What the flyin' hell is going on in this thread????
Do you actually believe that a car accident victim is somehow justified in becoming an expert witness on automobile safety panels merely because of his or her victimhood?
Surely some expertise might be more practical than raw emotional bias?
No one decries these victims' right to an opinion. What we're against is the lack of Subject Matter Experts to actually help reduce the violence NONE OF US wants. Those victims, absent any expertise, should stay the #### away from policy, and so should people who USE those victims for traction.
I believe that casting someone who took four rounds of .223/5.56 NATO as some sort of whiner who stomps her feet is foolish.
She is. Its like someone that got hit by a car wanting to ban cars and then crying about it when they dont. What possible perspective on firearms could she give the commitee? A crazy man shot her 4 times, thats it, nothing more. I have zero respect for her or her cause. Gangs are the problem, she focuses on the average gun owner. She will not listen to logic and whines when nobody listens to her.
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Which is the more rational position?
Option A: Stomping your feet about property rights which don't exist in this country and attacking one of the most sympathetic voices in this debate
Option B: Recognizing that you are dealing with people and politicians and votes and campaign contributions and the political chess match that goes with it?
I suspect/fear that Canada will have a minority government after this autumn's election. Either Scheer or Trudeau ... it's so close that it'll be a coin toss. But whoever forms that government will be beholden to the NDP and the Greens to stay in power.
Simple and awful facts.
I better get a fair (American-spec) price for my minty decade-old Stag AR-15 ... before they toss it into some glowing smelter in Hamilton or Selkirk or Regina.
I'd prefer it if all that stuff was sent in anonymous sea-cans to Ukraine with an anonymous gift-tag saying "From You-Know-Who in Vegreville/Dauphin " ... Maybe with a subtle intertwined beaver/perogy graphic ...
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