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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Ah yes good point.
Mod can you please change the title to the Neverending Americian Stupidity Thread?
Shnabdabber (#### that was hard to type correctly) are you in/from the US?
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UCB, I'm sorry I dont want to come across as a prick and I apologize.
If we are talking about Canada (where both of us reside) then we DO have limited and controlled access to firearms. We also are lucky not have a firearm problem in Canada, even though we have one of the highest ownership rates per capita in the world.
If we are talking about the US then yeah, I'm gonna have to disagree and suggest that their unalienable rights supersede gun control legislation. We also have to look at the data and see, that regardless of how much we are bombarded by horrific stories in the media, gun crime has been on a very steady, predictable decline in the US for over 30 years now. Its been dropping at the same rate in Canada, however we have seen the decline start over 50 years ago.
Even in this thread I have been called a enabler for murderers simply because I have a licence to own firearms. Myself and every other PAL/RPAL holder in this country have a background check run every stinking day against our names because we are licensed and are doing things the right and legal way. We forfeit the right to a search warrant based on the ownership of firearms, we can/are subjugated to warrentless searches, the only class/division of people in this entire country to be in that situation. To even apply for a licence you must be vetted of personal information that no other govt form in the country will ask of you.
In other words, we go through enough BS, leave us alone.
The US struggles with social and economic issues, deep racial divide and all sorts of other crap that we thankfully dont see manifest into gun crime here in Canada. But banning an object that has no choice in the matter is repugnant and speaks against what a truly free society is.