Guns are the problem

MikePal usually picks these things up, but maybe he missed it. CBC radio carried a broadcast with the OFAH reacting to a bill-board advertisement by Crime Stoppers in London Ontario, which stated: "GUNS ARE THE PROBLEM." The OFAH's concern was the advertisement used too broad a brush, which might create problems for law-abiding firearm owners.
To exaggerate the point: someone see an individual out crossing a field to go hunting, calls it into Crime Stoppers for the reward, and the next thing that happens is the individual is confronted with a SWAT team. NOTE: I did say this is an exaggerated incident.

You don't stop hunting because because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut

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Originally Posted by Gun Nut

MikePal usually picks these things up, but maybe he missed it. CBC radio carried a broadcast with the OFAH reacting to a bill-board advertisement by Crime Stoppers in London Ontario, which stated: "GUNS ARE THE PROBLEM." The OFAH's concern was the advertisement used too broad a brush, which might create problems for law-abiding firearm owners.
To exaggerate the point: someone see an individual out crossing a field to go hunting, calls it into Crime Stoppers for the reward, and the next thing that happens is the individual is confronted with a SWAT team. NOTE: I did say this is an exaggerated incident.

You don't stop hunting because because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut

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Not that exaggerated for Jonathan Login.

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Originally Posted by Gun Nut

MikePal usually picks these things up, but maybe he missed it. CBC radio carried a broadcast with the OFAH reacting to a bill-board advertisement by Crime Stoppers in London Ontario, which stated: "GUNS ARE THE PROBLEM." The OFAH's concern was the advertisement used too broad a brush, which might create problems for law-abiding firearm owners.
To exaggerate the point: someone see an individual out crossing a field to go hunting, calls it into Crime Stoppers for the reward, and the next thing that happens is the individual is confronted with a SWAT team. NOTE: I did say this is an exaggerated incident.

You don't stop hunting because because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut

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well i had that happen to me last summer not a swat team but had two cruisers coming from opposite directions thru a farmers field lol some one mistook my mono pod as a rifle i think
and that was with a camera

It is really scary when the police point a shotgun in your face. I know. And I wasn't armed at the time.

It's a stretch to suppose that the billboards in question might lead to cops being called on a legit gun owner, in spite of the confused messaging.

In the case of Jonathan Login, the call came not because of a campaign to report illegal guns but because he was spotted with a gun in the area of a school. That's not to defend the OPP's reprehensible handling of the situation. But the call, and the police reaction to the call, was motivated by a panic over school shootings. That's going to happen regardless of any billboard.

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x2 ..LOL..

A bit of follow up:

http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.c...lem-billboards

You don't stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut

your link didn't work for me...

this one does.. http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.c...them-offensive

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Originally Posted by MikePal

your link didn't work for me...

this one does.. http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.c...them-offensive

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Thanks MikePal, I tried it after posting it, found it didn't work went back to find correct connection was just about to re-post correct version. Looks like I stop too soon when I attempted to copy link. Thanks again.

You don't stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting
-Gun Nut