
02-05-2012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by deow
I think there's quite a bit of culture clash going on here. Canadians tend to feel differently about carrying a gun. For example, a gun wouldn't make me feel safer. Often enough a gun can escalate a bad situation into a worse one. Often enough, too, you end up arming your attacker.
Also if I shot an innocent person by mistake, I don't know if I could ever forgive myself.
But it's not worth arguing about, because I think it's unlikely that anyone will be swayed from their core beliefs.
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SOME Canadians feel differently about carrying a gun.
I have guns. I have had permits to carry a concealed firearm in the past; I doubt if I will ever be able to get one again.
I know what guns can do, I also know I would forever question myself if I ever killed someone with one. Don't ever push me towards that point if my family is involved.
Not all Canadians believe in the nanny state. BTW, tell the fellow who lived on an acreage (a firearms instructor) whose criminal neighbors were trying to fire bomb his place why having firearms and USING them is a good idea. It took police 20 minutes to get there after he phone in a complaint.
Some on here would prefer he was burned out rather then use a firearm... not me. He did the right thing.
All was captured on tape.
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