Supreme Court says Americans have right to guns

RUEZ @ Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:51 pm
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
RUEZ RUEZ:
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
So you are telling me that the Pride of being Canadian is held simply by how much our government taxes us compared to the Americans?

Can you point out where I said that, I can't find it anywhere. My pride in being Canadian stems from many different things. Unlike yours which come from basically not being American.
You claim that I will hold no pride because of our taxes.
But our taxes are only high if you compare them to America's.
So technically it's you imposing your belief that I can only get pride by how Canada ranks to America. Which isn't true.
Are you drunk again? Or you just have trouble reading?
$1:
I'll still be celebrating knowing that the taxation is much less then in other parts of the world. Taxation or not, really, I don't care if it was 80%.
$1:
:lol: So says the boy who pays no income tax.
Perhaps I should have bolded it like I just did so that you would understand what my response was directed at.


Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
]Because other ways need to be found. In Canada, I see NO USE FOR THEM. Perhaps in America, Land of The Armed, but not here in Canada. Having a gun for protection in Canada is like walking around with a Chinese Interpretor. "Better Safe Then Sorry" taken to far.
We might as well take away all guns from the police too. And tasers, and pepper spray. Its Canada, there's nothing that can go wrong.
Listen to yourself. I'm not advocating going around giving out free guns, but if somebody wants a gun for protection, for hunting. Let them. Why should we ban things just because you think there's no use for them?
Ban things because its un-Canadian or too American? Let's ban flags since flag waving is held to be too American, ooh and ban hamburgers and apple pie and baseball.
$1:
Who the hell DOESN'T laugh at the USA for the Patriot Act? It's a deplorable totalitarian document that turned the USA into a Fascist-ruled hell.
YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT! You are bitching about totalitarian and such, when Canada is becoming even more fascist by banning "Hate" and "Offensive" books.
I'm laughing at Canada. Sure the Patriot Act is a mess, but guess what? The Patriot Act isn't rounding up liberals and trying them for anti-conservative Speech. You write the 21st Century version of the Communist Manifesto, you get put into a Kangaroo Court. Shall I continue? No. Canada is becoming what you accuse America of being. You're barely able to see it.
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In Canada, it's what you are free FROM. In Canada you are free from almost anything that harms you. Specifically saying here, Hate. Freedom of Speech only holds one thing really, that it looks great on paper. You say it and think it's beautiful or something. Freedom of Speech is neither good, nor bad. It's absolutely neutral. It's used for Good,a nd it's used for Evil. In Canada, we choose to try and stop the evil and thus have Limited Speech.
But banning speech is a slippery slope that goes straight to dictatorship.
$1:
I can live with that. I'm sorry if you would rather people spray-painting swastika's on synagogues in Montreal go free for their excellent use of "Free Speech".
That's a seperate issue. Violating a property like that is a crime. But if that same Neo Nazi wanted to print a book full of shit. Let him. He's not harming anybody but himself.
$1:
An Armed Society... perhaps in America. And Switzerland.
But seeing Canada Armed... I could see vast errors.
I'd rather the very small 600 murders a year in an unarmed society then 600+ probable accidents, mis-fires, school shootings from kids getting hands on their parents guns, and other incidents involving psycho's getting their hands on the weaponry when it would normally be much harder to get them.
Psychos can get their hands on anything. Knives, cars, bats, saws, axes, etc etc etc. Crime doesn't stop when you ban something. Taking guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens is wrong.

Maybe this will change the focus of the gun debate in America. Maybe the USA can get off of the two horse track of guns and/or abortion rights and start to move on to more productive topics of discussion?
Tricks @ Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:02 am
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
I could apply that logic to so many things. Since criminals stab people, we should be allowed to too. Since criminals destroy property, we should be allowed to too...
Oh yeah, stabbing someone and owning a handgun are really the same thing. You're an idiot.
$1:
For now? Almost sounds like a threat. Waiting for the Conservatives to try and scare the fuck out of us all and blind the nation or something?
It is a threat. Just like there is the threat of the world coming to an end because of global warming.
$1:
And I never said safe... I said free. And the Right. Meaning those who commit Violent/Hate crimes to you will be completely punished by Canada's legal system.
