Thanks from Sharon Gregson

sgregson

sgregson

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Vancouver, British Columbia
I'd like to thank everyone who supported my public position on guns last week. The emails you sent to me and my colleagues (many of whom were speaking out against me) made such a difference. As you may know, the Solicitor General of British Columbia has made very negative statements about my right to speak out about gun ownership and discussion about self defense. The press has paid a lot of attention to the story and I have received hate mail and nasty calls to my kids at home even.

Still al least the story has people talking about the gun registry and self defense, particularly as it applies to women.
All the best to you and yours, thanks again.

Sharon Gregson
Vancouver
 
Gregson Misquoted ???

Gregson misquoted ?????

I’d like to set the record straight regarding this national storm of controversy sparked by Sharon Gregson. I have been dating Trustee Gregson for a couple of years now, did her first tattoo and gifted her first handgun, my father’s Springfield Forty Five.

Many of our more affluent neighbours living along the tree line in North Vancouver are often pestered by bears audacious enough to sniff around their estates. Conservation officers are called in, and often as not these defenceless creatures are shot.

I was present during much of the initial CBC interview and as I remember it, albeit through a fog of eggnog,………. we were sitting about, waxing philosophically on these ursine tragedies when I broached a few solutions. Sharon facetiously mumbled her agreement regarding “the right to arm bears“. And hence was erroneously born, Canada’s 2nd Amendment.

Merry hic burp Christmas

Thomas Lockhart

West Coast Tattoo
 
can i be so bold to say .....i love you:D :dancingbanana: any time them anti,s get to you... come to the nutz forum here to get some hugs and tons of support..
GO girl give them hell..
signed....... a fan;)
 
Thanks Sharon! I commend you!!

This is the start of an up hill battle to change prejudices and years of Liberal brain washing! We all need to work on our family, friends and co-workers. What we do should be just as accepted as someone who golfs.
 
Have a great New Year and know that you have thousands of friends across the country; "we've go your back"! You have helped the cause along. Let us know if we can do more.
 
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Sharon, I commend and salute you for your courage! It is very unfortunate, dissappointing and disturbing to hear that you and your familiy are receiving hate mail and telephone calls. As for the Solicitor General, the Canadian public should not tolerate such comments as we have not place for them. Keep your chin up tiger!
 
Sharon, cudo's to you for your solid stance on your beliefs. This is a perfect example of the iggnorance of the general public and what they think they know. So much for our rights to the freedom of speech. You have shown a great deal of courage in a situation I think you did not expect to get this out of control and you are handling it very well. Remember that there are no bandwagon jumpers here at CGN, and if there are, then they sould jump on it now and get the ehll out of dodge, because this group of fellow shooters does not stand behind you, we stand right beside you.
 
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Thanks for fighting this battle and know that we as a community numbering tens of thousands are at your side; you have our full support, emotionally and financially, should you ever need to take this battle to the court room.
 
sgregson said:
I'd like to thank everyone who supported my public position on guns last week. The emails you sent to me and my colleagues (many of whom were speaking out against me) made such a difference. As you may know, the Solicitor General of British Columbia has made very negative statements about my right to speak out about gun ownership and discussion about self defense. The press has paid a lot of attention to the story and I have received hate mail and nasty calls to my kids at home even.

Still al least the story has people talking about the gun registry and self defense, particularly as it applies to women.
All the best to you and yours, thanks again.

Sharon Gregson
Vancouver
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Sharon,

I have contacted the Solicitor General's office about John Les's unfortunate remarks.

It is one thing to fundamentaly disagree on an issue, but it quite another to use the language the Solicitor General did in doing so. He used poor judgement in that and he must explain himself.

As for the hate mail and calls, all I can say is there is quite a lot of people on the other side of this issue who feel that that have the moral duty to eliminate any debate on it from taking place in public. They are elitist, hypocritical and they are viscious. They will do anything short of violence, and I'm not even really sure about that, to intimidate people who believe in the right of armed self defense.

Many of them are immature emotional adolescents. You have challenged their world view and the concept of "Canada" they feel they have created and established. There will be a rational public debate on the armed self defense issue, but there will also be a completely irrational and emotional one from these people, and you have already seen it from some of your mail and some of the public reactions.

