The average person walking down the street has NO idea whatsoever about the actuality of being a legitimate firearms owner. They believe what they read in the mass media, which largely is written by people with a Grade 12 education, the very best ones supplemented by a year or two in journalism school. I know: I was a journalist myself.
People just have no idea.
If you were to try to explain to people that you had served in the Canadian Forces and had been trained with a specific rifle, and then, years later, had bought an identical rifle and used it for competition shooting, they MIGHT understand a bit.
But if you then were to tell them that this rifle, your legitimate competition rifle, legally owned and legally shot on licensed rifle ranges and at Canadian Forces bases, now could not even be taken out of your house because it had been re-classified as a 'terrorist weapon'...... they likely would not believe you. But this has happened. Ask anyone who owns an FAL.
The biggest problem we face is utter ignorance.
Most people believe in 'semi-automatic machine-guns'. WE KNOW that such a thing does not exist.
Most people see something about a shooting on TV and say, "The should be a law against that!" They don't understand that there HAS been a law against killing your neighbours.... for at least 3200 years since Moses wrote it down...... and against the weapons being used...... at LEAST since 1934.
Some dodo gets his hands on something wierd and people say it should be banned. Look at the AK problem: the AK was effectively banned in Canada in 1934. It was invented in 1947. Canada's laws, if anything, are 'pro-actice' (that word so dear to the hearts of seal-hunt activists and protestors and other folks who, were they gun ownerts, would be called 'rioters' and 'terrorists').
Federal Cabinet Ministers and Prime Ministers attend fund-raisers for terrorist organisations (the Tamil Tigers are a great example here, Mister Cretin)...... and people think it's allright.
But they think that WE are evil.
And we're not the ones doing the nasties.
Best thing any of us can do is take a journalist and a neighbour to the rifle range for an afternoon..... and EXPLAIN all the bullsh*t, one step at a time: every single permit, every single having to prove your legal sanity, every single begging on your knees for official approval to do something LEGAL with your own property.
And THEN, the very next time there is a news item about a robbery or a murder..... total up ALL the Criminal Code offences and ask the newspaper guy WHY all of these charges were not laid, applied, prosecuted and penalised..... because they certainly would be if it had been one of US.
Neighbours and journalists: take 'em to the range, get 'em on our side.
Therough a combination of ignorance and misinformation, they have been, in effect, on the OTHER side for far too long. And most of them don't even know it.
This guy's frightened neighbour just might be a good place to start..... along with the Editor of the local paper, who SHOULD have known better.
People just have no idea.
If you were to try to explain to people that you had served in the Canadian Forces and had been trained with a specific rifle, and then, years later, had bought an identical rifle and used it for competition shooting, they MIGHT understand a bit.
But if you then were to tell them that this rifle, your legitimate competition rifle, legally owned and legally shot on licensed rifle ranges and at Canadian Forces bases, now could not even be taken out of your house because it had been re-classified as a 'terrorist weapon'...... they likely would not believe you. But this has happened. Ask anyone who owns an FAL.
The biggest problem we face is utter ignorance.
Most people believe in 'semi-automatic machine-guns'. WE KNOW that such a thing does not exist.
Most people see something about a shooting on TV and say, "The should be a law against that!" They don't understand that there HAS been a law against killing your neighbours.... for at least 3200 years since Moses wrote it down...... and against the weapons being used...... at LEAST since 1934.
Some dodo gets his hands on something wierd and people say it should be banned. Look at the AK problem: the AK was effectively banned in Canada in 1934. It was invented in 1947. Canada's laws, if anything, are 'pro-actice' (that word so dear to the hearts of seal-hunt activists and protestors and other folks who, were they gun ownerts, would be called 'rioters' and 'terrorists').
Federal Cabinet Ministers and Prime Ministers attend fund-raisers for terrorist organisations (the Tamil Tigers are a great example here, Mister Cretin)...... and people think it's allright.
But they think that WE are evil.
And we're not the ones doing the nasties.
Best thing any of us can do is take a journalist and a neighbour to the rifle range for an afternoon..... and EXPLAIN all the bullsh*t, one step at a time: every single permit, every single having to prove your legal sanity, every single begging on your knees for official approval to do something LEGAL with your own property.
And THEN, the very next time there is a news item about a robbery or a murder..... total up ALL the Criminal Code offences and ask the newspaper guy WHY all of these charges were not laid, applied, prosecuted and penalised..... because they certainly would be if it had been one of US.
Neighbours and journalists: take 'em to the range, get 'em on our side.
Therough a combination of ignorance and misinformation, they have been, in effect, on the OTHER side for far too long. And most of them don't even know it.
This guy's frightened neighbour just might be a good place to start..... along with the Editor of the local paper, who SHOULD have known better.
) comes to the range with me when ever he can. Has has yet to put a story in the local paper about the positive roll of firearms in are lives, but I'm working on him!
the JC has a legally accepted 10 rounder - go re-read the regs please!
