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A very sad day in Canada; Bill to abolish gun registry
Topic Started: Feb 16 2012, 07:25 AM (1,641 Views)
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So you feel you need to protect your property by being able to shoot someone? That fits my definition of paranoia, anyway.
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Mountainrivers
Feb 16 2012, 11:30 PM
those guys think that they can take on our military with a few handguns and rifles. I wish they'd try it. It would weed out the some of the paranoia.
I have an ongoing vision of some dude standing in front of an American Abrams or Canadian Leopard Main Battle Tank with his 3030 rifle...

Yup, he'd stop that tank right in his tracks!
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Feb 17 2012, 12:07 AM
So you feel you need to protect your property by being able to shoot someone? That fits my definition of paranoia, anyway.
So car insurance, health insurance, life insurance, pensions, social security, police forces, military, and the like are all driven by fear and paranoia?
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to a point, yes
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So you're saying your socialized healthcare is driven by emotional fear and paranoia rather than any rational calculation of risk?
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Feb 17 2012, 12:09 AM
Mountainrivers
Feb 16 2012, 11:30 PM
those guys think that they can take on our military with a few handguns and rifles. I wish they'd try it. It would weed out the some of the paranoia.
I have an ongoing vision of some dude standing in front of an American Abrams or Canadian Leopard Main Battle Tank with his 3030 rifle...

Yup, he'd stop that tank right in his tracks!
Too many movies!
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Feb 17 2012, 01:44 AM
to a point, yes
Hey, I found an example of your point!

Brock and the Glock: Armed men guarded Media Matters boss as he took $400,000 gun control donation
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The recent revelation that the head of Media Matters walked the streets of Washington with a Glock-toting personal assistant acting as a bodyguard may make it a little awkward for the group the next time it seeks a donation from a gun control advocacy group.

Media Matters reportedly took more than $400,000 from the Joyce Foundation specifically earmarked to promote a $600,000 initiative on "gun and public safety issues." At the same time, Media Matters' gun-guarded boss David Brock reportedly obsessed over his own security.

"It doesn't look good," said Fraser Seitel, president of Emerald Partners Communications and a public relations expert who authored the book "Rethinking Reputation."

"But it is a gray area in terms of public relations. Since (Media Matters) is so anti-NRA, to have their members packing heat leaves them open to criticism," he said.

Brock reportedly told confidantes that he feared for his safety and needed hired guns to keep him safe....
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And that has what to do with gun ownership out of fear?
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Paraniod BS Neil? You can call BS all you want about how I feel on the topic of personal defense, and you can call BS about what I share if you like but if you’d take me up on my offer of spending a work day making my rounds I’m betting not only would you believe me about the situations I’ve been in but you would get a real clear picture into what the illegal invasion was done to the construction industry here in Florida. My name is Don, I’m very real and the invitation still stands if you want to see things you can’t.

Btw, this is what I call the ‘liberal flaw’: “I'm 70 years old and never even came close to needing a gun to protect myself”

Since you, in your 70 years have never been in a situation you felt the need to defend your life, somehow, and I don’t know how, you register it as it hasn’t or doesn’t happen to other people? Well I can tell you from firsthand experience, Neil, if it does happen your thought process will probably change for life. I have a feeling you’re not an NRA member, but if you get a chance follow their monthly ‘Armed Citizen’ submissions and they have to be verified… Not just “BS”

There are a lot of hours in a day and yes, I have interests that exceed guns and regular shooting; family & friends & our pets, sex is a big one, business, then probably training new shooters the basics and improving my personal defense training. I do appreciate you providing your age because that does help me in understanding the older minds that got us to this point in time and don’t mean anything derogatory by that. You are the only person that ever took a stab to a question I’ve asked on a few forums on how I’ve witnessed the exodus of black men from my time (25+ years) in high volume construction opening up the door to the illegal invasion.

I come across as a ‘gun-nut’ because if you don’t talk over the emotional liberals on the topic and the ‘the internet is my life’ fast posting trolls you get walked on and I’m here to understand honest mindsets.
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