The good news is for the first time the issue of carrying handguns for self defense was not wholly dismissed out of hand. The majority of editorials featuring yourself have been good or at least neutral, with only a few editorialists and opinion makers reverting to type and condemning you.

You have given National Firearms Association the in we have been looking for to spark this debate. Thank you. The concept of providing for their own self defense is foreign to many Canadians. Statists have carefully constructed a vision of society that many have bought into. But at the end of the day most Canadians are not fools. They can and will defend themselves by any means necessary, including firearms if the situation calls for it.

Hold on, this debate is just starting.


Blair Hagen
Vice President, Communications
National Firearms Association
www.nfa.ca
 
Thanks from Sharon Gregson
I'd like to thank everyone who supported my public position on guns last week. The emails you sent to me and my colleagues (many of whom were speaking out against me) made such a difference. As you may know, the Solicitor General of British Columbia has made very negative statements about my right to speak out about gun ownership and discussion about self defense. The press has paid a lot of attention to the story and I have received hate mail and nasty calls to my kids at home even.

Still al least the story has people talking about the gun registry and self defense, particularly as it applies to women.
All the best to you and yours, thanks again.

Sharon Gregson
Vancouver
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sgregson said:
Gregson misquoted ?????

I’d like to set the record straight regarding this national storm of controversy sparked by Sharon Gregson. I have been dating Trustee Gregson for a couple of years now, did her first tattoo and gifted her first handgun, my father’s Springfield Forty Five.

Many of our more affluent neighbours living along the tree line in North Vancouver are often pestered by bears audacious enough to sniff around their estates. Conservation officers are called in, and often as not these defenceless creatures are shot.

I was present during much of the initial CBC interview and as I remember it, albeit through a fog of eggnog,………. we were sitting about, waxing philosophically on these ursine tragedies when I broached a few solutions. Sharon facetiously mumbled her agreement regarding “the right to arm bears“. And hence was erroneously born, Canada’s 2nd Amendment.

Merry hic burp Christmas

Thomas Lockhart

West Coast Tattoo
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A hardy CGN welcome to both Sharon & Thomas.:dancingbanana:

It is indeed refreshing to see a public figure stand up for their beliefs and interests.:D

Thomas, I have met you in the past a few times and am glad to see you are still keeping intouch with the shooting sports.:cool:

Hers's to the good fight!!!:D

SKBY.
 
Welcome to CGN, Sharon, and Thomas.
I am sure you will find this to be the best gun forum around.
I had read somewhere that your first gun was from your partner, but I didn't realize he was also your tattoo artist, also. Thomas, have you been involved in IPSC for a long time? I may have met you briefly around 1993. The name seems familiar.

And thank you Sharon for putting this subject on the front pages of the national news. A co-worker told me he saw an article in Mcleans magazine.
Have you registered at CombatCarry.com yet? Several CGN members are on that board now. There is a possiblity that there will be a Canadian section started on CC soon.
Also, there is a very good chance there will be truly Canadian self defence web site forum (separate from CGN) created soon.

Once again, from the Newbie Moderator here, welcome!
Have a look at the Newbie FAQ section. A link can be found in my signature line below.
I hope you enjoy your visits here!
 
My greatest respect goes to you Sharon, I wrote, and encouraged others to as well. The solicitor general's comments were tactless and spoke for everyone in a way most everyone wouldn't speak. My female best friend, also a shooter, has the same viewpoints as you and wrote to inform him she was offended he just called her irresponsible for her viewpoints.

Nicely done, and a great fight you've started, we're all proud. You've gone farther than many of us ever have or will.
 
Hi Sharon, many thanks for speaking out & welcome. Hopefully all your trials & tribulations will be rewarded.

Kevin
 
Welcome Sharon and Thomas. This really is one of THE best gun sites anywhere, let alone Canadian. Sharon, thank you for your courage in all of this. Especially because you are a female who wants to be armed. And an NDPer (we'll forgive you for that :D ) but you can try to help them see the light from within.

Seriously, best wishes. This is a very knowledgable, supportive and politically active group, and I'm glad we've got such a great bunch on our side.
 
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