Toronto, Canada, is about to become the first North American city of over 500,000 inhabitants to become gun-crime free. All it took was the courage and determination of Toronto’s resolute mayor and the farsightedness of the Toronto city council:
In June, city council voted to close down two shooting ranges on city premises — one at the Don Montgomery Community Recreation Centre in Scarborough, the other at Union Station. Following the death of bystander John O’Keefe who was gunned down with a legally registered weapon last winter, Mayor David Miller said, “I don’t think there’s any defence for sport shooters anymore… It’s a hobby that creates danger to others.”
I’ll keep this in mind the next time my family and I spend a day at our local gun club, where we’ll go though about 200 rounds of .45 auto; 200 rounds of 9mm; 200 rounds of 40 cal.; and about 500 rounds of .22. We will, each and every one of us, drink in the freedom and common sense of Western Canada and thank our lucky stars that we haven’t been infected with the strange brain disease that afflicts so many who live in Canada’s Toronto shit-pit.
crossposted @ Cjunk
h ryan.. Yea I guess Is shouldn’t tsk tsk a fool. (Don’t want to hurt any feelings) Yea we all did foolish things when we were young. I was raised to have more respect for firearms than to be a fool with one.
One more time, I can’t repeat it enough, cops come to homicide scenes only to collect evidence and call the coroner. It’s always after the fact. That big hulking creep in your bedroom at 3am or the crack addled rapist hiding near your car in a darkened lot or the Columbine wannabe on your campus, he’s your problem and not the cops when he initially makes his move.
I suspect that simpering gutless lefties die more needlessly in Texas. France last year and it continues unabated had 39,000 cars burned – 102 per night – amazing isn’t it, private property means nothing there. The cops are useless obviously. I’d love to see that in any American city where our Second Amendment gives us the right to a warning shot fired off of the porch.
The left are whimpering idiots. These are the same people that seek a dialogue with scum of the earth terrorists based on root causes as exculpating.
And, good on Texas, they are passing a right to carry arms on campus bill. The next little Virginia Tech mass murderer won’t have the campus to himself for an hour. I doubt that the moronic self-loathing Marxist feminist and her/his ilk will appreciate their good fortune in Texas.
Jeez, talk about delusional. Doesn’t Manitoba have an NDP government? Did not The Greatest Canadian Fascist Tommy Douglas come from Saskatchewan? The prairies have historically been Canada’s second biggest welfare queens right after Newfoundland.
Posted by: fozzy at August 24, 2008 7:30 PM
I’ll speak slowly K? NFL=Hibernia, mass amounts of oil money into the economy unilike the automotive welfare scam. Fords suck, Chevs suck and so do the other Western models at insane pay scale you’d think they could put a vehicle that isn’t trash on the road but alas the workers can’t. Onto Hebron/NFL snicker how much money does Torona got invested in that project? NONE, they’re broke. Now onto Little Church Hill Falls, it sucks to be Quebec, is going strong. As for Manitoba, well yes they are NDP so what so is BC snicker most of the time-hug a tree and vote NDP it’s called IMMIGRATION and selling your culture down the tubes for the VOTE. I’d rather be dead than red, unlike Torona who’d rather be on welfare or subsidised by the “Big Goberment” or we shant vote for you. Well Dah a leftard riding threatening the Cons is too funny, BC and Alberta are the big dogs on the porch to funny. Losers, L to the forhead marxists. Torona has no power left-no pun intented, unless you consider welfare/polygamist/Islamist/gangbangers etc. voters powerful LOL it must suck to be a have not province with a taste for fine wine on a beer budget. Get use to it fellas, you are a have not province whilst NS and NFL have snicker OIL. Cheer up you have “Spits-Diversity and Multiculture and gang warfare” you must be so snicker proud.
Remember stop drop and roll in Torona, Miller banned rifle ranges but is comfortable with gang warfare for the transfer payments. Poor nobody Torona, first you lose special status as somebody and then to add insult to injury you become the most vile city to live in because you sold your soul to marxism and socialism.
In the East we call Torona the “Arm pit” of the world for a reason, ya all stink. Well not all Toronians just the leftards.
Rob c …Too bad your parents didn’t raise you not to be a fool with your mouth,or your spelling for that matter.
Kate I’m tired of my responses be censored for moderation yet the left post at will. I won’t bother this forum again. I didn’t realise that my responses were so offensive they needed to be vetted. It won’t happen again.
So sorry, the left can attack but I must be censored. Thanks but no thanks, it’s so Steven Harper thou.
A woman of words and not deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.
I guess it’s a left and right blog thang, it’s not about opinions or issues but really a pupularity contests. Thanks but I’m too old to play which wing of the school I’m allowed to hang out in.
God Bless America, at least I can have an opinion that doesn’t cower the right leaning cons and the left leaning liberals and the left leaning NDP. No guts no glory should be Canada’s motto. Er hsve neither.
Over and out.
So sorry, Rose. Your comments have been feisty, food for thought, and forthright.
I’ve been getting caught in the filter a lot lately too.
Rose:
I thought the same as you. Its just her new server acting tempermental. At one point maybe 1 in 3 posts got threw the filter. There are certain words that kick it in as well. If you go back latter you will find the post. Sometimes its says the post could not be published, but it shows up any way. The web has mysteries we yet have to uncover. I bet you deollars to donuts they still have posts of mine at AOL from 96.
Rose >
Same here. I thought a few of mine must have been a little “over the top” and denied, but turns out it’s random……….
I used to live in Moronto.