And how do you propose to be free if you can't provide that freedom for yourself?
$1:
"Suit up"? And I know it's impossible, we live next to America!
Real mature, asswipe.
$1:
The school year ended like roughly 2 weeks ago.
So what? You're slow.
$1:
Pardon? You mean like... Free to own guns... but incredible hard penalties if used incorrectly? Honestly, yeah, that would be better.
Duh.
$1:
5-15 years for shooting someone in a situation where it was not needed for personal protection. Murder if the victim died, of course.
That should deter people...
How about 15 outright for criminal act with the use of a firearm. If you murder someone, you're in jail for at least 20 years.
Tricks @ Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:11 am
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
A police officer is not the same as a citizen. Technically, it's illegal for Canadian citizens to own pepper-spray or tasers. Fuck, it's illegal to own mace.
A cop may not be the same as a citizen, but that's exactly why we need them. Read 1984 when you get the time.
$1:
WHY have it?
Because it's what this country was founded on. If people thought like you 350 years ago, then we would still have slavery and mass racism. Freedom of speech is the freedom to speak what you believe or think. You take that away from someone, or put them in jail for it, you are no better than Hitler putting Jews into camps for following a certain religion.
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Lmfao, are you saying that in Canada, we are rounding up Conservatives and trying them for being Anti-Liberal? What the hell is the point of that little example? It means nothing.
Not necessarily anti-liberal, but anti-things liberals like, or even making jokes about. Look at the comedian who is in shit for making fun of two lesbians for being douchebags. That's a complete joke.
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Why would the Communist Manifesto get you put in court? Canada has HATE CRIME laws, Nothing on Politics. So what the HELL are you going on about?
By what you are saying about taking free speech away, the Communist Manifesto was really hate speech aimed at the wealthy, or Bourgeoisie. So by what you are saying, it should be illegal.
$1:
Not all Dictatorships are as bad as what your school said they were.
..... Really.... Wow..... Love to see what you mean by this.
$1:
He'd be offending, and thus hurting, thousands! I highly doubt you'd want books chanting for your death and the homicide of your entire people being placed on public book shelves! That's 20th century CRAP to let people hate.
Let people hate? You are going to try and control what they think too? Again 1984 much? Fuck, you claim America is fascist, yet you are wanting to do what America is trying to fucking stop. If they want to put a book on the shelves that's racist, or bigoted, so be it.
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See my above suggestion for high, HIGH charges for incorrect use.
That doesn't do as much as thought. Generally speaking criminals don't believe they will be caught, why commit the crime if you will be caught?
Americans repress each other like Animals. Whites don't like blacks, Blacks dont like whites, Mexicans dont like anyone, Chinese live in their own world, the Arabs all went to detroit and do their own thing and hire their own people. It's a result of too many Hwankers living in the USA. Too much backwards ass mentalities. Backwards thinkers. Repressers and repressed.
These morons (gangsters, etc) get their guns from the US anyhow. We shouldn't fight drugs if they dont want to fight guns smuggling. I say tough shit.
And for those that keep yapping about rights. Shut the fuck up. Especially regarding your (USA) government can listen to your phone conversations without a warrant. They can lock people up in Cuba for years without fair representation? RIGHTS????? RIGHTS????!!!!!!
HAHAHAAAA Please......
CommanderSock CommanderSock:
Americans repress each other like Animals. Whites don't like blacks, Blacks dont like whites, Mexicans dont like anyone, Chinese live in their own world, the Arabs all went to detroit and do their own thing and hire their own people. It's a result of too many Hwankers living in the USA. Too much backwards ass mentalities. Backwards thinkers. Repressers and repressed.
sounds like Toronto to me, or Vancouver, Montreal etc. etc.
While I cannot speak for the other cities Toronto is not too bad. The biggest bigots are usually those who bring their bullshit with them from their own countries. Doesn't matter what hue they are. Most Torontonians in their 20s went to mixed schools, public or private, therefore they are not that ignorant of other races and cultures. Inter-racial marriages are a norm here. That was not what I observed while on visiting some US cities in the East, Like New York, Detroit and Boston. Self segregation is the norm. I don't recall seeing one mixed race couple walking the streets in Boston for example, and that was a shock to me.
