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      05-13-2021, 04:16 PM   #3015
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Most of what the gun crowds mentions is truth. Just because you're anti gun doesn't change that or make advocates hysterical.
Surely it isn't just because I prefer gun safety. I don't have that kind of influence!
The gun crowd can be characterized as hysterical because they don't believe statistics. I mean, the gun deaths in Canada are not comparable to those in the US, probably because they have better (not perfect) gun laws.
We won't even mention Australia....
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I'm not sure why you'd say you can't use a gun to defend yourself in Canada. The Criminal code is pretty clear about that. The reality is this, if you use a firearm to protect yourself and your family you will in all likelyhood find yourself charged criminally. Having said that almost no one has ever been convicted. At the end of the day that is a risk I will take against the alternative of being the victim. I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
You're right on that, sir.
It's just that I don't want to go through that hassle. I also feel that I'd be more susceptible to a break-in in Canada because of having a gun in the house (maybe I'm wrong on that perception...)

I fully agree with you on the tried by 12 than carried by 6 thing - so in the US, I keep firearms.
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And on a lighter note, we deal with mental midgets on a daily basis. Any insults, prejudices and Holier Than Thou moral lectures from the uninformed woke crowd is just water on a duck's back.

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Surely it isn't just because I prefer gun safety. I don't have that kind of influence!
The gun crowd can be characterized as hysterical because they don't believe statistics. I mean, the gun deaths in Canada are not comparable to those in the US, probably because they have better (not perfect) gun laws.
We won't even mention Australia....
Lies, damn lies, and statistics…see my last post in this thread for reference.

It’s a dead giveaway when you start mentioning Australia, by the way…
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At some point you will come to realize that you can't fix people with more laws.
Bingo.
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      05-13-2021, 08:13 PM   #3020
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Just saw on one of our regional news web sites that our county's sheriff is issuing these to all deputies. Is this an April Fools joke, or an actual tool being offered to police forces? Do they actually work to stop someone who is fleeing?????

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      05-13-2021, 08:16 PM   #3021
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Just saw on one of our regional news web sites that our county's sheriff is issuing these to all deputies. Is this an April Fools joke, or an actual tool being offered to police forces? Do they actually work to stop someone who is fleeing?????

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Just saw on one of our regional news web sites that our county's sheriff is issuing these to all deputies. Is this an April Fools joke, or an actual tool being offered to police forces? Do they actually work to stop someone who is fleeing?????

I WISH we had those. That would be a wonderful tool. It would, in theory, limit how much deadly force we might have to use. I would much rather use that than a stun bag shotgun.
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      05-13-2021, 08:17 PM   #3022
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Yeah that actually looks like pretty cool tech that would actually work/help officers.
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Lies, damn lies, and statistics…see my last post in this thread for reference.

It’s a dead giveaway when you start mentioning Australia, by the way…
Please elaborate. I'm not trying to sway the conversation either way or throw gas on a fire, just genuinely curious. You did mention earlier today you've written about this subject but I didn't see anything in detail. What statistics are you referring to?

I don't know much about Australia other than it's illegal to own a firearm unless it's registered by serial number and the owner must have a license.
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Please elaborate. I'm not trying to sway the conversation either way or throw gas on a fire, just genuinely curious. You did mention earlier today you've written about this subject but I didn't see anything in detail. What statistics are you referring to?

I don't know much about Australia other than it's illegal to own a firearm unless it's registered by serial number and the owner must have a license.
1. Highlighted the relevant portion I drew issue with
2. The anti-gun side doesn't believe statistics either unless they're extremely cherry picked with little context to "support" the anti-gun side
3. We are at risk of getting this thread pruned due to political discussion, which Jason has kindly but firmly requested we refrain from on this forum.

If this were a regional forum or something I'd say let's meet up and hash it out over beers but yeah. DM me if you're genuinely interested in learning more and having this discussion.

This next is for LB:
4. Don't EVEN bring up "well the CDC was banned from studying and that's why the statistics..." as your next train of thought. I've been round and round and round this discussion.
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Lies, damn lies, and statistics…see my last post in this thread for reference.

It’s a dead giveaway when you start mentioning Australia, by the way…
Two posts by you that said basically nothing?
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This next is for LB:
4. Don't EVEN bring up "well the CDC was banned from studying and that's why the statistics..." as your next train of thought. I've been round and round and round this discussion.
Learn some manners, pls.
You can go round & round your toilet bowl, for all I care.

CDC Study Ban?:

"Passed in 1997 with the strong backing of the NRA, the so-called "Dickey Amendment" effectively bars the national Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from studying firearm violence...."
"Besides, experts say, non-partisan research could uncover a plethora of suggestions to help stem the tide of violence -- education strategies, guns storage solutions, etc. -- that don't include limiting access to guns.

"Violence prevention researchers are invested in less violence, not fewer guns," Corby said. "Their end game is not to take away guns.""

https://www.gunpolicy.org/templates/...tpage-head.jpg

https://abcnews.go.com/US/federal-go...ry?id=50300379

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We got into a shootout today. Really bad friggin' day. Ughhhh!
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Yeah that actually looks like pretty cool tech that would actually work/help officers.
This is straight out of a James Bond movie!
(I'll have to watch the older ones now - something like this was exhibited in 'Q' branch as Bond is walking about)
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And on a lighter note, we deal with mental midgets on a daily basis. Any insults, prejudices and Holier Than Thou moral lectures from the uninformed woke crowd is just water on a duck's back.

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We got into a shootout today. Really bad friggin' day. Ughhhh!
Oh dear. I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you and your fellow officers are physically all right.
And I hope you get through the mental up and down component quickly too
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We got into a shootout today. Really bad friggin' day. Ughhhh!
Did you win?
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Bingo.
So "Charlemagne? George Washington? Or was it Lincoln?", etc., had it wrong, but Clan hits Bingo with his wild west mentality?
OK....
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So "Charlemagne? George Washington? Or was it Lincoln?", etc., had it wrong, but Clan hits Bingo with his wild west mentality?
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Yes, exactly. Glad you understand.

BTW, the "wild west" was never wild. That is a Hollywood myth.
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Yes, exactly. Glad you understand.

BTW, the "wild west" was never wild. That is a Hollywood myth.


Yes, even before Hollywood existed!
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Yes, even before Hollywood existed!
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From your link:
"Dozens of movies have portrayed the nineteenth-century mining camps in the West as hot beds of anarchy and violence, but John Umbeck discovered that, beginning in 1848, the miners began forming contracts with one another to restrain their own behavior (1981, 51)."
"The mining camps hired “enforcement specialists”—justices of the peace and arbitrators—and developed an extensive body of property and criminal law."

ie: they made laws.
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