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Ted, you may have missed my report here of our last year's gun club annual meeting. Members would not take a position on looming gun control. I met with a half-dozen members of another club at the county range recently, one with an assault-style rifle. Similar response. The local gun shop owner put up his hand when I mentioned it, "I don't want to talk about it." Entreaties to a national organization provided unimaginative boilerplate, voice and print.
A majority favours gun control in rural Nova Scotia and those who don't have been worn down and dispirited by unfairness of the urban-rural divide. Urban has the votes. Our provincial government recently closed its biggest kraft mill arbitrarily after a poll showed 60 per cent of the populace didn't want it. No discussion with thousands of stakeholders, not even the owners or legislators.
My shooting-sports brothers, many close friends for more than 50 years who opposed successfully the long-gun registry, appreciate my efforts. Only now they see them mostly as beating a dead horse. I can see from here you are involved with the wrong gun club. Or, country. Best, Ted __________________________________________________ Hard to hold onto rights you really dont have to begin with.
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Ted, you may have missed my report here of our last year's gun club annual meeting. Members would not take a position on looming gun control. I met with a half-dozen members of another club at the county range recently, one with an assault-style rifle. Similar response. The local gun shop owner put up his hand when I mentioned it, "I don't want to talk about it." Entreaties to a national organization provided unimaginative boilerplate, voice and print.
A majority favours gun control in rural Nova Scotia and those who don't have been worn down and dispirited by unfairness of the urban-rural divide. Urban has the votes. Our provincial government recently closed its biggest kraft mill arbitrarily after a poll showed 60 per cent of the populace didn't want it. No discussion with thousands of stakeholders, not even the owners or legislators.
My shooting-sports brothers, many close friends for more than 50 years who opposed successfully the long-gun registry, appreciate my efforts. Only now they see them mostly as beating a dead horse. What a load of horse shit King! Your life's efforts consisted of unbridled support for Liberal Left anti-gun politicians in Canada and here. You spent years here greasing the skids for the most anti-gun Liberal Left Democrats on the planet, and being nothing but critical of the Conservatives who worked to maintain our gun rights. Make us all laugh, and tell us you did not help Justin Trudeau by giving him your vote and your endorsement. You were, and continue to be a Wolf in Sheep's clothing, and a Trojan Horse posing as a gun guy. It appears as though you plan to continue being dishonest about your own words and anti-2nd Amendment rhetoric... which will be your enduring legacy here. You deserve it... you worked hard for that distinction. Congrats!
A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.
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Ted, you may have missed my report here of our last year's gun club annual meeting. Members would not take a position on looming gun control. I met with a half-dozen members of another club at the county range recently, one with an assault-style rifle. Similar response. The local gun shop owner put up his hand when I mentioned it, "I don't want to talk about it." Entreaties to a national organization provided unimaginative boilerplate, voice and print.
A majority favours gun control in rural Nova Scotia and those who don't have been worn down and dispirited by unfairness of the urban-rural divide. Urban has the votes. Our provincial government recently closed its biggest kraft mill arbitrarily after a poll showed 60 per cent of the populace didn't want it. No discussion with thousands of stakeholders, not even the owners or legislators.
My shooting-sports brothers, many close friends for more than 50 years who opposed successfully the long-gun registry, appreciate my efforts. Only now they see them mostly as beating a dead horse. I can see from here you are involved with the wrong gun club. Or, country. Best, Ted __________________________________________________ Hard to hold onto rights you really dont have to begin with. King, you may be at the right gun club. Have you ever considered turning down one of the fancy board lunches with the handful of good old boys, and chit chatted with the regular folks shooting the ARs?
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...fancy board lunches... Donuts and moose meat? ...get Boat Harbour sea urchins. __________________________ Wexit, Kweebexit...place is coming apart at the seams. If only NS would crack off and float away. (Sorry) < ((the remnants of Canadian in me))
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craig, I'm an old-fashioned rifleman, competitive shooter nationally at 15, and like most of my friends abhor the sight of ARs, only to be discussed politely with tongue firmly in cheek. Our gun club has never had a board dinner, too extravagant to our liking, money better spent on shoots and range improvements.
keith, you're a troll. Shame on you. I was asked to represent two counties of shooters in the first all-party meeting hereabouts to remove the gun registry and worked with our Member of Parliament who as justice and defence minister was the strongest cabinet minister to protect gun rights.
Peter MacKay still is, now running for leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada and to be next Prime Minister, pilloried daily in the mainstream media for opposing the ban, only yesterday portrayed by one of Canada's best cartoonists as worshipping at a plinth crowned by an AK-47.
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...tongue firmly in cheek.... King, those lyrics I cribbed in the Bollocks thread were also. I figured you got it but just want to make sure. ________________________ Just know if I ever get you, c-back or Ted on the ice Im running each of you.
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craig, I'm an old-fashioned rifleman, competitive shooter nationally at 15, and like most of my friends abhor the sight of ARs, only to be discussed politely with tongue firmly in cheek.... Okay King. To put it another way, if three or four of you left your old-fashioned rifles home, and three or four hundred of 'them' left their ARs home. Wouldn't you all be Canadians? I guess not really, eh? There's the three or four elite philosophers who would think and decide for the lower class followers. It seems to me like we're perpetuating a prejudice against coequal citizens through the opportunity of an inanimate object and agressive marketing?
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"Significant anecdotal evidence is surfacing that if you are pro gun, you will be removed from this pollster's pool of people they use to conduct the various polls they do."
Surprise, surprise!
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Yes, and I'm chauvinistic on that point, craig. We would all be Canadians. Covid is being managed similarly. Depending on circumstances, our provincial and federal political leaders discuss regularly whether to ease and tighten lockdowns through consensus. Public safety comes before politics.
Your point of philosophers has merit, not so much as an elite power group---the essence of all politics, competing even within same parties---as part of our culture and national character. Canada developed without slavery and free labour, a Wild West or devastating civil war of consequences felt today.
On your point of inanimate objects and marketing, is Canada's decision to arbitrarily rid itself of ARs different from the United States imposing after 9/11 draconian limits to liberty and privacy of the Patriot Act and electronic surveillance of its entire citizenry as any country in the world?
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It seems clear to me that in the US, public safety does not come before politics. Liberal State guvs have used the tragedy to try to ruin the economy in order to dump President Trump. All they've shown me is what progressive domination will be like when it comes.
I think the shutdown which resulted in what's likely to become another long term recession was unnecessary and the disease should have been allowed to burn itself out. It seems to me that's what we've come around to anyhow...Geo
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