AR 15 Reclassification

[Big Gunner]

Obviously you are ill informed. I would be ok banning all like you from ever owning a modern firearm as your "needs" are not like the freedom of choice "needs" of others. Simply water and bread for you every 3 days will suffice eh? Becaused none need" anything else eh?

Wow I feel like Dixie chick's lol well I'm "not ready to make nice" lol

Like I said just my opinion, I just don't see the need for that kind of fire power.
I shoot to hunt primarily. And I target shoot to get better at my shoot to kill. The hunting we do in ontario, if you can't knock down what ever you are shooting at in 2, ok 3 shots that you need a semi auto machine gun (AR-15) then maybe more time at the range is needed!!! Just saying

But hey to each his own.

[Big Gunner]

Gun murder is likely less than 10,000, mostly black on black, gang, male, under 30 years old in 250k or up population areas and is a very low percentage of the popuulation. We know who, where and what but we do nothing because it isn't politically correct.

We'd rather punish the rights of gun owners.

If you EVER take away one RIGHT none are safe.

All people in the US have the rights you mention, even the gun owners. There is no moral equivalency in removing gun rights from lawful owners v terrorist or mentally ill killing within the population. It's not even the proper subject or topic.

We have a right to bear arms. There are PLENTY of hoops to jump thru NOW.

Let me ask you... How many must die while people like you address the wrong symptom? Why not put the salve where the sore is? Why? Because we have a spineless chicken chit leader that won't even say radical islamist and has his cronies redacts the 911 call transcript of the actual terrorist spewing his ideology, claiming his kinship, and taking sole responsibility.

Hard to fix a terrorist problem you won't even speak out loud or commit to with the resolve to eradicate it from the face of the earth.

OK we are in Canada right. I think your talking about the wrong country's problems.

The US has some serious issues it needs to deal with.

[trimmer21]

Sucides can be reduced by storage laws? This year alone to date. 23 children have shot people. This guy? Just one sick puppy imo...with a history of domestic violence did he not? Yet he still acquired....

No matter how it's sliced or diced, statistically (GD per capita) the U.S. is off the charts, dirty bath water, useless for comparative purposes to other civilized nations because it's so far off, an "outrider".

How many mass shootings since columbine? The theatre? sandy Hook.
As I said R, the means and willpower to move mountains, literally when foreigners killed 3,000 on 9/11. But for the 25,000 or 30,000 that die each year.....

no will at all.

"Right to bear arms"
"right to life and liberty". For thousands, each year that right is buried and then forgotten. See the same old same since Columbine. No doubt, nothing will change after this one either....

i might think in a civilized society, the right to life, scuz the pun. Trumps the right to bear arms.

and that "right" was given when people used muskets, could get 2 shots a minute....
dont see how limiting magazines, clamping down on storage laws, and more infringes on the right to bear arms.

the States is a great country. But messed up and we'll in its way to imploding.

Root cause,JBen and it's NOT guns. It's nuts that shouldn't have access and who were known to be problem children beforehand that nobody dropped a dime on when they should have. It's the common denominator with every one of the mass shootings. Somebody knew something and chose to do nothing,except in this case where the gun shop owner quickly advised the FBI about the irregularities of the purchase by the customer. Even then,he was still checked and cleared. Citizens can't be arrested and charged for what you think they might do in the US,unlike here in Canada where a PAL can be immediately suspended and all an individuals firearms seized without warrant for the social media comments alone.
Oh,BTW,the rights given by The Second Amendment had nothing to do with which weapons could be used because it made NO distinction on weapons restrictions. It had everything to do with the right of the people to bear arms to prevent a take over by a totalitarian or rogue government. The difference between the two principles is clear and distinct,but,always seems to get confused.

[MikePal]

Oh,BTW,the rights given by The Second Amendment had nothing to do with which weapons could be used because it made NO distinction on weapons restrictions. It had everything to do with the right of the people to bear arms to prevent a take over by a totalitarian or rogue government. The difference between the two principles is clear and distinct,but,always seems to get confused.

Yup....it's rarely read in it's entirety and the true meaning often misunderstood..

