Gun-death figures called outrageous (Canada Registration)

Globe and Mail ^ | Tuesday, December 10, 2002 | By SHAWN MCCARTHY

[B4Ranch]

Maybe it needs to be formatted with the discs.

[backhoe]

Maybe it needs to be formatted with the discs.

Yes, sort of... obviously, I got some of it back... reformats didn't work, but fdisk & reformat /s did.

I'm damned if I can figure out what was going on... even after all that, the system gives me info ( like username ) that ought to be gone, utterly. And the CD-ROM is inaccessable and runs constantly for a few minutes after booting.

I may have a newer PC ( or rather, a cannibalized PC ) available- my wife remembered an abandoned unit at work; negotiations are underway...

[B4Ranch]

What O/S do you have?

[Destructor]

The really sad thing is that there is no way back for Canada! For them the Right of citizens to own firearms is lost. Now Canadians are doomed to reap the poison fruits of Liberalism!

[coydog]

Don't write us off just yet. Passing a law and getting butts out on the street and over every square inch of land we have (Canada is a BIIIIIIG country area-wise) to enforce it are two different things. A few years back in Oka, Quebec, a few armed natives who cared absolutely nothing for Canada's gun laws managed to pin down the police and military for weeks. Add to that increasing antagonism between the state and many people and they're pretty much high and dry outside their urban centers of support. If I see or hear my nieghbor owns something um... politically incorrect (not that I actually HAVE, huh-huh), and I know him to be responsible, I'll just develop selective blindness, deafness and amnesia.

[Destructor]

The fact remains that it is almost impossible to regain a Right once you forfeit it to any government! You have a long uphill battle ahead of you, and the odds are against you.

[coydog]

I don't give our government another twenty years, the way it's going and separatist movements sprouting everywhere.

[Destructor]

I agree with you on that point! I think another factor in the equation is the invasion of our country by illegal immigrants from Mexico. Their numbers are now getting to the point that they are straining Social Services available in most Texas cities. How much longer can the American people ignore this problem? How long before we rise up in anger and demand that our politicians send 'em back, and institute tighter controls on the border?