Now the Pakis can have it….
Rose,I too have had problems. I don’t think it is a left/right thing but a computer glitch thing. I am a strong conservative,and a few of my postings have not gone through. They were my best ones too.
Another thought,haye/new/isam/retard,is still coming up.
h.ryan: “I did this in my twenties and was young and foolish,but to blame me for negative stereo types,it’s you who is the fool,you and aek can go tsk tsk elsewhere.”
Young, foolish, and (presumably now) smarter weren’t attributes you initially described of yourself when you claimed you shot a pellet gun at a cigarette fixed in your friend’s lips.
In retrospect, perhaps you considered it an ethical act to convince your friend to stop smoking…
More good news is that you didn’t try to remove the cigarette with a shot gun, which would have certainly qualified you both for a Darwin Award, and possibly a government grant to make a CBC documentary blaming society.
In any case, a funny story and I’m glad you’re both still alive and hopefully a bit wiser.
Like taxpayers paying for clean needles doesn’t? Like keeping violent immigrants here doesn’t? Like abortion doesn’t!
aek…You are right,I should have stated the fact of being young and foolish,an ethical act to convince my friend to quit smoking,good one.
Rose….have no fear. The filter gets us all once or twice. You know computers and their server glitches.
wallyj….new/haye/it/retardo keeps showing up because there is no filter for gibberish yet.Hell.It takes to long to develop one just for the 300 odd known languages.
I had it explained to me that if you have an illegal weapon just make sure its clean including the ammunition. The story goes that if you have to use it you simply say it was his gun and you disarmed him. The second part is to have a very simple well thought out story rehearsed in your mind to give to the police. Even if they suspect they still have to prove and dead men don’t talk.
As far as the actual risk, as defined by insurance underwriters, belonging to a gun club usually has a premium of less than 10 dollars a year.
I find the underwriters opinion much more informed than the mayor of Toronto.
Cjunk, you are a LUCKY MAN. I haven’t been to the range since I moved back here to this IDIOT province from the States. Didn’t feel like getting pulled over and asked “You haff ze papieren for zis gun?” by the OPP. No doubt they taser you on the spot if they are not in order.
I contrast this with the cops in Arizona. “Niiiice rifle, buddy!”
I used to compete in High Power Rifle class, now I just think about it. I don’t even know where you could shoot a High Power match in Ontario outside an army base.
It’s too bad the citizen’s of Tyranto a.k.a. North Detroit aren’t waking up to inevitable losses they are facing with Miller, McGuinty, et al.
Phantom: I feel for you. The only hope is for Ontarian gun owners to organize and set up ranges … if the red tape and loones will allow it.
The Saskatoon Gun Club is a busy place. When the registry first came out, you couldn’t find a handgun in our gunshops, now, they’re selling like hotcakes and the range is busy. And best of all, lots of young people, with parents, or young adults, are using the range. Pistols and .22 are very popular. The high Canuck dollar has made ammo affordable and the registration process, at least here, is very quick.
My bought a glock, registered it, got my transport permits, and was shooting it at the range same day.
Love the prairies.
What in the heck does a local gun ordinance have to do with Fords and Chevys, Rose? I beg to differ about the quality of the vehicles. I’ve been driving them for longer than I care to relate and have suffered a single breakdown which was the result of a dealer installing an electrical device that was designed for a different make and model. While that did result in a humilating breakdown on the Bay Bridge approach during the Sunday afternoon rush, one can’t blame GM.
The gun ban really isn’t a big deal. Drive over to Detroit. It’s my understanding they have pistols laying around on the street.
Ultimately, the difference between the U. S. and Canada is that one is comprised of the successors of true colonials, the other of pioneers. That is a difference as broad as the Amazon. At the end of the day, we could use a little more discipline and patience and you should park outside the lines now and then.
Cam: “I find the underwriters opinion much more informed than the mayor of Toronto.”
The understatement of the year! LOL!!!
A potato’s opinion, it seems to me, would be more informed than the mayor of Toronto…
“Other than that can anyone name a significant instance of Canadian civil disobedience? (Hacking your satellite receiver to circumvent the CRTC doesn’t count!)”
KPD at August 24, 2008 4:19 PM
Voting down Mulroney’s Charlottetown Accord, civil disobedience at it’s finest.
(it made Joe Clark cry too so it was a twofer)
Yeah, a pretty stupid move but mayors come and go. I’ve lived in Western Canada and Toronto, and, all things considered, I’d sooner live in Toronto than some buttf*ck town on the prairies. Nothing personal.
Posted by: christopher rivers at August 24, 2008 12:50 PM
Well Christopher Rivers, we who are proud westerners would like very much to see your sorry retarded butt leaving and heading back to Moronto or wherever you came from. And the sooner the better. Need help packing???? I’m sure we can round up a few volunteers.
and don’t let the door slam your butt on the way back……
Good one Oz,
How about all of the Canadian patriots smuggling beer and cigs across the border in the 80’s from Alberta to Montana during the beer strikes.
Nothing felt more Canadian and patriotic for me than driving down Highway 22x doing about 80 mph on the gravel through Turner Valley, sucking on an ice cold Miller or Coors, smoking a Camel, and on the lookout for the killjoy Dudley Dorights.
Those were definitely the days.
When legitimate gun-owners have lost all of their rights, they’ll have you to thank.
The ant-gun control camp’s refusal to participate in democratic discussion, even going so far as to mock the process like we see here, only serves to perpetuate the general public’s dislike of guns.