Oleg,
I was talking about gun control in Canada with a customer yesterday and he related a story to me...
Seems he was living in the Ukraine when the Nazis invaded. The Ukraine goverment had imposed a mandatory registration a couple of years earlier, presumably to help the gov't prepare to organize a peasant army. When the Nazis rolled in to town, they went to the magistrates office and found out who owned guns. They then went around the town and searched every house.
There was this elderly gentleman who had an old gun that was not registered and they gathered he and all of his family that lived there, which was 3 generations of women & children (the men were off fighting in the Red Army) and brought them to the town square. The rest of the town was ordered to attend as well.
They lined up all 20 or so family members and machine-gunned them in front of the townsfolk.
- As the elderly gentleman explained this, the next part still brought a tear to his tired eyes...
After the family was mowed down, a Stormtooper went over to the corpse of a small boy, grabbed a leg, stepped on the other and ripped the tiny body in half. - It was his cousin and playmate...3 years old...
Shortly thereafter, his family managed to immigrate to Canada. He refuses to register his guns and says that he will never give them up.
I deeply respect his sentiments and his reasons for feeling this strongly...
