At 06:36 AM 26/09/2006, you wrote: >I've an abiding distast of government officials and actively dislike >relying on them for anything, especially protection. Especially since >the local PD is famed for doing a better job of framing innocent >shopkeepers as drug dealers than actually catching anyone who's >committed a crime. While I appreciate the job the Police actually do >(And the problem with the Toronto PD is primarily at the administration >and City Council levels), the job they do is to catch criminals, not >protect innocents. The latter occurs to the extent it does simply via >deterrence and getting criminals off the streets (Although with teh >Canadian Criminal Justice system, too often the ones who stay behind >bars have proved innocent, while the truly guilty tend to get out >relatively quick).
I'm not anti firearms (though I don't think much of handguns), I've been shooting and hunting a couple of times and it's good fun (the target practice was fun, the hunting might have been more interesting if Roo's weren't so stupid. But foxes are as cunning as they are made out to be.) The idea that people would be safer if they were allowed to carry a gun in the event they needed to defend them self is bullshit IMHO. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
