Shotgun in your vehicle?

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Its amazing what people will write about or disclose on this forum!!! How many cops are members I wonder??........ or how many monitor this site ?............Hmmmmmm?

1) You're not the first one to say that, nor will you be the last...

2) Good thing we have the Charter, ne pas? Otherwise, speaking would be verboten....

3) I read these threads for the same reason I sometimes listen to talk radio (not just because the reception for the FM classical station is on the fritz ). I like to hear the opinions of others, consider them and construct my would-be responses and, if need be, revise my own views. As such, I rather appreciate their existence.

4) The LEO folk on the site seem to be pretty decent, from what/who I've encountered thus far. Or are we worried about the black-helicopter folk? I'm okay with them too....in Toronto, the helicopter project was cancelled for lack of funds/extremely irate city-folk!

Just being playful and maybe semi-sincere....

 

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Bev Ackerman is that you?

Certainly, if you're a lawyer, a ruthless cop who does his job by running after criminals and constantly pissing them off or maybe your job entails stepping on people who have the means and reasons to hurt you, than I can totally see the concern.

Otherwise if this is just in case scenario. Just in case I am on the way home from playing golf and I run into some gangsters who are going to take my money and kill me. Then think about it, is it just good old paranoia?

If you feel more secure with a gun in your car than go ahead. If you don't mind scaring someone as you carelessly show off your gun to someone and then have them call the police. And trust me when I say this if there's an anonymous call that comes in and it traces back to your house. Guess who is going to be answering a lot of unnecessary questions and I really do hope that you have everything in order. Again take my word for it, but you'd be in the back of the cruiser in no time.

Social responsibility is not some foreign object, it's something that everyone should be always concerned about. That applies to doing dangerous things and scaring civilians. Everyone has different sensitivity threshold. Some can handle it and some can't, if you scare some poor mother with 3 kids with your gun as you take it out of your trunk, than shame on you.

Remember, people in general are scared of guns and gun owners, be cool and let them be while enjoying your firearms. Otherwise don't scare them further and give them reasons to pursue retarded legislations.

So which Mother of a Dawson College student might you be?

Judging from your tone and post, it appears that you are under the impression that gun owners seek every opportunity to display and brandish their firearms. Trust me...firearm owners typically do not want attention drawn to them. It makes for a bad insurance policy to have your household more likely of a target for theft by good lil' Johnny-next-door's no-good new friend from school.

If people do use choose to transport a firearm in their vehicle for those just in case moments, it is their prerogative. Perhaps you may not agree, and you are entitled to your opinion. Contrary to communism and fascism, Canadians aren't to be told what to think but should make opinions and hopefully sound judgements for themselves.

Social responsibility is important but apparently some of us have different virtues. Social responsibility include paying taxes, being courteous, helping those in need(good Samaritan who for example helps those in danger rather walk away), supporting the economy and so on...

Where do you come across the idea that normal people, who decide to throw a shotgun in the trunk, are not socially responsible?

 

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So which Mother of a Dawson College student might you be? ?

Ouch. Isn't that at least a little bit offside?

C'mon, we're better than those kind of comments, even if we didn't mean them to be hurtful/insensitive.

 

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I have my mossy 500, my 10/22 and probably my Mosin with me every time I leave the damn city in cases, trigger locks, ammo cans. I grew up in the sticks, plan to move back pretty soon, and have indeed put down an animal that was very badly messed up in an unfriendly encounter with an automobile. Twice in fact. Deer first time, then cow, friend driving in front of me hit said cow, then wrote off F150, then I stopped took one look at the cow and asked the farmer if he wanted me to put it down, he was moving his cattle from the pasture back to his farm, was about a mile short of home, saved him and the cow some grief. basically a bad day all around. There are very legitimate reasons for having a firearm in the trunk.