Reminder: Caution
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Hey guys –
This is a horrible thing to have to put on a fishing board but it’s a good reminder to us all.
Absolutely right.
I have two beautiful little girls that are in my care and one of the things I will drill into their heads at the appropriate time is NEVER hike alone…especially women.
But as Zach said, its not just a male/female thing.
things like this and the fact that I’m a citizen of America, my son, son-in-law and I go tomorrow for our Carry Permit.
It is a nice reminder to be cautious when you encounter a whack job, but I refuse to live my life in fear of this type of person. There is nothing more spiritual than getting away alone in the wilderness. I have always felt when my numbers up, my numbers up! That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t fight tooth and nail to get away from someone like this. I am just not going to let myself worry about ever encountering him in the first place.
Patrick I like your neighbors!
Joel
In Tennessee it use to be a concealed permit, the last few years it’s not, if you want to scare the “do gooders” I can wear it on my side like the wild west.
It was an eight hour class, class room and range instruction.
There was a lady that took it with us, wearing a 5.9 carat diamond, and you wouldn’t want to try and take her diamond. She is new to the shooting sport. I myself was handed a firearm at birth, before the doctor cleaned out my ears 😉
I’m not scared of nothing, BUT, with all the meth labs and such these days, plus my hearing is not getting better as I age
Not trying to offend anyone…but for those of you that carry…what is it exactly that you would do with a gun?
I value my own life a whole lot more than some methed out loser’s; it’s a good question though, definitely not to be taken lightly.
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Not trying to offend anyone…but for those of you that carry…what is it exactly that you would do with a gun?
I’m so glad I live where I live………… 😛
Morsie
Morsie’s point is sort of where I was headed with mine.
Im not going to touch the right to bear debate with a 14ft spey.
But.
but my guess is Morsie could layout a nice case for not allowing civilians to have guns. I think alot of times we are ethnocentric in thinking the US of A is the best thing going.
Not neccessarily Seafood.
Our laws are fairly strict and prohibitive.
Canada’s tough new gun control law, which took effect Jan. 1, 2001, requires individuals to obtain licenses to posses or purchase either guns or ammunition. By Jan. 1, 2003, registration of all guns in Canada will be required. The Firearms Act regulations apply to the importing, exporting, possession, use, storage, display and transportation of all firearms, and are in effect across the country.
Under the Canadian Firearms Act, the three classes of firearms are:
1)Non-restricted (most ordinary rifles and shotguns);
2)Restricted (mainly handguns); and
3)Prohibited (full automatics, converted automatics, handguns with a barrel length of 105 mm (approx. 4″) or less, and .25 or .32 caliber handguns among others).One might think that Canada wouldnt have gun problems. The problem is, it isnt law abiding citizens you have to worry about. I live/work in Toronto and gang related violence is, depending on who you listen to, very much a problem and the illicit gun trade is of great concern, many of which are smuggled north. England, from what I understand is also having similiar problems although dont quote me.
And thats all Im going to say about that 🙂
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not quite, feel i should clarify.
Alot of Torontonians are/were shocked at the “wanton” violence thats been occuring is the last few years, trust me some of it atleast for “us” has been pretty brazen. “Toronto the Safe”? Two summers, not a day went by that there wasnt a headline about the “Summer of the Gun”.A blurb from a US Newspaper.
TORONTO — A city that prides itself as one of the safest in North America is bewildered by a surge in violence that has produced a record number of shooting deaths this year, the latest a 15-year-old girl on a street filled with holiday shoppers.Whatever the cause, Canadians recoiled Tuesday after a gunbattle the previous day in Toronto left the teenage bystander lying dead and six other people wounded in a street near a popular shopping mall.
It was the 52nd death inflicted by a firearm this year in Canada’s biggest city, which is nearly twice as many as last year and raised the overall homicide toll to 78 — not far below the record 88 homicides of 1991.
From this year.
Two men have each been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the weekend shooting death of 11-year-old Ephraim Brown at an outdoor party, Toronto police said Monday[qote]
The 2002 Michael Moore documentary film Bowling for Columbine was partly filmed in Toronto. Moore visited suburbs in Toronto, where he found front doors unlocked and much less concern over crime and security.
In 2005, Toronto media coined the term “Year of the Gun” because the number of gun-related homicides reached 52 out of 80 murders in total;[1] almost double the 27 gun deaths recorded the previous year.[2] On December 26, 2005, 15-year-old Jane Creba was shot and killed in the Boxing Day shooting while shopping on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto. After this incident, many people called for the federal government to ban handguns in Canada; this also became an issue in the 2006 federal election.
In May 2007, the shooting death of Jordan Manners, a 15-year-old, at his school, C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, raised calls for a ban on handguns again.
On July 22, 2007, 11-year-old Ephraim Brown was killed after being shot in the neck by a stray bullet, during a gang shooting in the city’s north end at Jane Street and Sheppard Avenue.
On March 17, 2007 and on July 21, 2007, there had been early morning shooting deaths in the Oakwood-Vaughan neighbourhood. Both shootings happened during parties.
TORONTO – The stray bullet that struck and killed 15-year-old Jane Creba while she was shopping on a busy downtown street on Boxing Day 2005, left an indelible mark on the psyche of Canada’s largest city.
In Toronto, 2005 is still known as The Year of The Gun.
Yet two years later, murder rates have spiked to even higher levels.
Rosemary Gartner, a criminologist at the University of Toronto, says in the past Toronto has typically seen about 60 murders a year.
For the first time in more than 20 years, however, those numbers have spiked in two of the past three years, to 78 in 2005 and 82 so far in 2007.
Does Toronto have a gun problem?
I think soBeing a commercial photographer I would be out early and late with a large view camera shooting buildings and landscapes. I was downtown shooting one day and I was under the dark cloth and I heard someone approach from the side. I pulled the cloth down and reached into my camera case for my holster and put it in my pocket. The guy paused looked at me and said “wuz up man” or words to that effect. I told him that I was shooting a picture of the church keeping my hand in my pocket around the tan leather holster after a few tense moments the guy moved on. I don’t know if he intended to harm me or not but I knew something wasn’t right.
After he got around the corner I pulled the holster from my pocket removed the 1 degree light meter
Not at all a comment on your gun laws – I think ours are too tight, more an observation on space, population densities, and the simple need to carry some protection – and we don’t have bears. I really feel for you guys having to carry firearms for protection when fishing – and that protection is from “humans”. We also have our fair share of loonies and serial killers, probably the worst single civilian massacre happened in Australia and that caused an immediate tightening up of the gun laws – but at least we had a reaction that wasn’t “give everyone a gun and it won’t happen again” but was “there’s too many guns in the community”. Mostly it was automatic and semi-auto weapons that were removed surrendered.
However from a distance I find it astonishing that you have all these school and campus massacres and nothing happens to your gun laws.
Morsie
Guns are a part of our culture for better or worse. We have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms here in the USA. We have a pretty good ongoing discussion about this but I think it comes down to freedom. If a crazy person or a martyr is hell bent on committing a crime or killing people they will find a way. I believe gun control means hitting what your aiming at but we need to fine tune our gun laws.
David, believe me we watch the events and listen to the “conversations” in great detail. Not being in the thick of it or part of the culture does give you a different perspective.
Morsie
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