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Bacardi4206 Bacardi4206:
It may be just me, but am I the only one that thinks giving civilians weapons is a very stupid choice?
It may be self-defense, but every robber and bad guy is also a civilian that now gets easy access to a fire arm. I truely hope Canada does not adopt this point of view, and no that is not because I want to be different from the US (Getting really tierd of hearing that).
Right now criminals in Canada seem to have almost no impediment to obtaining firearms so the defacto situation is that the criminals are armed and the law abiding citizens are not.
And your perspective of "giving" civilians access to firearms is wrongheaded.
Citizens
allow their government access to firearms.
But, of course, therein lies the rub: Canadians are subjects who are ruled by their government and who have no rights at all, just privileges their masters can revoke at whim (see the
Notwithstanding Clause).
Perhaps in Canada you can be given privileges, such as the possession of a firearm. But in the USA the government exists by the consent of the People who are the fount of rights. We PROTECT our rights from our government, we do not ask the government for those rights.
And today the US Supreme Court codified that the rights of citizens to own firearms shall not be infringed by our government regardless of whatever reason they think may justify such an intrusion on our rights.
It isn't just about guns, you see, it is about
rights.
And the right to own a firearm to defend yourself from criminals and an excessive or tyrannical government is a basic right. Ironically, one which we understood from English Common Law as it spoke to the rights of free men. Sadly, the English are mere vassals to their government anymore and have no idea what actual rights are unless they visit the USA.
Wheres your proof that Canadian Criminals have easy access to fire-arms? Also the ones that do get them from America, from Americans who are benefiting off your rights who are just doing it to make a quick buck. So your rights are giving any Canadian with good connections to American Illegal Weapon dealers to privledge to obtain a weapon. Whats our solution for that? Should we just say the hell with it and adopt the American way of life and just give every single Canadian a fire-arm? or should we just prevent the trafficing of guns into Canada?
Also if you actually know anything about Governments, there power completly relies on the citizens that it governs. Because without citizens, there is no country, and with no country there is no government. Which is why it is every politicians wet dream to have the power to silence citizens, and stop them from protesting and rioting against there governments.
Canadians can depend a privledge if they wanted it, and if they want a privledge that there government provoked. Its called protesting.
Also you talking about Canadians having no right is laughable coming from a American who's government is constantly taking away your rights. Your government can take away any of your rights the same way a Canadian government can take away Canadians. You think just because you have guns, that your government is afraid of you? Owning a gun does not make you a hero of freedom that is protecting your rights. That is only a American fantasy.
The true power of a citizen, is the citizen itself. Not the gun the citizen owns.
As for your rights to bear arms, you are right. It is a right, but the point you are missing here is that while it gives you the right to bear arms. It also gives the criminals the rights to bear arms as well. Making the reason you want the right, to defend yourself from the very right that you rely on to defend yourself.
commanderkai commanderkai:
Psychos can get their hands on anything. Knives, cars, bats, saws, axes, etc etc etc. Crime doesn't stop when you ban something. Taking guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens is wrong.
You know what commanderkai? Somehow I just don't see a criminal robbing a bank with a knife, or a base-ball bat. A fire-arm is a very dangerous weapon that can kill multiple people with range. There is a reason why its the only choice criminals use.
Also when a cop is chasing down some psycho-path due to his criminal activities. Think of all the less cop casualties there will be when cops don't need to worry about some guy pulling out his fire-arm. Which with this 'right'. I would garantee that the guy would be carrying one.
Guns are made for one purpose, and that is for killing. I refuse to believe that giving everybody a gun should be a right, that's no different than giving everybody a right to there own cruise missles, or nuke. It's basicly a right to kill somebody.
fifeboy @ Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:21 pm
Bacardi4206 Bacardi4206:
You know what commanderkai? Somehow I just don't see a criminal robbing a bank with a knife, or a base-ball bat. A fire-arm is a very dangerous weapon that can kill multiple people with range. There is a reason why its the only choice criminals use.
I remember reading in The Western Sportsman, a hunting and fishing mag. for western Canada where some dude argued that you could kill someone with a frozen gopher, therefore we should not restrict the ownership of handguns as it was obvious to him that frozen gophers were just as dangerous as handguns.