Irresponsible Alberta gun nuts shoot down privileges at public shooting range

[SecularMotion]

It was apparently the only target they couldn’t hit — the one calling for less mess, better behaviour and safe, sensible use of firearms.

The bullet-riddled result is the closure of a popular Kananaskis rifle-and-shotgun range, after the non-profit group running the public site near Hwy. 68 declared too many shooters as irresponsible and a safety risk to others.

“Our concern is that this not just a few bad apples anymore,” said Bob Richards, president of the Alberta Provincial Rifle Association, which manages the Homestead Range at Sibbald Flats.

“Twenty-five-years ago, it might have been a few bad apples, but this is now a common level of behaviour and it falls below the acceptable level of safety.”

http://www.calgarysun.com/2015/11/01/irresponsible-alberta-gun-nuts-shoot-down-privileges-at-public-shooting-range

[HassleCat]

1. I know what he means

When I was a kid, we were allowed to shoot rats at the dump. The guys who ran the dump knew we would not put bullet holes in the buildings or equipment, so they told us where we could shoot, and nobody thought much about it. But we didn't have assault rifles and 10k rounds of ammunition. We didn't fire so many rounds into trees that we toppled them as if they'd been sawed down. We didn't send stray bullets whizzing through neighborhoods. We didn't start fires with tracer rounds. We didn't do many of the things so common now. Richards is right. It's not just a few bad apples anymore. Bad behavior is common. I'm not sure why, but I think it has to do with promoting the notion that freedom means, "I can do whatever I want, and you can't stop me."

[Fred Sanders]

2. Guns are the tools of the feeble-minded and the military, mainly.

[krispos42]

6. Amazing how being able to haul an 80-pound rucksack 12 miles magically...

...makes all those solders strong-minded.


Or are the military men and women also feeble-minded?

Perhaps, because you're so smart and I'm so feeble-minded, you can explain to the board how taking an oath and a couple of months of exercise while being screamed at by drill sergeants whips all the feeble-mindedness out of soldiers?

I'm really looking forward to it. I promise to refrain from applying a fresh coat of paint to the wall before I read it, so your smart words will have my undivided attention.

[Fred Sanders]

7. Obviously my meaning and reasoning was more along these lines:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12629968

[DonP]

9. "Meaning and reasoning" Well there's your oxymoron for the week folks

[krispos42]

13. I don't see any uniformed service members in that comic.

I'm still waiting for my question to be answered.

[Eleanors38]

15. You've a negative, disparaging attitude toward the "feeble-minded," and toward our soldiers.

These kind of raw insults are what gives liberals a reputation of being anti-American, and of having a trumped-up notion of being better educated (i.e., running down those who have mental problems).

This goes on frequently at DU with little fear of consequence.

[Fred Sanders]

17. "Trumped up" is a good phrase to use for what gun lovers bring to the table in debate about

how to end the epidemic of gun violence and death in America.

Can I use it to refer also to the gun lovers and NRA lovers of the Republican Party?

[Eleanors38]

18. So, you never heard of that expression before the Donald gave the go-ahead?

[saturnsring]

4. typical red-neck human behavior

[ileus]

5. I had to share the "free range" with probably 30 other people a few weekends ago.

Makes me glad I joined another club, hardly ever crowded and always full of real gun owners.


I find the free range to be full of wal-mart type gun owners, and the club is full of real gun guys.

Problem is the free range is 15 minutes away while my club is closer to 45, so if I just want to try something out, or if making a trade, or just a quick sighting in I will head there.

[FLson]

8. I went in with 46 other people and bought 43 acres of land

for a whole host of purposes. Ten of those acres are for hobbyist shooting as many of us are either Civil War or Revolutionary War renactors and we like to shoot our old guns and the ocassional cannon (2 inchers following the Woodruff design).

Mostly I like the fresh eggs, strawberries, and watermelons we have now. And lots of fresh water prawns.

[ileus]

14. I used be in on a nice hunting lease of 2000 acres.

24 of us total....those were the pre kid days of hunting and fishing.

It was also back in the days of where threats of gun bans and silly stuff like we have today was far and few between.

[Snobblevitch]

10. The gun nuts who caused this shooting range to close down

represent all that is wrong with American gun culture....

[gejohnston]

11. You mean Canadian gun culture?

[Snobblevitch]

12. Was my sarcasm too subtle?

[Eleanors38]

16. Some would say: "Close enuff for gubmint work."