Jethro
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Post by Jethro on Dec 5, 2003 16:36:54 GMT -5
Here is what the Canadian Gov't thinks of petitions and the people:
We have 10 provinces and 3 territories that make up Canada. Of these 13 units only 2 passed the necessary legislation needed to endorse the gun registration laws. The other 11 units overwhelmingly voted it down. So the Canadian Government decided to ignore the citizens of the 11 units and passed the laws anyways. ANd us stupid canadians voted the government into office again right afterwards. In Alberta, where I live, there have been petitions galore, even organized "revolts" against the laws. The federal gov't could care less and continues to implement their billions of dollars spent on this and asks for more. Well, they don't ask, they take.
Anybody who has ever seen a canadian commercial knows the saying, "I AM CANADIAN"
but sometimes it sucks....
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Post by dubbleakshun on Dec 5, 2003 18:10:53 GMT -5
If Ford still has the Truck Plant in Toronto,it would be a good time for Americans to begin a boycott in protest of what our Neighbors to the North is going through.Would the British possibly have a hand in this wrong doing?
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Jethro
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Post by Jethro on Dec 5, 2003 18:25:04 GMT -5
I believe it is a small group of Ontario residents and a few B.C. residents that are fed a daily dose of misinformation on the holy horrors of the death and destruction in the USA caused by handguns (and firearms in general). Because one person is seriously irresponsible and leaves his gun available and his kid plays with it and shoots his friend and or someone is so unfeeling and uncaring about others that he uses a firearm in an illegal activity, it means that guns are the cause of all evil in this world and human beings have absolutely no ability (or responsibility) to handle or own firearms safely.
If guns cause crime, do matches cause arson? Ban Matches!!! Vive le cold, uncooked dinners!!;D
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Post by dubbleakshun on Dec 5, 2003 18:41:37 GMT -5
If the law abidding citizens of the United ( divided ) States are stripped of the right to bear arms,the entire country will either fall under marshall law,or resort to primitive warfare in self protection.I prefer the latter, if the worse were to happen.
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Post by Terrapin on Dec 5, 2003 20:20:41 GMT -5
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Post by The Jeffly Has Spoken on Dec 6, 2003 3:08:12 GMT -5
Absolutely right on. I need to bookmark that thing and throw it all over the internet.
And think about this: Several times more people die in Automobile accidents than from guns each year. Despite the fact that a disproportionate share of these are caused by gross negligence like driving drunk, it is clear that automobiles are 2-ton deathtraps in the hands of people who are clearly not able to make decisions for themselves.
I think the course of action is clear: We need to ban cars immediately. At least that law would be enforcible.
End of sarcastic rant. Fight the power, brothers!
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Post by dubbleakshun on Dec 6, 2003 13:09:15 GMT -5
Aggressive drivers kill other motorists on the hiways of this country every day,getting away with cold blooded calus murder in the first degree,and never spend one second of jail time for their crime.What the law views as accidents on the roads,others will percieve as gross negligence,contributing and resulting to the cause of death for many innocent bystanders.The road rage artists have a method they use for causing another car to over turn by cutting the back bumper of their car into the front of another,throwing that car into an aggressive turn at a hi rate of speed.It's a common occurance to see overturned vehilces,but it gets worse when all the other cars pile into it while the artists escapes on open road.If you want to see ignorant drivers,come to Atlanta,,Georgia,we get them from all over the world,and many do not even possess a drivers license.
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Post by Terrapin on Dec 7, 2003 0:30:50 GMT -5
Well, there is no Constitutional amendment guaranteeing a right to drive  European drivers in general have to go through a lot more to get a drivers' license than we do here, including several hours of supervised driving, like a pilot's license. I grew up in Indiana, when I was in high school drivers' ed wasn't even offered, and getting a drivers' license was answering 10 questions and taking an eye exam, not even a driving test. HOWEVER, even though European drivers know the rules much better, don't pass on the left and don't camp at low speeds in the left lane, etc., European auto accident rates are as bad as or higher than ours, EXCEPT on their highways (Autobahn, Autostrada) where it is lower despite the much higher speed limits. I remember this from a defensive driving course I took in order to qualify for a lower insurance rate: the large majority of fatal traffic accidents happen within a mile of one's home and at less than 35 miles an hour. Here's a controversial tidbit: a driver's chance of being involved in a fatal accident goes up dramatically after age 75... but the stats say it's not highway deaths, meaning we could make our surface streets safer by revoking drivers licenses after age 75 or requiring retesting to keep them... DA, road rage in the almost unbelieveably bad traffic around the Atlanta area where you live must be pretty common, eh? It's not so bad here in Baltimore yet but just down 95 in DC it sure is... |
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Post by Callahan on Dec 7, 2003 2:32:30 GMT -5
I got on the D.C. Beltway in Aug-Sept 2001 one afternoon and could not believe how bad the traffic was. I thought Houston traffic was bad! It's nothing compared to WDC...
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Post by dubbleakshun on Dec 7, 2003 12:04:43 GMT -5
Terrapin;The bad traffic situation in Atlanta is due to many things,including the migration of 500 plus new residents to the state on a daily basis,a very busy Interstate 75 running down the middle of Atlanta,and a growth in land development which contributes to traffic congestion.One careless wreck on I-75 will put a web of traffic sytems surrounding Atlanta to a stop for many hours.Most who reside in the Atlanta area are from up north or other parts of the world,few natural born Georgians have inhabited that portion of the State for many years now.
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