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gsyh in canpolitik

A Canadian Liberal's Case for Guns - a pseudo e-torial

Sep 14, 2006 13:32

Hello, I'm a voting Liberal, I believe in peace, healthcare, maintaining a good environment, education and social programs as a long term solution to crime problems, rainbows, and also, butterflies.

( I'm also very firmly pro-firearms )

gun registry, gun control

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Thanks gsyh September 14 2006, 21:23:05 UTC

I'll look him up anyways.

mijopo September 14 2006, 19:36:17 UTC

I don't know of any such organization, but do you know the paper:

“The Liberal Basis of the Right to Bear Arms” Todd C. Hughes and Lester H. Hunt [R]

It's quite a good defense of, well, what the title indicates. It's reprinted in "Ethics in Practice", 3rd edition, Blackwell.

w00t gsyh September 14 2006, 21:23:42 UTC

Now that classes is in session again, I'll see if I can find time between them to slip into the library and look it up.

Thank you.

Re: w00t ghostwes September 15 2006, 07:07:03 UTC

Look up Ward Churchill's "Pacifism as Pathology" for some interesting tangential arguments.

orangelamp September 15 2006, 00:32:59 UTC

I'm a new democrat, and to a certain level, I'm pro-gun.

Here's where I'm conflicted, and have no idea how the legislation should be.

Cities, and guns, make a very bad mix. There is no, rational or legitimate use for a gun, within city limits. (I don't like police, but let's ignore that, because you'll miss my main point)

The thing is, canada, is a MASSIVE country. you can't imagine how big it is. There are places that are so remote, that if you don't have a gun, you could run the very real risk of starving to death, or getting attacked by something nasty.

So, this, creates a pretty big problem. As Firearms are controlled by the federal government, we have the same laws in downtown toronto, as we do on baffin island.

So, I guess I'm pro-gun in a sense. Maybe that would be better described as saying I'm "pro hunter", because I think that it the gun laws should be tighter in urban areas, but looser in rural areas (where hunting takes place).

allhatnocattle September 15 2006, 03:54:43 UTC

The kid had three guns. One was a pistol, a semi-auto rifle and a third I believe was a shotgun. Anyway it's just details ( ... )

sputnik_ September 15 2006, 04:45:03 UTC

if i voted i would vote ndp and im pro-firearm too.

ghostwes September 15 2006, 07:15:53 UTC

I'm very far from being a Liberal but I am against gun control. Not the same as being "pro-firearm", exactly, but I think we're probably on the same page.

I am also solidly in the anti-massacre camp. Having guns and using them to kill random strangers are two different animals.

There have been axe murders in the past, too... should we register axes as well?