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#994255 - 03/10/05 02:59 PM
Are guns bad ?
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I was just on the cc mag website and in the article "Bizzare Busts" they say something that aggrevated me very much so, they call they guy who killed the 4 RCMP officers in canada a "psychotic gun nut" just because someone owns a gun doesn't mean they are psychotic. This is just as ignorant as both of our countries considering cannabis to be a hard drug. That statement seemed very Reefer Madness like. I own many guns I also grow marijuana and smoke it often, I must be as Psycho as they come. No offense to the magazine, but it just reminded of the ignorance that our governments have toward marijuana. I mean the guy who did it probably was psychotic, but that doesn't mean him being a gun nut made any of a difference. i consider my self a gun nut and i assure you i have never killed anyone.
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#994261 - 03/10/05 04:50 PM
Re: Are guns bad?
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Newbie
Registered: 07/11/03
Posts: 49
Loc: Vancouver, BC
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Of course liking guns doesn't make you a bad person or a criminal. In fact, statistically speaking, the more armed a society, the lower the level of crime -- at least if major statistical studies of the United States hold any weight.
Cannabis Culture and the BC Marijuana Party, it appears, are practicing an unethical political strategy: divert the state's aggression onto other groups so that they don't come after you. Put another way: defend your freedom by any means, including at the expense of the freedom of others.
The police opportunistically blamed marijuana for the death of the four Mounties, so Kirk Tousaw, BC Marijuana Party campaign manager, replies on the BCMP blog, by calling for a crack down on guns. This amounts to nothing more than: "don't come after us, go after them." Instead of standing up for the rights of all peaceful citizens, Kirk calls for a crackdown on another group that could possibly suffer as a result of state opportunism: law-abiding gun owners.
Reverend Damuzi's reporting on the CC website has come up of short of calling for crack down on gun owners, but it has nonetheless implied that people who own and enjoy firearms are a problem.
Marc Emery's comments in the Province -- IF HE WAS QUOTED ACCURATELY -- were also disappointing. He seemed to suggest that because James Roszko was around guns growing up, he was more likely to engage in cop killing. And I put forward this criticism as a HUGE fan of Marc. He's been one of the top libertarians in Canada's history. I don't understand why he would say such a thing. My guess is that he may have been misquoted.
My only hope is that this trend will not continue. Peaceful people under attack by the state need to unite together to battle oppression. We should not point fingers at each other. This will allow oppressive elements of the state to divide and conquer.
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#994262 - 03/10/05 05:08 PM
Re: Are guns bad?
[Re: MichaelCust]
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 03/21/02
Posts: 1760
Loc: Dullsville Ontario
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Quote:
Of course liking guns doesn't make you a bad person or a criminal. In fact, statistically speaking, the more armed a society, the lower the level of crime -- at least if major statistical studies of the United States hold any weight.
Cannabis Culture and the BC Marijuana Party, it appears, are practicing an unethical political strategy: divert the state's aggression onto other groups so that they don't come after you. Put another way: defend your freedom at any means, including at the expense of the freedom of others.
The police opportunistically blamed marijuana for the death of the four Mounties, so Kirk Tousaw, BC Marijuana Party campaign manager, replies on the BCMP blog, by calling for a crack down on guns. This amounts to nothing more than: "don't come after us, go after them." Instead of standing up for the rights of all peaceful citicizens, Kirk calls for a crackdown on another group that could possibly suffer as a result of state opportunism: law-abiding gun owners.
Reverend Damuzi's reporting on the CC website has come up of short of calling for crack down on gun owners, but it has nonetheless implied that people who own and enjoy firearms are a problem.
Marc Emery's comments in the Province -- IF HE WAS QUOTED ACCURATELY -- were also disappointing. He seemed to suggest that because James Roszko was around guns growing up, he was more likely to engage in cop killing. And I put forward this criticism as a HUGE fan of Marc. He's been one of the top libertarians in Canada's history. I don't understand why he would say such a thing. My guess is that he may have been misquoted.
My only hope is that this trend will not continue. Peaceful people under attack by the state need to unite together to battle oppression. We should not point fingers at each other. This will allow oppressive elements of the state to divide and conquer.
What you said!
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