You know the stereotype. Us Canucks are too nice, too polite, too reserved...
Really?
Check out this trifecta of news stories that seem to undercut the stereotype. Here's a story about an old-school bench clearing hockey brawl out in Nova Scotia last weekend between a couple of University hockey teams.
Still on the hockey theme, it's not just the hockey players who get into it; it's the "hockey parents" too! Here's a bunch of grown adults mixing it up in the parking lot after their young 'uns mixed it up on the ice.
And just to prove us Canucks can get our dander up about more than hockey, how about this headline; "Bingo brawl at nursing home prompts OPP response."
Too nice?
Too polite?
Too reserved?...
Kiss my icicle-encrusted ass! Canadians will drop the gloves over damned near anything!
I'm just thankful we've got some meaningful gun laws around here, otherwise any one of these stories could have got seriously out of control!
Showing posts with label Gun control in Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gun control in Canada. Show all posts
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Toronto nix's proposed bullet ban
Do-gooder councillor Adam Vaughn saw his proposed law to ban the sale and storage of bullets within the city limits get short shrift at a meeting of the city's executive committee today.
Vaughn hatched his proposal after a recent shoot-out between two wannabe gangsters that killed two and injured over twenty, none of whom were the shooters, thereby proving that both gangsters and the NYPD could benefit from a few more hours practice time at a shooting range.
This kind of well-intentioned foolishness normally gets considerable traction in Toronto, so I'm not sure what went wrong here. Maybe folks are coming to their senses.
The gang boys shooting up downtown Toronto don't buy their guns or their ammunition through legitimate channels, so such a move would do absolutely nothing to curb the proliferation of illegal hand-guns or the frequency of their use.
What it would do is further stigmatize law-abiding gun owners.
I remember a few years ago buying a box of .177 pellets for Junior's air rifle at Canadian Tire. The "ammo" is kept under lock and key. Before a store employee unlocks the cabinet you must produce ID which is dutifully recorded. The employee then carries the lethal purchase to the check-out for you, thereby preventing the possibility that one could whip out a Daisy air rifle, load up, and go on a murderous spree right there in the hunting & fishing aisle!
Perhaps the pendulum is starting to swing in the direction of common sense.
Vaughn hatched his proposal after a recent shoot-out between two wannabe gangsters that killed two and injured over twenty, none of whom were the shooters, thereby proving that both gangsters and the NYPD could benefit from a few more hours practice time at a shooting range.
This kind of well-intentioned foolishness normally gets considerable traction in Toronto, so I'm not sure what went wrong here. Maybe folks are coming to their senses.
The gang boys shooting up downtown Toronto don't buy their guns or their ammunition through legitimate channels, so such a move would do absolutely nothing to curb the proliferation of illegal hand-guns or the frequency of their use.
What it would do is further stigmatize law-abiding gun owners.
I remember a few years ago buying a box of .177 pellets for Junior's air rifle at Canadian Tire. The "ammo" is kept under lock and key. Before a store employee unlocks the cabinet you must produce ID which is dutifully recorded. The employee then carries the lethal purchase to the check-out for you, thereby preventing the possibility that one could whip out a Daisy air rifle, load up, and go on a murderous spree right there in the hunting & fishing aisle!
Perhaps the pendulum is starting to swing in the direction of common sense.
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