The Halifax Chronicle Herald wants to know.
Or do they? A reader has emailed privately with suspicions. It should be relatively easy to find out – at time of posting, the poll shows a response of 25% for yes, 75% no (with 4025 votes cast). A few hundred “yes” votes should swing that ratio pretty quickly. Let’s give it a try, shall we?
Welome back Kate.
I have a couple of Capers living with me that say that’s normal.
Did ya hear about the latest on the Darren Varley thing?
Syncro
Total Votes Received: 4066
Yes 1024 25 %
No 3042 75 %
Not so much “back” as I am checking in with a couple of days downtime before we head to Michigan. Looks like the place is in good hands!
It’s all good. Drive safe.
Syncro
Kate, while your attention is here, any thoughts on the Domi/Stronach thing? As a Sens fan, I find it very hard to remain charitable or even neutral as the two embody my most deeply held dislikes. [snorts milk out nose while suppressing guffaw]
Doogie, as a fellow Sens fan, I hear ya! lol
if she gets re-elected, it is really going to say something about the lack of integrity, morals and judgement of her constituents…i mean, really…..leaf goon??????they could have at least done the decent thing and waited until he left his wife….wait…that would take integrity…what am i saying…lol
Bummer, voting is closed on that. 🙁
Glad you popped in Kate, even if it is for a short while. It is amazing how the trolls come out when you take to the road but that is to be expected.
BTW, I was reading another blog (Angry…, I think) and was amazed at the number of people that came out to rant on you. You are directly related to Atilla the Hun if those whiners are to be believed. Keep it up, eh.
As a Leaf fan all I can say is that Belinda obviously knows that the Sen’s players aren’t worth a f***. 🙂
Sens fans?
Admitting it in public?
On our streets too.
I’m not making this up.
Go Leafs Go.
Domi and Belinda, isn’t that just special. Well, Miss B better be prepared, if he’ll screw around on his wife, Miss B just might be in for a suprise… Only thing that could have been better is if she had run for the leader of the Liberal’s. Then the old boys would of had something really hot to fight over!
Kingstonlad: 100% right! No morals, judgement or values. Perfect fit with the Lier’s Club.
Sorry I went of topic but they now have a new poll up. Hurry back Kate! Drive safe.
They say that people don’t grow up any faster than they have too. So if you’re the indulged daughter of a millionaire that maybe means never.
She’s screwed up the lives of her own two kids and now she’s working on the doing the same to three others.
It’s time for Belinda Stronach to be the first contestant on a new CBC television series. A combo of The Greatest Canadian, Life and Times and Canadian Idol.
Canadian Slapper or maybe The Greatest Canadian Slapper
Margret Trudeau would be the host.
Is this affair the reason she did not run for the leadership. Speaking of turncoats, I notice Keith Martin does not look too happy these days. Made a bad decision, but glad BS crossed the floor. We do not need women like her. No wonder she supports abortion, might need one herself, but who would the father be. BS was supposedly involved in the Unite the Right, will she now be involved in Uniting the Wrong, aka libs and ndp.
My answer would have been: “not yet, but I will if you keep asking such stupid questions”.
Back to owning firearms…; Alberta has now announced an amnesty program.
A caller to Rutherford yesterday is concerned about potentially valuable guns (historical sig., or otherwise) being lost forever. He had some valid concerns.
They suggested donating guns to Fish & Game clubs etc. to find suitable collectors, and as a fundraiser. Sounds like a good idea for conservation groups such as Ducks Unlimited.
> A caller to Rutherford yesterday is concerned
> about potentially valuable guns (historical sig.,
> or otherwise) being lost forever. He had some
> valid concerns.
I don’t think this is the major concern of gun control regulations.
Sure, the rifle used to shoot Kennedy and the Musket used to kill Aaron Burr have historical significance (particularly in a country where every girl and boy can grow up to be the president, or grow up to be the president’s killer.)
They might be culturally valuable but the number of such guns in circulation is marginal in comparison to the gun problem that exists in the world.
BTW; our PC’s are sounding a bit Liberalish.
I’m curious to know if they consulted the new Harper Government re: their plans, and the need for an amnesty. Is the Alberta Gov. in a hurry? After all the talk of not enforcing the Liberal’s implemented gun laws, now they are in a hurry to get Albertans on the straight and narrow?
It has not been announced that owners of these “illegal” guns can sell to or consign them through the local licenced firearms stores. I think it is wrong that the officals have not made this option known. There will be people (generaly seniors) turning perfectly good firearms for distruction when they could be getting payed for them.
“They might be culturally valuable but the number of such guns in circulation is marginal in comparison to the gun problem that exists in the world.”
