Hey alice, I remembered!
“Canada could have had French food, English culture and American government. Instead, they ended up with French government, English food and American culture.”
'course, the first place I heard that was Victoria.
Oh yeah-but apparently it’s okay to imply that anyone who is for gun control is a Nazi?
:rolleyes:
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I think I might be able to shed some light on this …
My father is an amateur gunsmith and collector of antique weapons. Oh … worth noting that he and I both live in Canada (BC to be specific)
He was quite angered several years ago when Alan Rock introduced a series of gun control laws in a bill (I did not care enough to remember the bill number … sorry).
He was very inflamed and would rant to me for ages about this. I did not look into it much as my father is routinely getting irritated at the government for something (in his defense WCB has been bending him over and taking him rectally for over 27 years now).
He did however give me a shirt that bears the same phrase along with a picture of Hitler on the front.
He told me that the gun control laws being put into place in Canada were identical to the original ones used in Nazi Germany when the Nazis began to establish control over the people. He was concerned that this level of control would lead to the potential for similar abuses of the populace that Jewish people suffered under Nazi hands.
I hope this clears things up for you …
BTW, weren’t guns prohibited in the Weimar Republic-BEFORE Hitler even came to power?
Comparing Canada to nazi or pre-nazi Germany is absurd.
Yes it is.
Would someone please move the “guns are good” and “no, they suck” portion of this discussion to IMHO? I was having fun teasing alice before all the gun junk.
Dad gummit, I thought this thread was about bumber stickers, not guns.
Actually, there was never anything to clear up - I am completely clear on my opinion. The guy with the bumper sticker looks like a ignorant jackass. If you wear the shirt, you look like an ignorant jackass.
The bumper sticker didn’t say “If you support an oppressive amount of gun control, similar to that employed by the Third Reich, you may be supporting nazi-like policies.”
It said if you support gun control, you ARE a nazi.
Ignorant, offensive and erroneous, as I said previously.
Mailbag answer by DavidB:
So what, really, are you saying, alice?
Cumeer, let me show you what I learned at Hap Ki Do last night…
::kicks wildly, at approximately crotch height…::
Ah HA! But I have the answer to people who think they can win an argument by calling me a nazi…
“How dare you call me a nazi just because I have a German surname, you racist!”
I’m waiting for my first chance to use this.
There’s no definition of “Hate speech” in the Charter.
There IS such a definition in the Criminal Code. The bumper sticker isn’t even close to qualifying.
uummm … I wear the shirt because I like to piss people off. I don’t care a whole lot about gun control issues but I do like to see people get all worked up. It amuses me.
Probably the sign of some sort of mental issue, but such is life.
you may want to be careful with that, because, as you said…“Be nice to everyone … you never know who might be a ninja.”
Now, let me show You what I learned at Hap Ki Do last night.
::more grandiose, probably useless, but still impressive to watch kicks follow…::
[sub]that’s just a little joke, BTW folks [/sub]
caught the joke … did not figure you would ramp up a shirt into physical combat. grin
Hey man - any excuse to show of my AMAZING Hap Ki Do prowess!
[sub]Anyone that knows me IRL will appreciate what a HUGE joke that is…[/sub]
What disturbed me most about the OP was that alice had just recently seen that bumper sticker. You’ve been in wonderland for a long time, huh?
No - Canada.
This is what keeps me from putting bumper stickers about my favorite controversial causes on my car. I’m worried someone will get enraged and hit my bumper, or try to scrape it off when I’m parked.
I’m not into nun-beating or puppy fur for coats or anything like that, but I feel pretty strongly about abortion rights, and I know some people who feel it’s murder can’t help but get fired up when they see pro-choice slogans. I mean, understandably. If I thought something was murder, I’d be apoplectic seeing someone with a bumper sticker advocating it.
You’ve given me cause to think.
Maybe I’ll pull the Mean People Suck sticker off my car
because I’d certainly hate to see a decrease in oral sex
proclivity amongst the nicies. 