Re: Moose/Sentol

[G. Morgan <usenet_abuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

tourman <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


<snip the education part-- thanks>

>The PAL might seem onerous but overall it is a good piece of licensing
>that serves to ensure those who shouldn't have legal firearms are
>prevented from doing so, plus ensures all gun owners are trained in
>safe handling and storage etc. BUT THAT'S AS FAR AS IT SHOULD
>GO !!!!!!! Further registries do nothing to enhance public safety and
>only serve to control and restrict those guns that legitimate owners
>possess....

Well, if it is how you describe it I completely agree.  Ever see the old 80's
movie "Red Dawn"?  It's about the Soviets invading US soil.  The first thing
they did was to round up all the registered gun owners and detain them.

It sounds like such a law like that 'could' be used to allow the RMCP to go
around to every household and confiscate your guns, if the next piece of
legislation comes around to banning them completely, as in the UK.


>The point that some don't get is ....there is never enough gun control
>for many people - period !! If you allow those in power  to erode
>rights and privileges little by little, you end up with nothing left.
>Any government in a free society should have to PROVE why they intend
>to take away any rights of honest people. In a free society, you don't
>have to prove the NEED for anything. As long as you obey the laws and
>harm no one else, you are free to do what you wish !! Not the other
>way around.....

100% agreed.  Right now we have a similar issue in the US with the DEA (Drug
Enforcement Agency).  They are going around and scrutinizing every doctor's
prescriptions that involve controlled substances.  Doctors here are so scared
they might get on the DEA's radar screen they under-prescribe needed pain meds.
and such.  I had shoulder surgery last Dec. and the screws are causing me
chronic pain.  Any doctor (including my surgeon) *can* provide pain meds. but
are so reluctant to do so.  Now I have to go to a pain management specialist to
get it.  I feel like a criminal, have to take a pee test every month.  All my
records (which should be protected with our HIPPA law), are now in the hands of
the government.  The DEA primary mission is to keep illicit drugs out of the
country, not to harass licensed doctors.


>
>There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the ultimate end of all
>this registration BS is to abolish all firearms from the hands of
>private citizens, as per one of the UN mandates. They just have to do
>it in a multitude of little, less onerous ways....It's called "two
>steps forward, one back"..... Unfortunately, such an opinion is seen
>by many up here as "right wing", "paranoid" or "over the top". I'd
>rather be called any of those things so long as I can help prevent
>this from happening.!!!!

I'm not aware of that UN mandate.  Will you provide a link?  Since the US in the
UN this matter now concerns me too.  I don't think the American citizens will
ever allow the government to take away our firearms.  It would lead to a coup
d'état.

Gun laws for the most part are not effective, the "bad" guys will always be able
to get them.  Just look at Mexico for that example.