CANADIAN freedom and right to own a Firearm

[TAR 21]

Greetings fellow firearms owners and enthusiasts .. I am pleased to join GOC and be able to share my passion with fellow owners

Just a quick 'heads-up' to everyone who enjoys the FREEDOM to own and shoot their prized possessions. Lets make sure we keep that FREEDOM and not let the ANTI GUN LOBBY Bureaucrats deprive us of that enjoyment.

Unfortunately there are plenty of them out there that are waiting to seize on the opportunity to ban EVERY FIREARM they can, many are trying right this moment to 'jump on the band wagon' after the very sad events that have recently taken place in the US and the relentless MEDIA frenzy to ban firearms!

I, like many of you, have kids and they are the most precious part of our lives, none-the-less I know, like the rest of you, that guns will always be available to the crooks and lunatics on this planet..whether firearms are banned or not...I know this for a fact....

I used to live in the UK and had my firearms confiscated as did other legal gun owners after another lunatic, in the late 80's, went into a school and shot many kids...The BRITISH GOVERNMENT seized this 'ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY' to take away ALL our guns..
"THIS BAN WILL CUT GUN CRIME IN THE UK" was their rhetoric....TOTAL B.S.!!!

GUN CRIME HAS GONE THROUGH THE ROOF SINCE THE BAN!!!! As the only people that have guns now are the crooks!

SO, CANADIANS WE NEED TO STICK TOGETHER AND NOT GIVE AN INCH TO THESE PHILISTINES!

Be safe out there


***** GUNS ARE NOT DANGEROUS ...BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE! *****

[Strewth]

Welcome...great first post!

[telecaster]

Welcome!

[Space Shuttle Door Gunner]

Welcome, I share your sentiments entirely

[Drache]

Hate to say it but Canadians don't have a right to own firearms at all. We have the privilege that the Government allows us to own firearms. Been this way long before I was born sadly....

[YukonLeftie]

Which, perhaps above all else, needs correcting. But; given there isnt yet a single party within Canada willing to stand up and do that...

[awndray]

Hate to say it but Canadians don't have a right to own firearms at all.

Don't we?

http://www.rkba.ca/

http://www.bcrevolution.ca/common_law_right.htm

[Drache]

Don't we?

http://www.rkba.ca/

http://www.bcrevolution.ca/common_law_right.htm

I've read those arguments before and when I first joined CGN I was one of the ones always claiming we had that right. But we don't. We have the right to self defense which is clearly stated. It also state we have the right to over throw a tyrannical ruler. But it doesn't say anything about the right to bear arms.

[awndray]

So if nothing about it is mentioned, does it mean we explicitly don't have the right, or simply that we don't have a protected right?

[3MTA3]

welcome

http://www.law.ualberta.ca/centres/ccs/news/?id=358

[Edenchef]

This is my first post to this forum, so please forgive me if I sound like a newby. I’m not new to this game.
I have read a lot about how the “right to bear arms” is the final protection against government tyranny. An unalterable human right, something beyond mere law; something that belongs to “justice”, this I believe with all my heart (ex. RCAF Officer). All of what I have read, on this, many other gun forums, firearm websites, and in the truly free press; talk as if this is an event that might occur in the future and we need to be ready to stop it, when it happens. Question????? What if this tyranny by our government has already occurred? Not a fear for the future, but a thing of the present. These new gun laws and the courts support of them are just recognition of the fear of the power of this “human right to bear arms” in fighting the already existing tyranny. Now the tyrants and their servants are slowly, very slowly taking away our arms, hoping that by the time we wake up to this violation of our basic human rights; we are disarmed and helpless? Unable to mount an effective resistance to their “will of the state”.
Let’s look at this situation very, very carefully….. government makes these gun laws, courts make rulings on those laws, police enforce(with threat of application or actual application of deadly force, including firearms) those rulings of the courts; against it’s own citizens, effectively disarming them and rendering them ineffective in resisting.
Let’s look at the major players in this game:
Government – Our elected representatives – whose first priority once getting elected to a position of power, becomes staying in power, not representing the citizens(us), who put them there.
Judges – appointed by and paid by (guess who?) government, but misrepresented as being the independent “impartial arbiters of law”. Do they think we are that stupid? How can they possibly be “impartial”? They know who put them there, who pays their salaries, and who builds their grand palaces (law courts).
Police—again, hired by, armed by, paid by; government. For the sole purpose of application of force against it’s own citizens.
The minor, supporting players:
Bureaucrats, civil servants—the nameless, faceless, unelected, unaccountable; the true enemies of freedom (as accused by Marcus Tulius Cicero, in the time of Julius Caesar). Guess who makes up the lists of restricted and prohibited guns?
The news media—“Freedom of the press” What a crock of fertilizer. Who do you think the greatest buyer of advertising is……so think they are unbiased?
I have probably violated the forum rules many times already, but my point for everyone is….THINK, please. This might not be a problem for the future, but a cold hard fact of our present. Thank you, Cheers!

[walperstyle]

If that long gun registry ever comes back, I forsee a lot of people officially not owning any guns. I really hope it doesn't. Terrible waste of money and didn't accomplish anything.

I don't mind the police knowing what I have, but some random office somewhere (that will possibly be outsourced)... no thanks. I don't like that information floating around for bad people to find out.

[Steveo9mm]

If that long gun registry ever comes back, I forsee a lot of people officially not owning any guns.

"Sorry officer, what guns? I lost them in a game of truth. Check 2 towns down."

[Senor Frio Maldito]

If that long gun registry ever comes back, I forsee a lot of people officially not owning any guns. I really hope it doesn't. Terrible waste of money and didn't accomplish anything.

I don't mind the police knowing what I have, but some random office somewhere (that will possibly be outsourced)... no thanks. I don't like that information floating around for bad people to find out.

Agreed. Not a fan of the CPC (Cheryl Gallant's) proposal to "privatize the functions of the firearms registry".
Privatization means "for profit", which will come out of our pockets, and it means efficiency, so instead of a phone call from the gov't, we might end up with Blackwater kicking in our door.

I wish the Libertarian Party of Canada wasn't so disorganized and amateurish. I joined anyway - $10.

[Waterloomike]

Hate to say it but Canadians don't have a right to own firearms at all. We have the privilege that the Government allows us to own firearms. Been this way long before I was born sadly....

Government is in the business of denying rights, not enforcing Rights.

The Rights exist, even though their paper work may claim otherwise.

Governments are force and force alone. government is a gun to your head.

The thing they fear most is guns in the wrong hands. Your hands are the wrong hands.

That is the fundamental reason, they only issue a temporary permit and have made it illegal to own guns under any other condition.

They do not fear guns in the hands of permit holders. We are few and we obey the law, regardless how onerous it is. We are the low hanging fruit that can easily be stripped of access for any reason they care to concoct.