None here will be final arbiters on that one, marklart. jack maloney, however, has come closest to my feelings about the issues of responsibility and liberty---and justice.
Somehow or another, perhaps from the way Canada developed from a colony, society here accepted---chose---laws that placed limitations on use and ownership i.e. pistols, machine guns etc which have been in effect for more than 75 years.
Sportsmen saw the regulations as reasonable but drew the line on registration of our long-guns. As reported earlier, I expect to see reversal of that policy.Canadians, however, don't think of taking up arms against their governments.
It's unimaginable for me that Americans would ever find a valid reason to do otherwise. They make their own laws which one way or another impose limitations and promote pursuit of happiness providing it doesn't trammel the rights of others.
My opinion is no more valid than yours, of course, and it is influenced by my reporting in the 60s of good folks in Missouri's James and Younger country selling bazookas and Garands from their garages to take on Washington.
It was as abhorrent to me as our killing seals is to Americans.
Last edited by King Brown; 02/23/07 12:27 PM.