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

The Second Amendment, after all, doesn’t recognize our right to hunt deer or protect ourselves from criminals. Owning guns certainly makes doing those things easier, but it’s not why the Founders bothered to codify gun rights. They were getting at something else—the right of revolution.

Simply put, the purpose of the Second Amendment is to give the people the means to overthrow the government in the event it becomes tyrannical.

[JBen]

You think I don't know that Trimmer?

Point being GC works. While there's more to it, our two countries are very similar, yet the GD per capita..not even in the stratosphere ...and that's with our revolving door soft on crime, justice system thats A) infinitely softer on criminals than the US is and B) gets blamed for the problems here (mostly rightly)....just saying. And with respect to sick people who snap.

/looks around Canada for events like Columbine or SandyHook
/looks harder
/looks harder
yeah we've had a couple but nowhere near, the same number or the same scope, so what gives?

Is the only explantation that the US for some magical inexplicable reason breeds infinitely more people with serious mental health problems?


And the simple fact of the matter is gun owners apparently don't care much about people being shot and or killed in droves much, because nothing gets done, and no matter what's mentioned, it's worse than pulling teeth. (But for 9/11 Oorah lots of willpower and stepping up to the plate there). See how I point the rate of fire for Muskets, versus Semis with 30 round mags, and it's deflected. Or storage laws and children getting a hold of loaded guns and shooting their parents, other children, themselves...that to is deflected. Each time, all the time. Since Columbine, each event since and there have been lots, more than just the theatre, Sandy hook and now this one, and likely going forward. Same old, same old, round and round and round and round it will go.......

There comes a time when responsible people need to step to the plate and simply see things for what they are and get some things done. Period, no more "excuses"



reality check re the 2nd. Not sure what world people live on but...
if the U.S. ever becomes tyrannical, it won't matter how well armed citizens are.They won't be as well armed as the Iraqi army, and how long did they last? It about as ludicrous as us Canadians thinking we'd last a week if the US ever decides to invade here, especially if they don't hold back much. They could have levelled Iraq in a day or two but still held back concerned about...a "tyrannical US govt say a little more gung ho than Putin who doesn't care about public backlash"...lol

.......Other point on that, should be obvious, muskets rate of fire and mass shootings and mag capacity with Semi's , where guys like this unload

[skypilot]

Wow I feel like Dixie chick's lol well I'm "not ready to make nice" lol

Like I said just my opinion, I just don't see the need for that kind of fire power.
I shoot to hunt primarily. And I target shoot to get better at my shoot to kill. The hunting we do in ontario, if you can't knock down what ever you are shooting at in 2, ok 3 shots that you need a semi auto machine gun (AR-15) then maybe more time at the range is needed!!! Just saying

But hey to each his own.

An AR 15 isn't, by even the most ridiculous stretch, a machine gun.

Your "needs" may not be the same as other's needs and needs are of no bearing here. Freedom isn't about minimum needs. It's about the free ability to drive a VW beetle or a Lamborghini Gallardo. To drink no alcohol or to drink beer or wine to own an island or a swamp,..........PLUS it is a RIGHT granted by the US Constitution and if one RIGHT that is granted under the Constitution falls, no other rights are safe from an over reaching government.

On Semi Auto ARs...

I have had on several occassion had a "pack" or several separate individual coyotes come in to a call and an AR is well suited as a hunting rifle for that situation, gopher hunting and or target shooting.

My AR 15 when left alone has hurt no one.

It is borderline psychotic to blame an object for or add some type of personification or anthromorphism to an inanimate object.

Pulse was an islamist terrorist attack. The forensics say so, the LE say so, the victims say so, heck the shooter said so.

No one needs a pressure cooker, an airplane, nails, blackpowder, boxcutters, cars, motorcycles or any of the things they have used to further their 7th century harmful beliefs.

[skypilot]

You think I don't know that Trimmer?

Point being GC works. While there's more to it, our two countries are very similar, yet the GD per capita..not even in the stratosphere ...and that's with our revolving door soft on crime, justice system thats A) infinitely softer on criminals than the US is and B) gets blamed for the problems here (mostly rightly)....just saying. And with respect to sick people who snap.

/looks around Canada for events like Columbine or SandyHook
/looks harder
/looks harder
yeah we've had a couple but nowhere near, the same number or the same scope, so what gives?

