Mr. Miller, you are indeed an idiot. (not design related)
So, as I am reading the Toronto Star, on Wednesday, May 28, the cover story conjured up some thoughts that I had to release via blogger.
The title of the article is this "PLAN TO BAN RANGES STUNS RECREATIONAL SHOOTERS"
What the story is about is how 'they' want to close private shooting ranges in the City.
As a prelude, I would like to say that from the time I was 8 or 9, I owned either a daisy pump rifle, a Co2 pellet rifle, or a handgun that shot b.b.'s., and I have not gone awol and killed a man.
Here are some excerpts from Jim Byers article.
"Charlie Gulston, an 81-year-old who took up the sport in 1962 and reckons he's won 300 awards, is lying on his stomach and peering at a distant series of bull's-eye targets through the sights of his air rifle."
I think that if Mr. Gulston were to approach me and shoot me with his air rifle, short of being a little pissed off, I MIGHT have a small flesh wound.
"There are grandmothers and grandfathers, teenagers and even a 24-year-old woman, Sandy Chan, who alternates her weeknights between target shooting, ballroom and swing dancing, and horseback riding lessons."
Well, David Miller, you are correct again. Let us close all the ranges, recall all the guns, and just to be safe, since Sandy Chan is an obvious threat to society, we should ban horseback riding lessons across the province. This is clearly proof that people who ride horseback enjoy shooting people.
The article goes on about Florence Morris, (a grandmother who has brought her two grandsons, and their bags of medals they have earned, to the range tonight) and how she thinks that "the mayor doesn't have the balls" to tackle the real issue here, of street guns and violence.
The people who frequent these facilities are tested AT the facility before being allowed to use it , and have to pass government testing as well.
There are a total of 10 shooting ranges in the GTA. If they do get shut down, those people who shoot there, (who have transportation) will have to travel outside of the GTA, and will shop there, and support other economy instead of local one.
Yet another well thought out idea, eh David?
So, now that I have had my chance to make a political rant in a design-designed blog, I will lay it to rest, but first I must ask, with all due respect, Mayor Miller, take your head out of your ass.
The title of the article is this "PLAN TO BAN RANGES STUNS RECREATIONAL SHOOTERS"
What the story is about is how 'they' want to close private shooting ranges in the City.
As a prelude, I would like to say that from the time I was 8 or 9, I owned either a daisy pump rifle, a Co2 pellet rifle, or a handgun that shot b.b.'s., and I have not gone awol and killed a man.
Here are some excerpts from Jim Byers article.
"Charlie Gulston, an 81-year-old who took up the sport in 1962 and reckons he's won 300 awards, is lying on his stomach and peering at a distant series of bull's-eye targets through the sights of his air rifle."
I think that if Mr. Gulston were to approach me and shoot me with his air rifle, short of being a little pissed off, I MIGHT have a small flesh wound.
"There are grandmothers and grandfathers, teenagers and even a 24-year-old woman, Sandy Chan, who alternates her weeknights between target shooting, ballroom and swing dancing, and horseback riding lessons."
Well, David Miller, you are correct again. Let us close all the ranges, recall all the guns, and just to be safe, since Sandy Chan is an obvious threat to society, we should ban horseback riding lessons across the province. This is clearly proof that people who ride horseback enjoy shooting people.
The article goes on about Florence Morris, (a grandmother who has brought her two grandsons, and their bags of medals they have earned, to the range tonight) and how she thinks that "the mayor doesn't have the balls" to tackle the real issue here, of street guns and violence.
The people who frequent these facilities are tested AT the facility before being allowed to use it , and have to pass government testing as well.
There are a total of 10 shooting ranges in the GTA. If they do get shut down, those people who shoot there, (who have transportation) will have to travel outside of the GTA, and will shop there, and support other economy instead of local one.
Yet another well thought out idea, eh David?
So, now that I have had my chance to make a political rant in a design-designed blog, I will lay it to rest, but first I must ask, with all due respect, Mayor Miller, take your head out of your ass.
posted by Joe Beausoleil at
10:19 AM
2 Comments:
why are they being closed? money? safety? political agenda? I don't get it.
I don't oppose the closures either as I am pretty much against guns - even the ones that probably won't even leave a flesh wound.
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Todd Haskins, At
May 30, 2008 at 1:14 PM
He wants to close them because in his mind, any gun use is bad gun use.
If no one is allowed to use guns, then there will be no gun crime.
Sure, makes sense. If no one is allowed to beat their wives, does it happen anyhow? Let us ban relationships so that people won't get hurt. As well, we should make kitchen knives illegal, because more people are killed with knives in domestics than tey are with guns.
I suppose, Todd, all I am saying is that if we punish the law abiding citizens (see: firearms registration) then we are punishing the wrong people.
Once we stop the law abiding, safety conscious people, all we have left are the criminal, can't-aim-for-shit, people who have gun fights, with unregistered weapons, and the injure innocent by standers.
I can think of a lot more practical ways to help solve gun violence. Maybe we should start with the idea that if you are caught, anywhere, anyhow, anytime with an unregistered weapon, you get imprisoned for 30 years.
Yes, I am being a little unrealistic, but currently, they take the gun, give you a fine (Up to $2000), and send you out the the courthouse with a business card of a local smuggler.
By
Joe Beausoleil, At
May 30, 2008 at 2:12 PM
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