I'm definitely scared of guns. I don't think I've ever seen one outside of a display case. I used to hang out on a left-wing (and mostly pro-gun control) board a lot, and we'd periodically have these invasions from right-wing gun nuts - people who were understandably pissed off about the Canadian gun registry (which has been an expensive failure), and they would tell us they were responsible with their weapons and they needed their guns in case someone invaded their homes (which happens how often in North America, exactly?) and quote one line of Freud at us repeatedly about how a fear of weapons is a sign of sexual immaturity or something, but then they'd choose handles like "HippieKiller" and salivate about the prospect of shooting unarmed people at protests.
I don't really understand the NRA mentality because there is no "right to bear arms" in the Canadian constitution, so there isn't the same argument that it's a patriotic duty or that gun control takes away a fundamental right.
Oh, I've read that argument too, but the right to bear arms in some capacity is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. I'm not sure our Charter of Rights even mentions guns.
I'm not a member of the NRA but my father is. Or he was--I don't know if he still is. I grew up with guns in the house. Like razzberryberet said, they were everywhere in the house. So not surprisingly, I grew up knowing how to use a gun and I'm not very afraid of them. I don't have any strong feelings regarding control.
This survey was curiosity prompted by something Jack McCoy said on a rerun of Law and Order last night. It was an episode inspired by the massacre at École Polytechnique. Jack said that when the 2nd Amendment was written, most Americans didn't own or know how to use a gun and that that's still true. Hence my not-at-all-scientific research.
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Date: 2004-01-07 06:22 am (UTC)I don't really understand the NRA mentality because there is no "right to bear arms" in the Canadian constitution, so there isn't the same argument that it's a patriotic duty or that gun control takes away a fundamental right.
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Date: 2004-01-07 03:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-07 03:07 pm (UTC)This survey was curiosity prompted by something Jack McCoy said on a rerun of Law and Order last night. It was an episode inspired by the massacre at École Polytechnique. Jack said that when the 2nd Amendment was written, most Americans didn't own or know how to use a gun and that that's still true. Hence my not-at-all-scientific research.