[103182] in Cypherpunks
Re: [short] Updated quote from Allan Rock
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edwin E. Smith)
Mon Sep 21 19:56:02 1998
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:07:49 -0400
To: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
From: "Edwin E. Smith" <edsmith@IntNet.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199809211555.LAA10768@cti06.citenet.net>
Reply-To: "Edwin E. Smith" <edsmith@IntNet.net>
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I wonder if this fellow would allow that the protection of HIS life
is "NOT a legitimate use for a firearm...".
Edwin
At 11:51 AM 9/21/98 -0400, you wrote:
>This is the complete quote from Alan Rock, then justice minister who
pushed
>the gun control, registration and confiscation bill (C-68).
>
>
>"I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this
>country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers."
>
>-- Allan Rock, Canada's Minister of Justice, quoted in _Maclean's_
> "Taking Aim on Guns", April 25, 1994, page 12.
>
>
>"... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm
> in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!".
>
> Justice Minister Allan Rock
> "Canadian justice issues, a town hall meeting"
> Producer - Joanne Levy,
> Shaw cable, Calgary (403) 250-2885
> Taped at the Triwood community centre in Calgary Dec.1994
>
>
>
>
>Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics, Montreal, Canada
>
> JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers
> Instrumentation & control, LabView programming
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