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xmountie

    • 01 Oct 07
    • 9:43 pm

    Ms. Washington obviously has a problem with the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights contained therein. It is within the Bill of Rights that we find the 2nd Amendment with which she has a special interest in seeing removed. It was interesting that she did not see, in her own tirade on gun ownership and the members of the Responsible Firearms Community (RFC) that she was also attacking the 1st Amendment, for she seems to have a problem with anyone who disagrees with her. One would think that a Senior Editor would write more from her mind …

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    • 05 Oct 07
    • 8:35 pm

    Gun owners, and I refer to the members of the Responsible Firearms Community (RFC) here, Major Major not the gang bangers and drug gang members, happen to be the most law abiding segment of society. They even outshine most police Departments. The reason for this is they have invested a lot of money, time and effort in obtaining their firearms, becoming proficient with them and making sure they meet all the qualifications required by the State to obtain CCW permits or simply to either hunt or punch holes in paper at the local firing range. They are a far cry from …

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    • 06 Oct 07
    • 9:50 am

    I am not sure where the Major is going with his comments. The statement from which he took three words does not contain the word occassionaly. I said "MOST" which is vastly different. These figures compare Citizens with CCW permits charged or convicted of a crime in various states,with police departments, State and Municipal, who have had officers charged and convicted of crimes. I am unsure whether he was referring to me in his next post referring to "bozos" having yet to invade another country for no other reason... If he was, I don't see relevance.. That is the purview of …

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    • 11 Oct 07
    • 9:31 pm

    A lively discussion that is rapidly deteriorating as a result of the fact that Gun Grabbers are incapable of responding to any thing posted here without vitriolic attacks on Gun owners. Perhaps, rather than continuing to to let your ignorance of the subject show, you might want to do some actual research or read something where someone has already done the research for you. A couple of books available are "More Guns Less Crime" (understanding crime and gun control laws and another "The Bias Against GUNS - Why almost everything you've heard about gun control is wrong. Both books were written …

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    • 16 Oct 07
    • 9:05 pm

    Canada has been sending police to stifle those who would use peaceful protest against an unjust law. A number of Individuals crossed the country a couple of times setting up information pickets outside the provincial legislatures. They have been trying to get the law before the Supreme Court where they and many others believe the law will crumble like a house of cards. See http://brucemontague.ca/html/index.html for information. Bruce was engaged in peaceful protest and to that end he let his firearms licence expire. The police response was to arrest him while he was in the process of purchasing a saddle for …

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    • 18 Oct 07
    • 9:54 pm

    I am wondering why there is an american flag at the end of each of the posts made by major major. I would give strong odds on this person either being a member of the Canadian Firearm's Association or one of Wendy Cukier's rabid gun grabbers using a us internet ISP in order to have a US address. Most of what he says is the usual propaganda spewed by both these groups. The RCMP Commissioner of the day when Alan Rock was lying through his teeth in the House of Commons about the benifits of the registry ans the mere two …

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    • 20 Oct 07
    • 10:50 am

    For those who may think that only violent people believe they should be armed. ‘‘Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.’’ — Mahatma Ghandi, "Gandhi, An Autobiography", page 446

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    • 20 Oct 07
    • 11:35 am

    M/M said" Suicide in Japan is a culturally accepted practice, regrettably, and almost completely irrelevant to the issue of gun ownership, and like homicide would be much higher if firearms were as endemic to the Japanese as they are to Americans." For a person who likes to make reference to the Canadian Firearms Act S/he should also be well aware that it was suicide stats that Cukier, Rock and the gun grabbers here kept referring to when quoting the total number of people killed per year by Firearms. 1200 deaths of which 1000 were suicides is hardly justification for following the …

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    • 20 Oct 07
    • 2:07 pm

    Smith & Wesson's bankruptcy had nothing to do with lack of sales in Japan. It had more to do with their climbing into bed with the anti-gun nazis in an effort of appeasement in order to avoid lawsuits from cities bent on trying to break their backs in court. Prior loyal Smith & Wesson fansserved them notice of their displeasure by cancelling orders, notifying the company that since they wanted to bed the Brady crowd et al, that they would take their business elswhere.

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    • 22 Oct 07
    • 11:14 pm

    There is something drasticly wrong with people who believe that keeping track of persons who own inanimate objects such as firearms is a good thing if they have never violated the law.. We are not allowed to change addresses without notifying the Canadian Firearms Center. To do so would be a violation of our two billion dollar farce. Yet for some strange reason , it is considered a violation of a persons rights if a convicted felon is required to do the same thing. Go Figure MM, live out your entire life without so much as a speeding ticket and be …

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    • 22 Oct 07
    • 11:36 pm

    "Every "criminal" was once a "law-abiding citizen". Your dumbass reactionary "solution" simply ensures that all of us will eventually become criminals." Let us apply your "logic" to women. Given that all prostitutes were once innocent young girls, should we ensure that this does not happen by locking them all up at a young age before they become prostitutes? '

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    • 24 Oct 07
    • 8:56 pm

    MM and others may be interested in the following link and its information on defensive use of firearms at school shootings. http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2007/04/when-mass-killers-meet-armed-resistance.html I have been aware of the Pearl incident for quite some time now and despite evidence, the media refuses to print truth. They prefer to print their version of any incident involving firearms rather than admit that firearms can actually be and are used as a benefit to society. Given this fact, it calls into question any article involving firearms printed by any person in the employ of a newspaper.

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    • 20 Oct 07
    • 11:49 am

    Why bother with a poll like this? All of the answers amount to the same thing The person that wrote it hated Reagan

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