“Canadians packed guns until the 1950s, when I was a kid,” he said. “People viewed it as a bit of self-reliance, whereas now there’s a feeling that the state will take care of us.”Well, you started out just fine and then you blew it.
Getting guns off the streets and out of the hands of criminals is one thing. Taking firearms out of circulation that have significant historical value is quite another, say Kangas and other gun enthusiasts.
This business of pitting one set of gun owners against another plays right into the hands of those who will ban them all--as if your current predicament shouldn't prove that beyond all question.
I guess getting criminals off the streets is too difficult a concept to grasp, eh?