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| stealing someone else’s perfectly legal arsenal of weapons is probably the easiest way in Canada to become a mass murderer |
Even stored in gun cabinets, it is a breeze to get into homes while owners away and take the gun collection - often between one or two dozen legal guns, gun cabinets and all. And then break open the lock at your leisure, elsewhere.
Such thefts of major arsenals of legal guns happen weekly across Canada - a major major source of the country’s illegal gun supply.
Thanks to the gun lobby, don’t expect CBC is do a series on such thefts.
Or to ask whether hunting guns should be stored in local militia armouries and only taken out for a hunting trip and then returned.
Farmers could have a low powered single shot (no magazine) rifle for pests....
*I sincerely apologize for the mess this post originally was —- it was the combo of Google imposing a new version of Blogger upon us -grrrr !- and my physical keyboard suddenly dying, meaning I had do everything differently while using the virtual keyboard....
There was just a recent report of a break in somewhere in Nova Scotia where the legal gun owner's guns, stored legally were stolen. Couple weeks ago, it was reported by someone. Sorry about the vague details. A shot gun and a few hunting rifles I think. So what you're saying is true, easy enough to steal them and this just happened locally. Another case recently the CBC did report on was 11 rifles stolen from a home in Colchester, fishing rods, knives. Reported 2 days ago. Twice that I know of off hand since May guns were stolen in NS and I'm not looking for or tracking these cases. Probably quite a few more I just missed or weren't reported at all.
ReplyDeleteI worry about someone breaking in to my house when its empty and locked up because I have a cat that could be let out. It should weigh more on these gun owners the risk of an aresenal they bought falling into a thief or criminals hands. People get used to exposing others to risks in egregious ways. Drunk driving, half the human behavior during this pandemic, gun owners having no worry. Some provably do, I have no beef with gun owners just human disregard for safety in general. I don't think we should necessarily trade security for freedom so I understand to some extent gun owners even though I am not one at all myself. There should be some way to make gun ownership safer for the rest of us. Some kind of hidden locked compartment to hide guns from thieves.... Well maybe not THAT idea.
ReplyDeleteI think for the 2 dozen hours per year that most hunters have a rifle in hand in the woods hunting, they could store the weapon at a local military armoury or police station and only take it out for each hunting trip. Farmers need a gun handy for pests - but one , single shot weapon ( ie no magazine) should be enough.
ReplyDelete"It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found generally true: that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon – so long as there is no answer to it – gives claws to the weak" - Orwell (the atom bomb and you) Orwell coined the term "cold war" actually. So on the account of gun ownership if it's mass murder you're worried about these have and can be done with anything, fire, knives, cars or pulling roofs onto kids heads like Kleomedes. I don't own a gun but I can run a 4 minute mile, push a 500 pound wheelbarrow for 1km without stopping, explode sandbags in heavybags, but my greatest achievement is that I've spent over a decade and hundreds of hours swinging a 20 pound sledge hammer with 20 pound vest. I'm trying to be able to strict lever it one day like slim the hammer man. It takes RCMP 25-30 minutes to get to my community or any rural community. Should anyone just accept that their safety is entirely based on strangers good mental health and a police force that takes 30 minutes to show up? Read that book "the man from the train" where a lumberjack axe murderer (or multiple) but this book makes the case for one. Well they think this guy ran up the stairs so fast and burst into different rooms that he took out entire families before anyone got out of bed. I mean I can bend metal so rightly or wrongly I have confidence I might be able to defend myself against an assault I'm not sure anyone seeing me break rocks with a 20pound hammer would think gun ownership is unreasonable. First the guns and then no hammers over ten pounds!? You libs can take those guns but if you come for my democratic sledge hammers you'll have to take them(in best Charlton Heston accent): "from my cold dead hands" (I can hear my critics: "funny but not nearly funny enough" yes, I am sometimes the opposite of decent.) I can tell you that I'm worried about what kind of people are out there and what they could do, with or without a gun if they allow hate and unreason into their hearts. A box of girlscout cookies, a charming smile and a rock held hidden in anticipation is all you need to commit a mass killing around rural NS. The mental image of the RCMP and a dearmed civilian population seems like 2+2=4 if 4 were an RCMP boot stamping on the collective faces of Nova Scotians forever. I've never been a gun owner maybe never will. I am distrustful of people who amass power for (safety or to make the world better) its for power alone! I still have this feeling in my bones like Winston the libs are wrong about gun ownership.
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