Recent content by Fabius

Update on the continuing fallout of progressive Australian politicians reaction. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn09p4kjj4wo

All I can think about in reading this sentence is Ayn Rand’s book “Atlas Shrugged”. Highly recommended book.

I would love to see how exactly the Aussie Army 3 Brigade plans to fight as a Bde with that construct of three non similar units or at least two units the same with a 3rd unit of different type. Ie 2 Tank Bns and an Armoured Inf Bn Or 2 Armoured Inf Bns and a Tank Bn with 4 Sqns.

Here is the question and her full answer I suspect her first 2 sentences were generic somewhat flippant statements along the lines of we will always be able to send forces. The reminder of her comments address if we are ready for the current Russian, Chinese peer or above peer threat of...

Your point 1 is dead on arrival for most firearms owners now. Provinces, municipalities, police forces, and individuals don’t buy into it and are simply refusing to comply. The rest of your arguments have been tried repeatedly by individuals, groups, and provinces in the last 40 years. They...

@IKnowNothing What do you recommend? How do you envision gun control? How do you envision changing the conversation with Poly and the LPC? Are you satisfied with the current regulations? What would you change? I get the sense that you fully support banning all semi automatic magazine fed...

This is key. For the proponents of gun control no risk is acceptable, no utility is acceptable. Gun regulations in 2014 had achieved a degree of stability and social consensus. The LPC and Poly have destroyed that consensus, if was not lawful owners that did that. There always is an...

You are fixated on capability as determined by risk vs utility. Okay, what technical components increase risk? How are we defining risk? Risk to what? How do we manage risk? What are the mechanisms by which we can mitigate risk? Ie licensing vs banning. How are defining utility? Utility to...

In the Poly documents they explicitly state that just because a rifle is used for hunting does not make it a hunting rifle. However they do not ever define what they mean by hunting rifle.

Gun control in Canada largely starts and ends with Poly and a few others adjacent. It’s not an issue for most. Some of Polys thoughts in their own words; Policy document https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/441/SECU/Brief/BR12228832/br-external/PolySeSouvient-e.pdf ATIP’d Government...

That would require a Liberal Party that is not ideologically captured by the pro gun control elements and would be willing to listen. The government would need to think along the below lines.

So a definition of nonsensical understandings that gets ignored by its very drafters cannot be much of a useful thing.

One of the concerns that the gun control advocates have with internationally legitimate shooting sports is that they help make the participants proficient. No one on the gun control side in Canada has offered a technical description of “more”. It’s just “assault style”, which is emotional...

You are aware of the current and previous regulations in Canada right? Your post indicates some gaps. A bolt action rifle has no barrel length restrictions only the overall lengths apply. A bolt action rifle has zero magazine capacity restrictions, you can have as many as you want.

Someone needs to articulate what specific technical characteristic is too much for civilian ownership. Otherwise there is nothing to debate other than emotional feelings.