Metis

[Guest Derek L]

Well, you know,most Canadians aren't writhing in liberal guilt like you. Most Canadian, given a choice of giving away their house or fighting, will get themselves a gun and go hunting indians. Don't think they won't. It might be 2013 but people will still fight to protect what they've spent a lifetime building up. If you think the government could ever make a deal which even began to approach that you have a very poor imagination. It would spawn the bloodiest riots in Canadian history and wind up with the parliiament buildings and Supreme Court burned tothe ground and a lot of dead judges and politicians.

But I thought you wanted to ban private guns?

[Argus]

But I thought you wanted to ban private guns?

Did I ever say that?

[bush_cheney2004]

But I thought you wanted to ban private guns?

Too funny...now they want guns...and ammo !

[Guest Derek L]

Did I ever say that?

I'm sure something to that effect.........Or was that just folks that live in the city?

[Guest Derek L]

Too funny...now they want guns...and ammo !

Well, when the "Government gives their house away to the natives", they can go through the six month process like the rest of us prior to getting guns and ammo

[PIK]

You share the same rights with aboriginal people, too.

They can fish/hunt everwhere I fish/hunt ,but I can't fish/fish everywhere they do. They can block roads and rail lines and torment famlies. I can't. Edited January 14, 2013 by PIK

[Accountability Now]

They can fish/hunt everwhere I fish/hunt ,but I can't fish/fish everywhere they do. They can block roads and rail lines and torment famlies. I can't.

We are most certainly NOT equal to aboriginals....at least in the eyes of the courts. If an aboriginal commits a crime, he will be tried differently and prosectued differently then everyone else. There have been many Supreme Court cases showing that aboriginals have been favoured just to show resepct.

In regards to the whole Metis thing....I have come to terms with what we give to Status Indians living on the reserve but why would we give a red cent to anyone one else? If the 'white" man is to be blamed then why are they living among the white men? Why are they taking white men jobs? Most importantly...if they are 50% or 25% or 12.5% native (which was done wrong) then they must be 50% or 75% or 87.5% white (who the wronging!)

Seriously....that is the worst part about all of this. If you are not 100% native then join the rest of us taxpayers.

[g_bambino]

They can fish/hunt everwhere I fish/hunt ,but I can't fish/fish everywhere they do... I can't.

That doesn't disprove my statement.

[Argus]

I'm sure something to that effect.........Or was that just folks that live in the city?

First, my comment about Canadians grabbing guns was non-specific. Ie. it was a prediction of what any number of people might do, not what 'I' might do.

Second, I've never proposed banning guns entirely. What I want, first and foremost, is a drastic crackdown on anyone holding guns illegally, much less using them illegally. I'm talking life in prison here without parole. Second, what I suggested to get guns off the street, in addition to pounding smugglers and sellers into the ground, was that guns in urban areas be locked in central depots and picked up on the way out to go hunting. I don't accept that guns should be kept around the house for self-protection.