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Barry Glasgow (glasgow@bnr.ca) writes:
> |> The *last* thing I
> |> would want to do is move to a violent society like the US where every
> |> yahoo has easy access to a gun.
> 
> The last thing I would want to do is live in a society where yahoos
> spend all their time telling law-abiding citizens that they shouldn't
> have guns.   Guess both the U.S. and Canada are out of the question.

In that case, why don't you leave the country. Go to the USA where they
are so hung up on individual rights that the rights of society as a whole
take a back seat. (Gun control is perhaps the most obvious example of
this, but there are many others.) Drugs are illegal because they're
dangerous - but they're basically only dangerous to the person using them
(unless you drive a car or use a gun or so something similar while
stoned). Guns are dangerous to innocent bystanders who have no choice in
whether to be around them or not, and so should be controlled even more
tightly than drugs.

> |> I prefer to live in a society where
> |> the default assumption is that you don't have to worry about the fellow on
> |> the sidewalk beside you being armed.
> 
> I hope you mean criminals and not the police and any other citizen
> legally entitled to be armed.
> Otherwise, you'd be a paranoid fool, wouldn't you ?

Obviously the police will have guns. I don't worry about them.

We already have many situations where domestic violence becomes fatal
because a gun is easily available, and cases where guns are stolen and used 
to commit other crimes. Limiting access to guns means that we limit our
exposure to these types of incidents.

The part I find absolutely incredible is that anyone can buy ammunition
without a permit. Requiring somebody to show proof of registration for
legal ownership of the gun before being allowed to buy ammo would go a
long way to curbing violence. If a gun is stolen, a registration
certificate would have to be stolen or forged as well before it could be
used, thus making the task that much tougher.

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