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Originally Posted by Rifle
Separation, Canuck. That's the only way for Alberta. But I don't have much hope of that. The cities would never go for it. Montana's looking better all the time.
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I agree, and I've been saying it for years. We may finally be getting to the point where a majority of Albertans feel that way (though it's dicey, just look at who got elected as mayors in Edmonton and Calgary, that says a lot about our changing demographics here)....but we don't have a legitimate separatist movement here imo. Wexit sure isn't, and it's getting more fringe every day.
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Originally Posted by Rvsask
This is part of the problem. How many people do you think support the ban because they equate Canadian hunters and sportsman, or gun owners with the same armed protesters across the border in the USA? If you do not believe those people look nuts, then you are not in the majority. If responsible Canadian gun owners choose to attach themselves to how things go on in the USA and approach it in an NRA like fashion then they are most definitely going to be the minority and will lose.
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You are exactly right. We are already an unloved minority in Canada. If we want to kill any support we can even hope to have from non gun owners, an armed protest is the surest way to do it. And then you will see a crackdown like you've never seen before.
It would be far better if we showed up as a broad spectrum of society, with people in their business suits, work coveralls, doctors nurses teachers....anybody who is a normal gun owner who lives a normal life. That is how we need to present ourselves because that is truly who we are, and the best way to relate to everyone who is not a gun owner is for them to see we are just like them.
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