Speaking of guns as only being culturally valuable because they were used by a human to kill a human is the viewpoint of the non-gun owning and anti-gun side. Some of the old rifles that fed families and pistols that kept folks safe are certainly of cultural signigance. Not to the hopolophobic’s but to most rural Canadians they certainly are. Seeing a fine old side by side shotgun getting cut up is sickening.
We here in Canada don’t have a gun problem, we’ve got a very small minority people problem with guns and for very silly “head in the sand” views, we don’t go after them.
Strange Brew
Obviously Darcy has never owned firearms or any antiques for that matter. What a firearms collector would find valuable, you see it as another montreal massacre. Doesn’t matter that the piece might be a genuine muzzle loader from the 19th century or a gold inlaid presentation piece that was given to say Teddy Roosevelt, they are all the same to you. And that is a pity since a firearm is a tool that was instrumental in the history of western civilization. As I mentioned earlier, your great great grandpappy didn’t go to Safeway to get supper for the family. The British in Upper Canada (future Canucks) repelled the invading Americans in 1812 with more than a stern letter to the American ambassador. Like it or not, firearms were used in the making of Canada and the US.
Some firearms are passed on from generation to generation and as such have value as a part of the family history. It might not even get fired but it is a piece of history. Something my grandfather had that ends up with me has great signifigance and sentimental value.
By the way, automobiles kill more people than guns. Does that mean that I cannot pass on my ’29 Model A ford to my son when the time comes? It won’t make a good getaway car and a pedestrian would have to be pretty slow to get run over but hey, it is an automobile…
I can see where the HNS Herald is going with such a smug question….the implication is that if there are more people without personal firearms than with them, dyslexic Librano logic dictates we ban them because, in the mental illness of modern dogmatic liberalism, the tyranny of the mob is always justified if it furthers the secular authoratrian Liberal single party police state.
But how accurate is a poll that asks Firearms owners to identify themselves?
As for their question: well, 7 million Canadians used to have “firearms” until police-state Liberals and degenerate Menshevik leftists from Quebec started talking about criminalizing Canadians who own them and making lists to aid in stealing/banning them…. millions of owners and guns magically disappeared from the long gun registry system and if asked now… these people simply say they have “golf clubs” in the cases they load in the trunk once a year in the fall. 😉
Their unregistered “golf clubs” are about as much threat to society as their unregistered firearms were previous to the registry fraud….but it becomes obvious now, these people, with unregistered “golf clubs” will not leave a paper trail that will lead police state goons to their door step to kick it in and stick a machine gun in their ear, searching for banned civilian firearms, when the true nature of civilian firearms registration reveals its uncivil confiscation ugliness.
The liberal statists tipped their hat early in the registry administration by staging theatriacal “swat raids” on high profile firearms collectors and businesses…all in an ill conceived attept to intimidate resistant firearms owners into the registration system…this was years before the deadline for registry and it served only to convince millions of owners that the government’s motives could not be trusted.
Remember that 3 leftist and statist Liberal leaders have already promised confiscation and that the registry would be used to locate the firearms for this…also be aware that the liberal apparatichiks in the firearms registry bureaucracy realize compliance with the registry is (in reality)less than 50%…why do you think the CPC offered a 1 year amnesty to register un registered long arms?….do you suppose it is because the liberal gun control bureaucrats lied about there only being 3 million firearms owners when they knew the RCMP records estimate of 7 million was more accurate….do you suppose they had to do this to make it appear the registry was not a dismal failure when in fact most firearms owners did not comply?….also remeber that the low compliance was based in distrust of government motives…those with golf clubs will not have to endure the brutal machinations of the looming left wing police state confiscations 😉
In the wake of the Gill murder, we see the confiscation motives for the registry being affirmed and openly admitted to by the left wing statist politicians calling for bans.
It is also best to remember that bacause so many people did not comply with registration, the chances of confiscating all the privately owned firearms they want is a pipe dream…..then again they will lie about that too….that’s all these creepy statists do.
So if you are one of these indoctrinated lemmings that think that “gun contol” is a Canadian value and it works and it is the reason we have lower crime rates that the US ( which is also a lie) just remember most owners have not complied with the registry and criminals never do…so if we have low crime rates its because the bulk of unregistered firearms owners are in fact responsible.
All dictators and tytranys support gun control its easier to then go in and round up unarmed citizens and send them to concentration camps
Belinda, Canada’s answer to Paris Hilton. No brains, no morals.
If Magna Barbie had as many pricks sticking out of her as she’s had stuck in her, she’d be a porcupine.
