Quote Originally Posted by Big Gills View Post
You have me confused with someone else cuz I would never slam America. I consider the States to be our good friends south of the border and we have fought side by side in many wars. I was addressing the nation itself that guns are getting into the wrong hands and I pray something is done about that soon. Now the folks that come to this site i believe to be hard working, normal, responsible people and should own as many guns as they please. My concern has to do have gun laws to stop the crazies and criminals from getting them. Zimmerman was unstable and should not have had one. End of story. Its my plea to the US, Mr Redneckshadtrap, nothing more than that.

Gills, I elected to respond to your comments in an open forum, not by private mail nor through Peter, because you posted in an open forum and everyone should see our responses.

Just to set the record straight, as far as I can ascertain it is against the law for a felonious criminal to own guns in the USA. That still won't keep them out of their hands because there are multiple ways they can get them. There is always someone on the street willing to sell them, residential break-ins, thefts, and robberies will also help them to get one. Drug dealers have guns and they can buy them legally if they haven't been charged with a crime; they also do it through exchange of drugs for guns; they are into criminal activity for money, so the guns are sold on the streets.

I took the statement you made about "God forbid you folks should ever have to abide by any rules," and "You folks should be allowed to do whatever you want" as condescending, insulting, and very offensive. It's easy for you to portray Canada as a perfect nation because you think we don't know anything about it; that would be a wrong assumption. By the same token, you haven't spent enough time in the United States, far enough south of the border, to know anything about our people; all you have read and/or seen on TV is most likely sensationalized to get people to read it or watch it on the news. Like you, we are civilized people; not 'you folks' and not a bunch of hillbillies and cavemen.

If Canada was all you want us to think that it is, why were YOU a guard at one of their prisons where only criminals are incarcerated?