Is the only explantation that the US for some magical inexplicable reason breeds infinitely more people with serious mental health problems?


And the simple fact of the matter is gun owners apparently don't care much about people being shot and or killed in droves much, because nothing gets done, and no matter what's mentioned, it's worse than pulling teeth. (But for 9/11 Oorah lots of willpower and stepping up to the plate there). See how I point the rate of fire for Muskets, versus Semis with 30 round mags, and it's deflected. Or storage laws and children getting a hold of loaded guns and shooting their parents, other children, themselves...that to is deflected. Each time, all the time. Since Columbine, each event since and there have been lots, more than just the theatre, Sandy hook and now this one, and likely going forward. Same old, same old, round and round and round and round it will go.......

There comes a time when responsible people need to step to the plate and simply see things for what they are and get some things done. Period, no more "excuses"



reality check re the 2nd. Not sure what world people live on but...
if the U.S. ever becomes tyrannical, it won't matter how well armed citizens are.They won't be as well armed as the Iraqi army, and how long did they last? It about as ludicrous as us Canadians thinking we'd last a week if the US ever decides to invade here, especially if they don't hold back much. They could have levelled Iraq in a day or two but still held back concerned about...a "tyrannical US govt say a little more gung ho than Putin who doesn't care about public backlash"...lol

.......Other point on that, should be obvious, muskets rate of fire and mass shootings and mag capacity with Semi's , where guys like this unload

Kids shouldn't get car keys and kill Constables, like officer Styles. Or get into toxic laundry pods, or poisons under the sink, or into gorilla cages, etc., etc. either. However all of those are a failure of diligence by the parent or an extraordinary attempt by the child.
Sadly that is also a price of individual RIGHTS and freedoms.

Suicide deaths are a non issue apparently on one hand as Canada is trying to help GET ER DONE now.

People whine on one hand about suicide numbers yet try to create, thru Canadian law, an express lane to increase the kill rate.

Constitution = Evergreen. My Musket = Governments's musket, My M4 M16= their M4 M 16.....Be hard to overthrow a governement of today with a musket unless they want to go back to flint and steel too.

I took an oath as LE to protect the US and my resdent State Constitutions from all threats foreign and domestic. So did millions of other LE. That includes standing agains Feinstein(who hypocritically carries CCW)and her elitist, socialist anti gun agenda.

However I am all for assisting the terrorist to reach their martydom, the mentally ill to find their institution and the criminals to find their jail in order to rid society of gun murders.

[JBen]

exactly why the US will continue to go to pot R, it's all or nothing, no middle ground. And has been forever and will continue to be forever. As an aside look at the current political division in the US. So polarized, and its getting worse. Your ( loose, broad term) going to blow up, destroy that which your swore to protect and love.

Re "overthrow" the govt..Good luck R, if that day ever comes. You'd don't stand a hope, likely less chance than the Iraqi army. Again, your completely missing the "point". Reducing magazine capacity, does not confiscate your guns, or infringe on your 2nd. Yet it's like pulling teeth.
An obvious easy possible thing the US could do (see the vid Mike linked)..How many magazines did he pull out, each filled with 30 rounds.......



[quote][COLOR=#333333]Kids shouldn't get car keys and kill Constables, like officer Styles. Or get into toxic laundry pods, or poisons under the sink, or into gorilla cages, etc., etc. either. However all of those are a failure of diligence by the parent or an extraordinary attempt by the child.[/quote}

all examples, where currently there are more safeguards and "controls" than leaving a loaded firearm around. People should also be intelligent enough to know that drinking and driving is a really bad idea. And like that, people had to be dragged kicking and screaming into accepting some laws, changes. Even speed limits as cars evolved....

See also texting and driving.

PS R, statistically your more likely to get shot in the US than end up in a car wreck. But Im assuming your ok with drinking driving, or texting driving laws?

[MikePal]

However I am all for assisting the terrorist to reach their martydom, the mentally ill to find their institution and the criminals to find their jail in order to rid society of gun murders.

I like that...well phrased !!

[JBen]

Lol, me to.

Ps R, heading out onto the water, you around for coffee this am?