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I'm from Alberta. I'm in the process of getting my RPAL, and I'm interested in getting into target shooting and possibly IPSC. I've already passed the CFSC and CRFSC. The gun I have my eyes on right now is a Sig Sauer P229.

I've been reading the forums for a while now. Reading up on gun-related news articles, observing what's going on in the Canadian fight for gun rights, I even donated $250 to the Brian Knight Legal Fund. This isn't my first post here, but I should probably have a formal introduction.

From what I can tell, Canadians in general simply don't care about shooting sports. If they don't care, then why would they care about our guns? My thoughts about it here: http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=349879

I'm also having trouble with my parents and my interest in owning firearms. I've been getting some useful advice so far: http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=351314
 
Hi -
I looked at your thread that held suggestions for increasing awareness of shooters and shooting. I applaud your interest and approaches. I've collected guns for more than fifty years, on both sides of the border. In the last twenty years or so, it seems to me that what's developed is not just the ignorance and lack of interest in guns that prevailed since the end of WWII and the rapid growth of urbanization, but a real fear and antipathy. People generally don't really want to have anything to do with guns, and are just plain afraid of people who do. It seems to me that we need to do two things: one is that we need to reassure people that by far we are law-abiding and as interested in the public welfare as anyone can be, and two, make sure that the government sees our interests as capable of being practiced without making the public afraid, and is willing to protect our interests as legitimate hobbies. We need to convince both the general public and the lawmakers that those of us who don't break the law, and in fact work pretty hard to stay within it, do not constitute the gun problems faced by society. There are some problems that laws and society can't deal with very well, and the systematic use of guns (or anything else) by law-breakers as tools of violence, and the occasional use of guns (or anything else) as tools of socio- and psychopaths are among them. Someone recently put up an interesting statistic on this site, about the disparity in the number of yearly deaths involving firearms, and the number of deaths involving doctors. The health profession manages to kill far more each year than anyone with a gun. But noone would argue the need to eliminate them because they are important to society. The problem we have is that very few can see the "reasonableness" of our hobbies, and they aren't seen as benefitting society in any way. We need to work very hard at getting across an image of us as non-threatening, law-abiding and reasonable, even if most don't share our interests and our reasons. By far, most of us are not the systematic or occasional abusers of law and society -- we are not the threat -- and we need to get those points across to the general public and the lawmakers.
 
Although I am also new here, Welcome to the madness, and watch out it gets to be an addiction. You know it when you start another bank account to hide large ammo buys from the wife to feed the toys. hehe.
 
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