Potentially, all the firearms they are looking for could be old & valuable as the reasoning the guest gave; was that they’re offering a chance for widows etc. to safely dispose of guns that were left behind by a passing spouse, grand parent etc. They’re ‘guilting’ these people into disposing of them before they forget where they are and either; a crook or grand child comes across them. The guest used the analogy that it is similar to cleaning out their medicine cabinets, kitchen of poison, or garage of paint.
I just heard Edmonton’s new Police Cheif speaking about this. Sounds as if he is bringing his big city, Liberal ideas to Alberta. I wonder how much all of this has to do with the PC leadership race?
Hey, Darcy, there isn’t a “gun problem” if you are on the right side of the law. There isn’t a “gun problem” if a serial rapist or murderer is at large in your neighborhood. There isn’t a “gun problem” if it’s 3am and you got a male stranger at the foot of your bed. There isn’t a “gun problem” if you share a yard with snakes and sometimes suspiciously rabid wild critters. There isn’t a “gun problem” if you are a convenience store clerk in a bad neighborhood and the more common leave-no-witnesses thug strolls in. It’s a LACK of a gun that’s the problem in those paradigms most of the time.
Cops aren’t going to make in time. It’s why they are called crime scenes. Past tense.
There are mechanism in place to separate the bad guys from guns – the cops and background checks. Not perfect, but, nothing is. Disarming every citizen, as if they are children, is not only degrading, it can cost you your life. There will always be club wielding Neandertals, highwaymen, pirates, armed criminals, add terrorists now, among us. Good luck with 911 in any of the scenerios I’ve described.
Stop drinking the lefty’s Kool-aid. Real men drink beer.
Real women too.
There aren’t “gun problems” in the world, just “government problems” Guns make or break governments, usually when they need it. There is a reason why governments don’t want you to have guns, and its not because you might shoot your neighbour…
Well said Skip. WHy did Stalin disarm all POW’s and returning soldiers after WWII? Why were all German people disarmed before Hitler started rounding up people? Think about Historical facts people!!
“Disarming every citizen, as if they are children, is not only degrading, it can cost you your life”.
Great post, Penny. And you’ve some good company on those thoughts – none other than Mark Steyn. Bet you’ll like these:
w3(d0t).freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/924072/posts
moorewatch.com/index.php/when_governments_ban_guns/
(there’s no w3 in the last link)
mhb23re
(email is above u/name at google webmail service)
Thanks for the link, mhb. Steyn says a mouthful with a glaring statistic that the pc addled numbskulls just won’t say out loud:
“This basic approach of addressing any cultural factors apart from the ones that correlate was pioneered by American progressives. The corpulent provocateur Michael Moore, in his film Bowling for Columbine, currently delighting British audiences, spends an entire feature-length documentary investigating the “culture” of American gun violence without mentioning that blacks, who make up 13 per cent of the population, account for over half the murders (and murder victims, too). Once you factor them out, Americans kill at about the same rate as nancy-boy Canadians.”
Bottomline, unlike our Canadian and Brit counterparts, we are armed to the teeth and aren’t across most segments of our society doing each other in with abandon.
4000 replies represents absolutely nothing! Just heard that there are over 70,000 bird hunting licences issued in Saskatchewan every year. That means there are alot of guns in this province – many times more than 70,000. I wonder how many of them are registered. Not many I bet.
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No gun registry means it’s easier to get guns. I think.
If these liberal news rags want to know how many gun we have its not any of their buiness pluck those snooping vultures SQUWAK SQUAWK
Hey, Darcy, there isn’t a “gun problem” if you are on the right side of the law. There isn’t a “gun problem” if a serial rapist or murderer is at large in your neighborhood. … It’s a LACK of a gun that’s the problem in those paradigms most of the time.
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… There will always be club wielding Neandertals, …
Stop drinking the lefty’s Kool-aid. Real men drink beer.
Posted by: penny at September 26, 2006
Thanks for the link, mhb. Steyn says a mouthful with a glaring statistic that the pc addled numbskulls just won’t say out loud:
“… blacks, who make up 13 per cent of the population, account for over half the murders (and murder victims, too). Once you factor them out, Americans kill at about the same rate as nancy-boy Canadians.”
Bottomline, unlike our Canadian and Brit counterparts, we are armed to the teeth and aren’t across most segments of our society doing each other in with abandon.
Posted by: penny at September 26, 2006 10:03 PM
Penny, I don’t suppose it would be fair to ask if you have a source for your assertion in the second post that African Americans are the sole reason why gun related deaths are higher in the US.
As for the earlier post, no responsible party in this nation has ever advocated the use of guns for personal protection.