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Originally Posted by Shnabdabber
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.
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Shnab, but the object of a dangerous object, and that is the issue in my mind. While there are any number of objects that can be dangerous, a gun is dangerous by design.
As I have said before, I love shooting, and miss shooting it was one of my favourite things to do in the military (that and eat). That being said, I am accepting of restrictive gun ownership. I just don't see why certain weapons are needed, nor do I see the need for "open carry".
I look at it this way, if you want to own a weapon then that is the cost of doing business.
I am happy to talk about this, but some of the posts in this thread are outside good taste, on both sides.
I am not anti-gun, but I am anti-everyonethatwantsonegetsone. Gun ownership, IMO, should be difficult.