🚀 go-pugleaf

mel@zadall.com (Melanie Arabsky) writes:

> In article <3aeaj9$edb@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>,
> William John M. Christie <chrstie@cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
> >Why am I not allowed to own my property on my own land?  Again you have 
> >assumed that the risks with a firearm and explosive are the same.  I 
> >believe I have illustrated they are not.
> 
> I wanted to address not this whole snippet but just the first part
> 'Why am I not allowed to own my property on my own land?".  Gun owners
> are not singled out this regard - there are all kinds of rules as to
> whether you can have a live chicken on your own land, for instance.  



  Well, I'd argue that you could keep a chicken *inside* your house if 
you really wanted to (I'm not sure whether the livestock regulations 
apply inside the home) with no more dangerous effect than keeping a 
firearm...but them we're talking about zoning bylaws here, not having 
your personal property seized or prohibited.  They also make you cut your 
grass and tell you what your house has to look like (you won't get away 
with painting it flourescent orange, for example..:).

  Explosives are in a class of their own, and for obvious reasons.  You 
aren't allowed to keep many things designated 'hazardous materials' in a 
residential area...and not just because they think you 'might' misuse 
them.