Mike
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Looks like this LA Times article has storred the pot around the world!
Canadian emails to sayMrs. Jensen will be in Canada's version of Attica prison should she ever travel there.:shock: And the whole Jensen family will be searched at the border now.:X
The email seems so angry, doesn't it?
Anyone know if this email violates any Canadaina laws? Canadian laws don't respect free speech as much our's do under the First Amendment.
Forwarded Message:
Subj: Media Coverage
There is something tastless - and warped - about a mother, wearing a gun holster, toddler in hand collecting groceries. Here, that mommie would be locked up - and the key thrown away.
The syndicated story in which the Jensens "appear" has done nothing for your cause outside of the United States, and has bascially reinforced the stereotype of Americans, which the vast majority of us find throughly tasteless - and dangerous - to put it mildly. The image of the gauche American, wearing a ten gallon hat, sitting on the Champs Elysee, unable to comprehend a thing - is what your organisation represents to many of us.
If the Jensens are so vocal about this misconstrued right to carry a gun - why not show your faces, instead of a holster? That way, at the Canadian border, you can be identified, your possessions searched to ensure no illegal arms are about your person before enjoying your time in the North ? I guess the vast majority of us are thankful most Americans don't own a passport and stay within their own country, if this pressure group is anything to go by.
British police, incidentally, are not armed as a matter of course, with ARVs ( Armed Response Vehicles) on call 24 hours a day to back-up the unarmed bobby which is something British citizens jealously protect. My brother is a British police officer, and vehemently opposes arming. Care to comment?
Gun control for many of us is as important as the right to "bear arms" is for you. Actually, doesn't your right come from being part of an organised militia ? Or is that groups of mommies and daddies going to Costco with Glocks?
You are as entitled to your views as those who oppose such behaviour. The next time someone gets mown down in my home city of London UK, or my adopted home of Toronto, by a firearm which will no doubt be traced back to the US, I will try to see the sense in what you are doing.
Ian Carruthers
Looks like this LA Times article has storred the pot around the world!
Canadian emails to sayMrs. Jensen will be in Canada's version of Attica prison should she ever travel there.:shock: And the whole Jensen family will be searched at the border now.:X
The email seems so angry, doesn't it?
Anyone know if this email violates any Canadaina laws? Canadian laws don't respect free speech as much our's do under the First Amendment.
Forwarded Message:
Subj: Media Coverage
There is something tastless - and warped - about a mother, wearing a gun holster, toddler in hand collecting groceries. Here, that mommie would be locked up - and the key thrown away.
The syndicated story in which the Jensens "appear" has done nothing for your cause outside of the United States, and has bascially reinforced the stereotype of Americans, which the vast majority of us find throughly tasteless - and dangerous - to put it mildly. The image of the gauche American, wearing a ten gallon hat, sitting on the Champs Elysee, unable to comprehend a thing - is what your organisation represents to many of us.
If the Jensens are so vocal about this misconstrued right to carry a gun - why not show your faces, instead of a holster? That way, at the Canadian border, you can be identified, your possessions searched to ensure no illegal arms are about your person before enjoying your time in the North ? I guess the vast majority of us are thankful most Americans don't own a passport and stay within their own country, if this pressure group is anything to go by.
British police, incidentally, are not armed as a matter of course, with ARVs ( Armed Response Vehicles) on call 24 hours a day to back-up the unarmed bobby which is something British citizens jealously protect. My brother is a British police officer, and vehemently opposes arming. Care to comment?
Gun control for many of us is as important as the right to "bear arms" is for you. Actually, doesn't your right come from being part of an organised militia ? Or is that groups of mommies and daddies going to Costco with Glocks?
You are as entitled to your views as those who oppose such behaviour. The next time someone gets mown down in my home city of London UK, or my adopted home of Toronto, by a firearm which will no doubt be traced back to the US, I will try to see the sense in what you are doing.
Ian Carruthers