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Originally Posted by Rhesus
No, there's nothing positive about having a gun. There's no such thing as a balance in this discussion, you must be a complete fool to think so.
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hmm..no positives?
Ever try to hunt a moose with a spoon? Evidently you didn't think things out before you typed huh?
I own guns, I hunt. They're not for protection (no one that knows me would attempt to harm me or enter my house without permission, I have dogs that handle that). My guns are for one purpose only, killing large tasty meat bearing animals.
Now here's a little lesson for the guys out there that would feel safer if guns didn't exist.
1. To own a gun, here you have to pass a criminal background check, apply for a course, take a course which you have to pass with a high mark, apply for the permit to own one, go through a background check (that includes calling your ex girlfriends et et) and then receive your permit in the mail. This process can take over 5 months with no criminal background and no history of fights et. et.
2. To legally store or transport a gun, it must be...
Locked
Trigger locked
Stored separate from ammunition
Not visible
Have it's "action" disabled or locked
3. Most gun related deaths (at least in canada) are from weapons that are smuggled into the country from the USA. Many have never been registered.
Interesting in a country with as many guns as we have, less than 10% of all gun crime is committed with a registered gun, to listen to the anti-gun groups you'd think all these weapon owning people are timebombs waiting to go off.
Unfortunately, the facts don't seem to fit their arguments.