Cdn-Firearms Digest Wednesday, July 9 2008 Volume 11 : Number 675 In this issue: Re: Re: What's wrong with C-24 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 15:32:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Re: Re: What's wrong with C-24 - --- On Wed, 7/9/08, Ian Jefferson wrote: > From: Ian Jefferson > Subject: Re: What's wrong with C-24 > To: cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca > Received: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 1:11 AM > > > > > Some kind of means test is hard to object to. > > > > No, it isn't - it's quite easy. Should you > have a "means test" to > > determine if you are fit to buy a book or a newspaper? > Should you have a > > "means test" to see if you are qualified > enough to vote? > > We do have these. Voting is by age. Drinking also. > Driving by > age and qualification. On the other hand none of these > entail criminal > records. Age barriers are not "means tests". We have age barriers on some "rights" because children don't have the mental wherewithal to form "informed consent". We can debate on what an appropriate age might be, but that doesn't change the fact that the right exists. When I was 12, I was driving our standard transmission tractor all over our farm, hauling loads and backing the loaded trailer up the ramp into the hay loft. Learning how to operate a vehicle isn't difficult; it is all the arbitrary "rules of the road" that require a certain amount of familiarity, and even then it's not that hard. I learned about guns and how to handle them properly when I was 10. Operation is not difficult at all, and safety is mostly a matter of common sense. > > > or the reverse, a database of "you can't > own guns" people. > > > > This is a much better approach, as it would be made up > of people who, > > > > The difficulty with the reverse license is searching for > someone who is > not there. Or proving you are not in the database. I'm not sure that I'm following you. If you are a duly registered bad guy who is prohibited by the courts from possessing a firearm, you name is put on a "Prohibited Persons Registry" list. When a guy sells you a gun, he calls up the local PD and ask them to check for your name. Either it appears or it doesn't. If it doesn't, then you're good to go. > I'd like to comment that "hard to object to" > does not mean disagree. It > means that in the current political climate (political > reality?) it's just > difficult. This is just an excuse for not doing anything... > Changing the political climate regarding firearms to one > that's more to > our tastes is the challenge we face. IMHO. Nobody ever said that it was going to be easy, and nobody ever said that "freedom" was free. Yours in LIBERTY! Bruce ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V11 #675 *********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator's e-mail address: mailto:drg.jordan@sasktel.net List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca FAQ list: http://www.canfirearms/Skeeter/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://www.canfirearms.ca CFDigest Archives: http://www.canfirearms.ca/archives To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next four lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".)