Canadian Parliament Vote on Gun Registry

[murrays 0]

Canadian Members of Parliament vote tonight on a private member's bill that will abolish the Canadian Long Gun Registry if passed.

I'm not a gun owner but I sure hope that this bill passes. The gun registry has been a very expensive waste of taxpayers' money that hasn't saved one life or kept guns out of the hands of criminals.

I have my fingers crossed.

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Murray

"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

[mnealtx 0]

Good luck!

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[Andrewwhyte 1]

Second reading was actually tonight. The motion passed with all members of the Conservatives being supported by several rural members of the Liberals and New Democrat (socialist) Party. All Block Quebecois members voted against the repeal.
It is still a long way from law as it now goes to committee where the leadership of the three opposition parties can saddle it with ammendments to make it unpalatable. If it makes it past 3rd reading it will go to the unelected, Liberal dominated Senate.
If it dies in Senate it will give the Senate reform crowd a big stick to beat them with. Hard to say which way it will go.

[rushmc 23]

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Canadian Members of Parliament vote tonight on a private member's bill that will abolish the Canadian Long Gun Registry if passed.

I'm not a gun owner but I sure hope that this bill passes. The gun registry has been a very expensive waste of taxpayers' money that hasn't saved one life or kept guns out of the hands of criminals.

I have my fingers crossed.

Let us know how it goes. Our media will only report it if the votes goes a specific way

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[SkyDekker 1,465]

This isn't supposed to happen, the next step after registration is confiscation...

[Ron 10]

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This isn't supposed to happen, the next step after registration is confiscation...

1. It has not happened yet.
2. If enough people dislike the law, they are supposed to be able to change it.
3. Just because confiscation did not happen here, does not mean that it has not happened before and that registration is one of the steps that precedes it.

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334

[Andy9o8 2]

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This isn't supposed to happen, the next step after registration is confiscation...

Wolverines!!

[DanG 1]

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Let us know how it goes. Our media will only report it if the votes goes a specific way

You don't have a non-partisan bone in your body, do you?

- Dan G

[rushmc 23]

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Let us know how it goes. Our media will only report it if the votes goes a specific way

You don't have a non-partisan bone in your body, do you?

translated you mean" to be non-paritsan you have to agree with me" which I dont have to.

But, to your mis-guided and idiotic point, the person I responded to posted to the process and how in the end it would be easy for nothing to come of it. I simply asked him to let me know if "anything" conclusive is decided.

Now, please return to your non-partisan world

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[Andy9o8 2]

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Let us know how it goes. Our media will only report it if the votes goes a specific way

You don't have a non-partisan bone in your body, do you?

He does; but it's actually cartilage. Go figure.

[JohnRich 4]

News:

Bill to scrap long gun registry passes next hurdle

Bill C-391, An amendment to the Criminal Code (repeal of the long gun registry), passed a major hurdle in the legislative process earlier today when it was approved at Second Reading in the House of Commons...

The vote was one step in a long process that has seen law-abiding firearms owners across Canada and almost 80,000 signatories on petitions earlier this year urging the government to end the long gun registry. Two major police associations, some police chiefs and many frontline police officers across Canada have also indicated that they support elimination of the long gun registry...

Source: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Ontario-Federation-Of-Anglers-And-Hunters-1071365.html

[wolfriverjoe 1,523]

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Let us know how it goes. Our media will only report it if the votes goes a specific way

You don't have a non-partisan bone in your body, do you?

Naah, he's just aware of how biased the media is against guns.

Even Fox News.

Although "If It Bleeds, It Leads" is their mantra, the amount of justified, defensive shootings reported in the major media is very small.

There have even been a couple school "rampage" shootings that were stopped by armed citizens (Pearl Mississipi was ended by the principal retrieving a pistol from his car and San Diego was stopped by a janitor doing the same, IIRC) that was never mentioned in the major media.

They love to show the anti-gunners crying about the "return to the old west" and "shooting each other over car accidents" when carry permit laws are being debated, but rarely mention the (usual) drop in crime rate or the complete lack of those dire predicitions coming true.

"There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy

"~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

[DanG 1]

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translated you mean" to be non-paritsan you have to agree with me" which I dont have to.

But, to your mis-guided and idiotic point, the person I responded to posted to the process and how in the end it would be easy for nothing to come of it. I simply asked him to let me know if "anything" conclusive is decided.

Now, please return to your non-partisan world

Um, no, I mean, "to be non-partisan you can't see everything in the universe as 'us' vs. 'them'."

You took a post about a Canadian gun law and tried to turn it into something about those bastards that run the liberal US media. Give it a fucking rest. When's the last time you saw anything in the US news about Canadian politics? They don't cover it because, frankly, most US citizens don't care.

- Dan G

[billvon 3,120]

>Let us know how it goes. Our media will only report it if the votes goes a specific way

You should really get that knee looked at. It's jerking again.

[Andrewwhyte 1]

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When's the last time you saw anything in the US news about Canadian politics? They don't cover it because, frankly, most US citizens don't care.

Yup. The Prime Minister recently admitted that he likes to watch US news for just that reason.

[rushmc 23]

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translated you mean" to be non-paritsan you have to agree with me" which I dont have to.

But, to your mis-guided and idiotic point, the person I responded to posted to the process and how in the end it would be easy for nothing to come of it. I simply asked him to let me know if "anything" conclusive is decided.

Now, please return to your non-partisan world

Um, no, I mean, "to be non-partisan you can't see everything in the universe as 'us' vs. 'them'."

You took a post about a Canadian gun law and tried to turn it into something about those bastards that run the liberal US media. Give it a fucking rest. When's the last time you saw anything in the US news about Canadian politics? They don't cover it because, frankly, most US citizens don't care.

You make a lot of false assumptions here so I suppose there is not use going on so, you win, feel better.....

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[mnealtx 0]

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This isn't supposed to happen, the next step after registration is confiscation...

Guess everyplace isn't as enlightened as New York, Chicago, and DC, hmm?

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[rickjump1 0]

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translated you mean" to be non-paritsan you have to agree with me" which I dont have to.

But, to your mis-guided and idiotic point, the person I responded to posted to the process and how in the end it would be easy for nothing to come of it. I simply asked him to let me know if "anything" conclusive is decided.

Now, please return to your non-partisan world

Um, no, I mean, "to be non-partisan you can't see everything in the universe as 'us' vs. 'them'."

You took a post about a Canadian gun law and tried to turn it into something about those bastards that run the liberal US media. Give it a fucking rest. When's the last time you saw anything in the US news about Canadian politics? They don't cover it because, frankly, most US citizens don't care.

I think you will find it is "us vs. them" when it comes to gun issues, and this includes both parties. You underestimate American interest in gun issues all over the world to include Australia, the UK, and now Canada. If Fox won't cover it, rest assured, the NRA will.

Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

[murrays 0]

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Second reading was actually tonight. The motion passed with all members of the Conservatives being supported by several rural members of the Liberals and New Democrat (socialist) Party. All Block Quebecois members voted against the repeal.
It is still a long way from law as it now goes to committee where the leadership of the three opposition parties can saddle it with ammendments to make it unpalatable. If it makes it past 3rd reading it will go to the unelected, Liberal dominated Senate.
If it dies in Senate it will give the Senate reform crowd a big stick to beat them with. Hard to say which way it will go.

Andrew, thanks for educating me on how our process works! I can see the Libs and NDPers voting for it to avoid backlash from their rural areas all the while thinking it won't matter because the Liberals in the Senate who don't have to face an election will kill it. I sure hope that doesn't turn out to be the case.

Murray