

Old Glory is just a nuisance to them, not something they respect. The cute blue flag is the one they want to see above the Federal buildings now. Too soon for me, it will be there!

[ExSoldier]

Okay, you get NO arguments from me on that score. Except I think the UN is nearly ready to implode from it's own inefficiency and corruption. As an organization, it's dying. What rises from it's ashes WILL rule the world. It's almost time to start looking for the "Leader" who will come forward and offer the "hope" that will tie everything together. Get my drift?

[Larry Lucido]

Where can I join? "

TSRA had a Dallas office when I lived there. Looks like they are in Addison now.

[Designer]

RE: Post 19;

The question of questions is, how much more evidence do these gun-control people need, before they give up and say, "Oops, we were wrong!" ???

FYI to you and seemingly everyone else on this thread;

It should have been obvious by now that the real adgenda of gun grabbers is not to deter "gun crime", but to disarm us citizens. And it matters not that we have good arguments against gun registration, because they will keep at it until we (law abiding) are completely disarmed. They will not give up.

[Rytwyng]

It should have been obvious by now that the real adgenda of gun grabbers is not to deter "gun crime", but to disarm us citizens

Sadly, all available evidence suggests that you are correct. Molon Labe!

[Freemeorkillme]

"I think these guys are not talking about a literal invasion, just politics as usual"

Sir, I did gather that from the article. However, an intrusion into our domestic affairs, as the NDP threatens, is meddling with our sovereignty, wouldn't you say?

Also, nobody is talking about an invasion of Canada, I'm glad to hear.

FReeRegards

[ExSoldier]

" an intrusion into our domestic affairs, as the NDP threatens, is meddling with our sovereignty...."

Absolutely correct. But it's nothing the UN hasn't been trying for years (ever since it's creation in fact) and they're getting plenty of encouragement from our very own RATS. Deal with the threat from within, first. Then the outside threat won't matter a damn anyway.

[Freemeorkillme]

agreed. We keep the one eye open.