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You should shoot him with a registered handgun, because everyone loves irony.

Where do you get blueberry juice? It seems like it would be a bit too sweet.

I'm thinking my way around this is to purchase a house somewhere in the US and just keep my guns there. What sucks is I'll have to cross the border to go to a range.

Nope. No sugar added, organic. Walnut Acres. I bet this would make fabulous wine.

Unless you are shooting a cannon of a pistol, I do not think the bear is going to be phased by it much.

I own a .45 and while never been chased by nor shot at a bear with it, I doubt it would have the same stopping power affect on a 400-800 pound bear as it does on a 150 pound person.


Though Headshots FTW!!!1!!11

fail to see how banning legitimate handguns will solve the problem. To be very clear, the laws about handguns are clear. If you have a registered firearm and it is stolen due to improper care by the owner, the owner can face up to 2 years in prison for failure to secure his/her firearm. The laws are already very tight for the law abiding citizens. How is denying the sportsman keeping guns away from the thugs? It isn't. I think this is just a dirty ploy to get the Conservative voters to vote Liberal.
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here is some sobering facts for you. 9 out of 10 people shot during a home robbery are shot with their own weapon.

85 percent of all gun related fatalities are children finding a weapon in the home, and not due to some crime.

while it is fine to chant one dimensional thinking soundbites like "only criminals will have guns" and "guns dont kill, people do" and " banning them will not stop criminals from getting them", WITHOUT ever addressing the issue with any real facts or information ..........

the simple truth is, the fewer guns in homes WILL amount to fewer deaths in homes. banning weapons will reduce deaths. yes, someone with a weapon who wants to kill you will still kill you with his illegal gun, but here is a reality check........you arte more liekly to be killed with YOUR weapon than from a criminals weapon. YOUR children are MORE liekly to be killed with YOUR weapon than a criminals.

tons of loop holes. tons of what ifs. tons of reasons to have weapons.

bottom line, statistics clearly say it is not the criminals weapon that is killing people, it is YOURS.

but, like money, a weapon gives us a sence of power. a sence of security. so dont expect people to give up guns or money. we were born stupid, and many people will die because of our stupidity. it is the human condition to self destruct even in the face of irrefutable evidence.

banning guns was never about reducing violent crime which will also be an eneviatable result of a ban, but about saving human lives. mostly the lives of innocents who are 10 times more liekly to die from a weapon in their home than one from a robber.

toss in some spinn, "only crimninals will have guns", with a litle patriotism, "this country was won with weapons", yada yada yada, and on goes the cigeratte companies making millions off of your stupidity,. and the arms dealers getting billions in bussiness both in third world countries and at home from the same inexhaustable well of stupidity.

The complete point that you are missing though is that home shootings are a small percentage of the total shootings in our country, not going to make up a percentage but it is rather small.

The majority of shootings occur in the streets with unregistered handguns, how is removing registered handguns going to decrease the amount of shootings committed with unregistered handguns?

Do you remove kitchen knives from the world because 100 fingers are lost per year cutting carrots or do you remove bowie knives because they are the #1 weapon used in most violent attacks?

Also we are more than aware that banning hand guns is just a stop gap approach that fails to deal with the symptom of the problem. The problem is caused by disparity in quality of life, problems in inclusivness and a bunch of other things.
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banning guns is infantly cheaper than regulating them. regulating them is the stop gap measure, not banning them.

and the problem is us. people. we can put a man on the moon, but we are not mature enough as individuals to be given the power of life and death over another human being. the power a gun gives us.

as long as guns are legal, more innocent people will be killed with legitimate weapons than from criminals. and WE are the reason why.

i agree, banning weapons doesnt solve the problem of our maturity and sence of responsibility. not to mention, the lobbying dollars from the gun industry that will ensure there is no real pollitical will behind doing it other than for an election campaign soundbite.

the answer is education.

but there is no lobbiest power dumping millions of dollars on to politicians to improve that which we all know is in desperate need of improving. no money to be made for anyone. no huge industrial machine to make us better than we are.

welcome to the human condition. born in stupidity, destined to be ruled by stupidity.

imagine a world where knoledge and intellegance ment power and wealth and weapons were worthless.........

but who would pay the politicians to get us there.....

The majority of shootings occur in the streets with unregistered handguns, how is removing registered handguns going to decrease the amount of shootings committed with unregistered handguns?
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pure spinn.

mabe the majority of crimes committed with weapons occure in the streets with unregestered weapons......

but the majority of shootings happen in homes with a legitimate weapon.

see how easy it is to spinn something with one simple word? sustitue the word "crime" with teh word "shootings", adn viola, a true statement to argue either side of the fence.

BTW, we americans INVENTED spinn. just look at our presidency. you canuks got nothing on us for lies and coruption. hell, we invaded a whole country with ours.

Quick SR its a Pop Quiz

Who is the PM of Canada?
Who was PM of canada during gun registry?
Who was the main opponent of the Gun Registry?
What were the contributing factors behind the cost overruns?
What is the situation that sparked this latest handgun problem?
What are the difference in Canadian/US gun ownership laws/rights?

I'm hoping you can at least get the PM without having to resort to google. Simply put you are arguing a position from an incredible point of ignorance. Either educate yourself of get off this sh[b][/b]it.

I actually own several guns. Granted some of my family traditions are rather "Hickish", as we like to hunt, but we do shoot a couple hand guns also for ***** and giggles. I know a lot of frieds who also shoot for just for the sporting aspect of the activity. None of these individuals are social deviants either.


I won't tell you about a bear ... but wild boar are pretty scary also.

My big problem with getting the Libs in is that no matter what, when the gun issue goes to the house, it will pass because the PC's have been trying to get this done. The only chance we have to stop it is lobbiests and NDP backing for the little guy...

Part of me is like "who needs hand guns? As long as I have a rifle for moose hunting the world is good".

I do realize what a polarizing f[b][/b]uck up of a move this was though. I realize that it doesnt address the problem, that it will be largely ineffective in stopping gun violence, that it punishes a large group of canadians that legally own hand guns and use them for recreational purposes that in no way harms people.

It is very unlike the liberals to make such a mistake.