Originally Posted by
Har0350a
(I sent this to all NDP MP’s)
Subject: Personalizing the nameless and faceless
Good Afternoon to all,
I know perhaps at best this will be viewed briefly by a junior intern and subsequently deleted, but perhaps one or a few will spend five minutes contemplating my thoughts.
My name is Glenn Harper. I am a locomotive engineer, an Albertan, and a Canadian. I’m an avid artist, a gardener, a thinker, a dreamer, an environmentalist, and an animal lover. I used to be a fanatical fisherman, but I gave that up because I realized how fundamentally cruel sport fishing is. Torturing and possibly killing another sentient life form for “recreation.”
I am not a vegetarian, nor am I a hunter. I am, however, an avid firearms collector and recreational target shooter. Which naturally brings us to the point…
The liberal government unfairly targets the two million plus law abiding citizens that enjoy this harmless and historically fascinating activity. Not to mention countless tens of thousands of hunters and First Nations.
Licensed firearms owners are not the ones making the headlines laying carnage on our city streets. Quite the opposite. I believe in law and order, in peace, in kindness. In helping the downtrodden, in protecting the weak, the abused, and the lost.
When I come across a pan handler, I don’t rudely tell them “Get a job…” I’ll give them twenty or fifty dollars (even outside a liquor store) and say “I’d prefer you get a warm meal.”
I don’t know if many, or any, of you have read of the horrific case of a horse being brutally tortured in Ontario in the last week or so. Dragged behind a vehicle and locked up bleeding in a stall. I read the article but refused to watch the attached video. The article alone brought me to tears. I actually would not even recommend reading the article…
Gun owners are not criminals. We are not rampage killers. We are people. Just like all of you. And yet we take the blame and wreak the consequences for those that refuse to follow the law and make the headlines.
Taking every single firearm from every single licensed firearm owner will have essentially ZERO impact on actual gun crime. This is widely known and accepted, even among members of the Liberal Party.
One of the primary reasons I’m interested in firearms is history. A history sadly so often written in blood. I have a number of historical firearms used in combat in World War II. Firearms that went ashore at Dieppe and Normandy. Carried by anonymous men from small prairie towns and Scottish fishing villages. Firearms that liberated Holland. That crushed the German war machine. That liberated concentration camps. That helped write history. That put an end to horror. Firearms carried by those that gave all. Dragged through the sand, and the mud, and the blood by all the boys we remember one minute once a year.
I remember these boys every day. And I am a keeper and archivist of their tools of the trade. Criminal don’t shoot up the streets with Bren guns and M1 Garands. And if the government wants to melt down my collection of historical artifacts to make rebar, I’ll probably abide by the law.
But I’m a Canadian. And supposedly this is a democracy. As such, I am taking a few moments hoping a few of you will hear me. I am but one of over two million. And I thank you for your time…
Glenn Harper
(I don’t post here much. But I am as equally horrified as everyone here. I have a hundred thousand worth of scrap metal. I’m one of the youngest 12-3/12-5 guys left. FN FAL and Galil in high school in 1991. And since then, a whole lot more. Three Brens, four Stens, mg-34’s, AK’s, HK’s, 7 FALs, everything I ever wanted as a kid. Nearly. Still need an RPD, PKM, and MAG-58. If anyone has one to sell. I wrote this to try to personalize us as people. We aren’t just “gun nutz.” We are people. Just like everyone else. We follow the law. We respect others. Except maybe Trudeau. Who I consider a national embarrassment.)
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