Milo;323653 wroteWho says it's a bad idea? You? On what basis? Legally owned and stored firearms are NOT the threat. Go after the criminals, Mark . . . not the law abiding citizen enjoying his hobby. The only difference between guns and any other collectible item is their POTENTIAL lethality if handled improperly. A properly handled firearm is no more dangerous than a power drill.
Also, your "protection" stats are moot as, by legal definition, firearms and their ammunition MUST be stored separately. No one I know who owns firearms will EVER say they have them for personal protection, because they all recognize that Canadian law makes that an impossibility.
Your "fatalities" argument is specious too, or you would be screaming to ban alcohol, personal ownership of automobiles, and a host of other implements that are responsible for more annual deaths in this country than firearms. And, if you were to eliminate the illegal firearms from that stat, how many would be left? Just curious?
Again, target the criminals, please, not law abiding citizens. Freedom is a wonderful thing, why do you hate it so?
None of this makes sense if you read what I've typed - repeatedly.
I get it, criminals bad. But guns or the "hobby" of owning guns? Ridiculous. What is a hobby about the firearms that cannot be dealt with in the ways I have repeatedly, exhaustively, explained? And no more dangerous than a power drill? Now you're just ignoring straight up common sense because you like guns.
You don't think "legally stored" guns have a threat? You're wrong, and lying to yourself. How many times do you hear about someone cleaning a gun and it goes off? Human error? Sure! Guns don't load themselves, but if some fucking moron has a stamp collection it doesn't kill his neighbor when he creases one.
I don't know how else to explain this to everyone. Knives, bats, crowbars, fucking hammers and drills are TOOLS by nature. Nobody builds a fucking house with a pistol. Guns are weapons. Not tools, not a hobby, not art. They are weapons. Someone mentioned swords before - ya, and swords in Canada are dulled and unsharpenable - now just showpieces. You want to keep guns? Fine, neuter them so they can't fire. That's the only way you should have them in your house.
Final Fact: More people are killed by heart and stroke illness than cancer, so we should shush up all these cancer research advocates. Stupid fucking logic no?
