Gun Control

[lars573]

This I disagree with - proper gun use negates the issue around ownership. If people who owned weapons treated them with the responsiblity inherient with ownership - the ownership of weapons would not be an issue. A nation that serves a good examble of this is Switzerland (SP) and a few other nations where militia weapons are assigned and stored in individual homes.

I don't see it that way.

However you still approach the area with a baised viewpoint about restricting ownership, which is why I was initially obtruse.

I believe that gun ownership for sport, however distastful I find it, isn't inherently wrong. I believe very limited gun ownership should be allowed.

Well this gives ammunition to stroke the far right's fear's about gun registration for the United States. This is exactly the fear of many individuals concerning gun control. I don't necessarily believe that the United States will take that course of action with gun registration, but it does provide international presedence of just such a thing happening.

Well that's only part 1. Part 2 is how a registry initative that the Liberals promised would curb illegal guns, and only cost 100 million. Didn't curb anything illegal, and ended up costing 1 billion dollars. It caused legal and responsible gun owners to be treated like ex cons. If you legislation ends up treating people doing the right thing like crooks then your legislation is bad, IMO.

I don't have a problem with that viewpoint at all. I don't believe hunting from a tree blind is fair to the game either. (One of the primary reasons why I do not hunt in Texas is just this. I prefer hunting in the open where I have to have some woodcraft.)

I don't know if there is limits on how you can hunt with a bow here. Other than bow season for deer starts a month before gun season.


[QUOTE=Terrain often dictates what weapon is best for hunting. I wouldn't want to go hunting for moose even with a gun - happen to watch a Bull Moose win a fight with a Volkswagon bug one day. Rather humorous to watch after knowing that the driver was able to escape.[/QUOTE]
When my dad was around 7 he went ot a family gathering in a plae called Brookside. It's where my grand dad was born. Anyway my uncle and him were playing at the river bank when they happened upon a bull Moose. They startled it and it chased them. All the way back to the family homestead. Grand-dad scared it off some how. Also my neighbour who has aboriginal status went Moose hunting in September. Bagged a bull.