Re: OT - Sarrasota - Strange Days Indeed

["tourman" <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, at the moment, there is an amnesty extended until 17th May which
protects long gun owners who havent registered their guns from
prosecution. The Conservative government(like your Republicans) got in
with a promise they would get rid of the $2 Billion dollar long gun
registry, but they only got in with a minority, and it will take a
majority government to actually pass an act of Parliament to unravel
the mess. So they compromised to honour their promise with a temporary
"amnesty". Come 17th of May, who knows what they'll do.

But after 30 years of Liberal rule (read urban based, gun hating, left
wing socialist....Democrats by your terminology), they have so
ingrained this anti-gun bias in Canadian society, that it will take
nothing short of a miracle to bring some sense to our gun laws. At
best, if the Conservative government gets in with the majority they
need to clean up the mess, there is still a lot of ill informed
pressure from the urban vote, who believe the "guns are evil" nonsense
of the past 30 years.So it remains to be seen whether the
Conservatives will do the right thing, but I won't be holding my
breath.

Now if the Liberals get in, all hope for common sense changes is lost.
They campaigned last time on the promise to "abolish the private
ownership of handguns in Canada" when they were digging for anything
to bolster their lagging fortunes. So it they do get in, I'm sure the
idiot mayor of Toronto would remind them of this. And for sure, the
long gun registry will remain to continue its useless bleeding of tax
monies.

What neither government realizes (or more likely chooses to ignore),
is that they have created a huge "grey market" of long guns changing
hands within the shooting community, between previously totally legal
and honest gun owners. And now that the penalties for ownership of an
unregistered long gun are the same as those for an unregistered
sidearm, people no longer go in to register the very many unregistered
sidearms that they come into possession of. So the situation from the
government "control" point of view has become much worse although they
are either too stupid or uncaring to see the situation as it really
is.

The only ones who have actually registered their long guns are the
farmers and once a year shooters and they aren't the problem and never
will be. But the geniuses who push this shit don't seem to understand
that (or more likely don't want to, since their REAL agenda is the
eventual total abolishment of all firearms from the hands of private
citizens).

And any Canadian gun owner who doesn't see that at this point in time,
had better wake up and smell the coffee.No government has the right to
make criminals of honest people by changing they laws in such a
fashion that honest people are no longer able to comply without
endless beauracratic and conflicting rules !!!

But hey....at some point soon, hopefully I'll be living in Florida for
a large part of the year where they don't assume you have some sort of
criminal tendency simply because you choose to own firearms for legal
purposes.

RHC



On Mar 21, 9:39 pm, "Jim" <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mar 21, 4:07?pm, "tourman" <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Well, as I understand Florida law (not too well but well enough), an
> > owner of a property is entitled to use deadly force to protect
> > themselves against intruders forcing themselves into a home or
> > automobile. And with most people (or a high percentage) owning
> > sidearms, and with one in 17 people in Florida having a license to
> > carry a concealed weapon, I imagine these deputies should be thanking
> > their lucky stars they are still alive.
>
> > I certainly wouldn't condone the actions of either "side" here, but
> > the whole thing sounds like a recipe for disaster that luckily didn't
> > happen.
>
> > I plan to buy property here in Florida soon and I look forward to
> > living in a place where I don't have to put up with the sheer anti-gun
> > stupidity of the paranoid Canadian gun hating authorities( who make it
> > extremely difficult to engage in the legal shooting sports in Canada).
>
> > Just an aside....
>
> > RHC
>
> Aren't things getting a little better with the new regime in power?
>
> Or at least is there some hope that they'll recind some of the
> regulations?
>
> With what little I've heard in the last number of months, at least it
> hasn't been any "bad" news. I'm thinking that the new party would let
> it "lay" for a while before begining to take some positive action.