Reply #126: All right, I'm starting to get annoyed.

[Irreverend IX]

My statements were all directly paraphrased from your words in the linked thread.

Specifically, if you ask humble moi's opinion about the situation in Canada:
- "collectors" should not be permitted to own restricted or prohibited weapons (that includes handguns);
- "collectors" should not be permitted to maintain their collections in residential premises or in premises that are not subject to effective 24-hour active security (not merely passive security, i.e. locks etc.).

Ban on handguns, 24-hour active security, it's all right there.

Ah yes. "The poor" -- the many, many of them who own $40,000 worth of firearms, fraudulently secure possession of a rental unit in a subsidized housing building in Toronto, and then go away to the home they own in Florida ... knowing that those guns in the big safe in the empty apartment back in Toronto were protecting them.

I assume that your legislative goals are not specific to the case of Mike Hargreaves, and I'd bet that many stolen guns used by Canadian criminals come from collections smaller than Mike's. So tell me, how large would a gun collection have to be to qualify for 24-hour active protection if you had your way? Just one stolen pistol can do a lot of harm, after all. If small-time collectors and target shooters are allowed to possess arms without security worthy of weapons-grade plutonium, a remote chance of criminals stealing their weapons will remain.

Too bad about the lack of fast response to incidents in bad neighbourhoods where you're at, or at least according to you. Maybe you should try to get yourself some kind of functioning government.

The police will protect you, so you don't have to protect yourself. Your world sounds like a fun place to live. Does every Victory Mansion come with a free telescreen?