Just another day at the range with the war wagon

[JCL]

Originally Posted by GOFAST GUY

In Alberta, we believe in the second ammendment.

The US Second Amendment?

Not trying to start a debate about the Magna Carta and inalienable rights vs the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, just a little surprised that Alberta was seceding yet again.

Note to MD: It isn't the western provinces, it is more Alberta and the North. By the time you get as far west as BC we are pretty much of the same opinion as Toronto on the matter, as much as it pains me to say that.

[phil47]

Originally Posted by JCL

Note to MD: It isn't the western provinces, it is more Alberta and the North. By the time you get as far west as BC we are pretty much of the same opinion as Toronto on the matter, as much as it pains me to say that.

It isn't all Albertans either...that stereotype is getting REAL old...

[JCL]

Originally Posted by phil47

It isn't all Albertans either...that stereotype is getting REAL old...

True story: I moved to Edmonton as a new branch manager from BC (transfer with the same company). Day one, I went out together with a veteran sales rep to meet some customers. Got into his Impala, looked for a place to plug in the seat belt. No visible connector. Dug around a bit. He asked me what I was doing, and I told him I was planning to use the seatbelt. He wasn't using his. He gave me a lecture on how no company policy or government was going to tell him to wear a seatbelt, where to smoke, or to register his guns. I wondered how we got on to firearms from seatbelts, but he was quoting the phrase about prying his cold dead fingers off them, and he was crossing in between guns, seatbelts, no-smoking areas, and then he got to the NEP. It was a classic rant. I guess I never forgot it.

I lived in Alberta twice, three years each time. Great place, I still have lots of friends in GP, Edmonton, Fort Mac, and Calgary. I have a daughter living in Calgary. I visit regularly. I agree that it isn't all of Alberta, but it seems to me there is still some of the Texas North philosophy there.

Apologies for the generalization. So I gather you don't have quite that many guns in the back of your X5?

[phil47]

Originally Posted by JCL

True story: I moved to Edmonton as a new branch manager from BC (transfer with the same company). Day one, I went out together with a veteran sales rep to meet some customers. Got into his Impala, looked for a place to plug in the seat belt. No visible connector. Dug around a bit. He asked me what I was doing, and I told him I was planning to use the seatbelt. He wasn't using his. He gave me a lecture on how no company policy or government was going to tell him to wear a seatbelt, where to smoke, or to register his guns. I wondered how we got on to firearms from seatbelts, but he was quoting the phrase about prying his cold dead fingers off them, and he was crossing in between guns, seatbelts, no-smoking areas, and then he got to the NEP. It was a classic rant. I guess I never forgot it.

I lived in Alberta twice, three years each time. Great place, I still have lots of friends in GP, Edmonton, Fort Mac, and Calgary. I have a daughter living in Calgary. I visit regularly. I agree that it isn't all of Alberta, but it seems to me there is still some of the Texas North philosophy there.

Apologies for the generalization. So I gather you don't have quite that many guns in the back of your X5?

Absolutely no offence taken. I agree that there is a "Texas North" philosophy around here...fiercely independant and hard-working bunch...and I actually take some pride in that. However, even living here for 45 years (I'm an exec with a large E&P company) I have yet to run into anybody who discusses their gun ownership. Just not the folks I hang with.

fyi...back of my X5 is typically filled with hockey equipment or musical instruments for the kids!!

[wallyx5]

I wish I could have been with you. That picture is inspiring I will have to go today! Nothing like the smell of gun powder.

[X5Sport]

That does it, I'm going to become a US Citizen!! I want to come and play sooooooooooooooooooooo bad!!

PC be damned!!

Trouble is you guys drive on the wrong side, and all my BMWs are diesels.