Originally Posted By: canvasback
What I meant is you think the words he uses are deceptive, chosen to give cover to his real beliefs, while influencing our thoughts towards his aims.


No? Really?

Well, I guess I could agree that King doesn't give cover to his real beliefs. Mostly. He's been up front about his Leftist and Socialist beliefs, except that he still denies being anti-gun even while continuing to make anti-gun, anti 2nd Amendment, anti-NRA statements, and continuing to support the most vehement anti-gun politicians. How could he or anyone think you could have it both ways?

But when you intentionally post wildly inaccurate phony statistics as King did back on pg 4. (with the default number of posts per page), and totally refuse to acknowledge or retract your lies, then I believe you are being deceptive... to put it mildly. But he will say he never saw the true figures or the links I provided, because he pretends to ignore my posts... which constitutes another big fat lie. When you do the same thing repeatedly, and many other people call you out on it with proof, not just simple personal opinion, then it rises to the level of compulsive liar or even pathological liar.

I'm sorry, but not surprised to hear that Ontario will not allow you to use studded snow tires even though there is abundant data to support the Swedish findings you note. Another case of big government mixing in and actually making things worse by preventing you from using a safer tire and by dumping tons of expensive salt onto the environment. But hey, it creates jobs for those highway workers. And it could be worse. There could be a reverse discrimination where you were prohibited from using studs, but were taxed to redistribute studs to certain minorities.

I run studs on all of my vehicles, and I think they are the cheapest auto insurance one can buy. The small extra cost is amortized over their 3-4 year useful life, and you can only wear out one set of tires at a time. So while the studs are in use, the summer tires, mounted on their own wheels, are not accumulating any wear. Twice a year, I feel like a tire shop though, jacking up and replacing all 4 tires on 5 vehicles. I've been using Winterforce tires built by Firestone on the cars. They don't come big enough for my truck though, so I had to use another brand for it. I don't think you can find a better snow tire for the money here in the U.S., and many brands sold here aren't much better than All-Season radials. Anyone who thinks either summer tires or All_Season tires are as good as a good snow tire for snowy/icy winter driving is kidding themselves. You might want to give them a try without studs if you can find them in Canada. Tirerack.com carries them.

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Firestone&tireModel=Winterforce

A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.