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Sorry Dude, with all your Ukraine posts I can't tell when you are serious or joking. Maybe if you stuck to your
"back in my day" posts then I could be sure. 😉

There is even more irony in that he had to sell his SKS going into a country that will let him buy an AR-15 to replace it. 🙄 😮

You know it! 😛 And as many 30 round mags as I want! 🙄

It's more a matter of supporting the "commie" industries like not allowing Cuban cigars in USA.

Do you really want to be judged by the fiction that's out there about Canada, that is, particularly genre fiction.

If he's a citizen, in Alabama he can save the money and buy another SKS or AK if he wants a cover chewer. If he's not a citizen, there's a lot he can't buy.
Various rules are mostly based on stupidity of the general public and a growing nanny state, just like every other country.
You know, like registering air guns and having a restriction on rifle caliber or pistol caliber magazine size but not both.
Or, like the UK fighting it out about seed harvesting restrictions and then Canada following along a bit later with the U.S. fight over it ongoing and around the corner.

If you really want to compare freedoms, we can talk about various entry, search and seizure aspects between the countries, too, ESPECIALLY the ones related to firearms.

Or, hey, maybe you guys could ask to have special permission sign-in area set up so you can bash other nations so the resident doesn't pop up to help somebody and see endless chortling.

If you don't like the rules, maybe you could just change your mind and skip the trip, and for sure stay out of my state. I'd really hate your attitude to be the ones my former neighbors carry away of Canadians.

Plus, there are long lines of people from all over who really want to come here. See, a lot of people come here to enjoy a better life one way or another. We're in the same spirals as other post-industrial nations, but we're all cowboys and killers, so we're a little behind the curve of the progressive nanny states.

Since your life and freedoms are better north of the border, maybe you should stay there and open up the visa, green card and other immigration human resources for somebody who wants to come to the U.S.

On my way now. I'll try to stay active on this forum. Hope I have all my Is dotted and Ts crossed...

I think that the majority of readers here were born in a time when the boundaries of our societies beliefs were more obvious. We all "knew" that Democracy is better than Socialism and Communism. We knew much of what formed our parents thoughts was based on hard times they lived thru during the dirty thirties. We knew that Hitler and Fascism had to be stopped and our parents did their part to make it so. We knew that Russia supported North Korea and that we should support South Korea and because our parents said it was so. We knew that JFK supported the people to the point that 2 Kennedy's died proving it. Then the 60's showed us that maybe peace was better than war and our parents disagreed, and finally we likely started doubting some of their thinking...

But times were good! Jobs were easy to find as you could quit today and have another tomorrow. When credit came calling, our parents said this was bad but we got a loan for that car anyways and drove it away without saving for even a day. Some countries were still warring, but our government seemed to have it under control and we were busy living it up. Slowly these good times grew fewer as debts seemed to overtake the income. Wages seemed to buy less, so we just worked longer hours to pay the bills. We spoiled our kids beyond reason because we could. We taught them the morals we'd been taught, but they were distracted by the latest spoils we bought them. And while we were distracted with working so much, we didn't notice that capitalism was somehow changing our democracy into something else....

I, like many others, joined the military in support of my countries stand against Russian domination. It was here that I got a peek into the dark side of human nature while being constantly surrounded by a bunch of gung-ho folks who wanted to put some of their daily training into practice. Stir in some alcohol and add some more confused gung-ho persons who spoke a little different and stand back....trouble was brewing! When I returned to civi-street, I had a new perspective that only other military folk seemed to understand. It took years to assimilate back into society to the point I could properly reflect on this perspective and accept the differences in a way to conclude myself wiser for the experience. The military opened my eyes to the real world that many ignore in their daily routines. I'd never gone overseas or to any conflict. Yet when watching the news, I now better understood how messed up some of these soldiers were getting who had, as those I'd often arrested had maybe been influenced from their travels. The blinders were off and I started reading more on psychology to better understand how we had been changed as I considered myself too intelligent for brain washing.

I've said before that I now sort evidence as if it were to be presented in a court of law. That is also a method of stepping back from something I've otherwise gotten too close to and hopefully seeing the bigger picture. It is also a way of turning off the patriotism that we learned early, shutting down the prejudices that others helped instill in all of us, and sticking to the facts that our emotions otherwise help us to ignore. Folks presenting the news will always try to grab your heart strings and sway you to their side. (And yes, in turn, everything I present has my opinion pasted all over it.) But I try to show the hidden side at least, as that is what most others don't wish you to see. It seems that it should be hard to hate a Muslim if you don't even know one...and is it fair to judge all on the action of a few? Yet we repeat many of these biased opinions simply because it was on our daily news.

Meanwhile, it seems many today are losing faith in our government, mainly due to the actions of our government. When we learn that they want to take our guns away, it is hard not to ask why! When they say all is well while passing further laws to revoke your human rights as a daily routine. And now our governments are openly siding Fascists when our parents fought so hard to stamp out their existence ....seems patriotism to such as this isn't really patriotic!

I know that I've sometimes hit folks below their patriotic belt and admit it is intentional, but only in a good way! We should all ask questions and demand proper answers. If we don't, our countries will become the same as those we read about daily. We need to know we can trust those in power to do the right thing, and not just accept those answers that we are pretty sure are just sugar- coated lies! Almost any public speech today is tested on a variety of people before presentation. They know how to spread the bull so it still taste like candy...so when alarm bells still go off in your head, it's likely because the lie is too hard to swallow and your choking on all the sugar!

And if all of us truly believed in today's governments as we once did, why are there prepper forums?

Well, I'm here now... Other than the heat, I can see the prepping opportunities are really readily available for our American friends. You can buy practically anything online and shipping is either free or a fraction of what we pay in Canada. In a good community with good neighbours and with a bit of know-how, I feel like I can continue building my preps where I left off in Canada and adjust to my new environment.