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Ee Ls bat 10 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, June 16, 1992 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" Replacement and New Construction Windows e Expert Custom Installation or Cash and Carry e 15 Years Experience Call us for a Free Estimate or visit our Showroom 985-4910 193 NORTH STREET PORT PERRY, ONT. The Regional Municipality of Durham NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Take notice that the Regional Planning Committee will consider at the meeting to be held on: Tuesday, June 30, 1992 at 10 am PLANNING DEPARTMENT BOARDROOM 1615 Dundas St. E. ,Whitby 4th Floor, Lang Tower, West Building, Whitby Mall AN APPLICATION TO AMEND THE DURHAM REGIONAL OFFICIAL PLAN The amendment proposes to extend the Port Perry Urban Area in order to allow the creation of one additional residential lot at the site indicated on the map below. DURHAM Lake Scugog Subsequently, the Regional Council will consider recommendation of the Planning Committee at a meeting to be held on: Wednesday, July 8, 1992 at 10 am COUNCIL CHAMBERS Regional Headquarters Building 605 Rossland Road East, Whitby The report related to the proposed amendment is available for inspection in the offices of the Planning Department, 1615 Dundas St. E., 4th floor, Lang Tower, West Building, Whitby Mall, Whitby, or by calling Grant McGregor, Planning Department, (416) 728-7731 (Whitby) / 686-1651 (Toronto). Requests to make a presentation before the Planning Committee concerning the proposed amendment must be forwarded to Dr. M Michael, M.C.I.P., Commissioner of Planning, 1615 Dundas St. E., 4th floor, Lang Tower, West Building, Whitby Mall, Whitby, Ontario , LIN 6A3, and should be received by the Friday preceding the meeting. Request to make a presentation before the Regional Council concerning the proposed amendment must be torwarded to the Regional Clerk, Heglonal Headquarters Building, 605 Rossland Road East, Whitby, Ontario, L1N 6A3, and should be received 48 hours prior to the Regional Council Meeting. FILE NO.: OPA 89-126 Gary Herrema C.W. Lundy, AM.C.T. Regional Chair Regional Clerk Letters to the editor Gun bill not in spirit of freedom To the Editor:' (This letter is in response to a request by Ross Stevenson M.P. for comments on our proposed gun legislation. A copy has been forwarded to Mr. Stevenson.) Thank you very much for the copy of the proposed firearms legislation and the information from the N.S.S.F. After reading a copy of Bill C-17 and a Justice Communique dated March 31, 1992, I have the following com- ments to which I fondly hope you, as my elected representa- tive, will pay some heed: I am an avid shooter, and have been for about three- quarters of my life. I am 42. 1 also collect guns and keep them in a safe built for this purpose, with ammunition in a separate securely locked cabinet. I par- ticipate in handgun, shotgun and rifle sports of various disci- plines and also deer hunt. The problems I have with the pro- posed regulations lie in three areas: 1. Magazine Restriction This serves no good purpose and only inconveniences a shooter. The proposed method of limited capacity alone is the worst imaginable. It cannot be done by most people; it will, in most cases render the magazine non-functional (in the case of handguns); it will not limit crime in any way at all as maga- zines take a mere two to three seconds at the most to change; it places a burden on all gun owners quite undeservedly; in many cases it will cause the magazine to malfunction and render it difficult, if not impos- sible to clean (which, if you shoot very much, has to be done routinely), and last, it achieves virtually nothing. 2. Creation of yet another class of so-called "bad guns"! The idea of making firearms that were previously selective fire but have been properly con- verted to semi-automatic only "prohibited weapons" is again a form of punishment, and, in the long run, a "gun grab". Histori- cally, these guns have present- ed a non-problem crime wise just as fully automatic guns have. The bad guys still prefer above all else the "hot" hand- gun, or better still, the cut- down shotgun or .22 rifle. Check out statistics: The large, heavy guns are too complicated and expensive for your typical hold-up man (not to mention too bulky). To decide that these guns are now "too dangerous" for the approved public just doesn't wash. I believe that by this regula- tion alone, a substantial black market will be created that will serve none of us well. That alone worries me more than anything else because now not only the government but the law abiding gun fellowship lose control of gun circulation, and that's bad for everyone. It has always been my feeling that the gun hobby has been very well internally regulated and con- trolled since we are generally a very serious and responsible group. Again, the statistics bear me out. Look at the mini- scule insurance premiums that gun clubs pay to protect their members! 3. Safe Storage and Home Inspection Safe and secure storage should be a major concern for any gun owner. However, the wording of this bill on the sub- Ject 1s just too open to individu- al interpretation; thus allowing arbitrary and possibly unfair judgments to be made by self serving inspectors. Even $100,000 safes can be "easily broken" into by the right per- sonnel, as I'm sure you're aware. This phrasing alone leaves every gun owner in Can- ada potentially liable to crimi- nal prosecution: All six million of us! The concept of home in- spection I find very repugnant and frightening. It smacks of Naziism. Not to mention how the government is going to bud- get for six million home storage inspections! Remember that laws have to be applied equita- bly in a just society, so you can- not inspect, say, one in a hun- BUS: 985-7351 FAX: 985-0870 RES: 985-8163 GEOFF CARTWRIGHT Sales Representative * Service TWIT COUNTRY LANE BANKGR DO AESIOENTIAL REAL FSTATE 5 High Street, Port Perry, Ontario L9L 1H8 An Independently Owned and Operated Mamber Broder of Coldwed Bander Ahan of Carada, Iv. @ * Results * Reliability » REALTY LTD. Women Helping Women Scugog & | Rape Crisis Centre *» Confidentiality **Accompaniment ** Non-Judgemental *+ Referrals ** Public Education ** Survivor Groups ** Face to Face 24 Hour Crisis Line 985-8850 or Fax: 985-0852 Support Counselling 579-8006 P.O. Box 1226, Port Perry, Ontario L9L 1B7 dred or a dozen, but ALL. Until this law is made to be in line with our Charter of Rights, I cannot support this unjusti- fied and unfair law. Truthfully, statistically, we do not have a gun problem of any kind in Canada. This C-17 will achieve nothing except to create a lot of very angry gun owners who re- alize that they have been perse- cuted under the guise of "a saf- er society" objective. All that is needed are harsher penalties for the criminal misuse of fire- arms and the judicial will to ap- ply those penalties. Make the guilty pay, not the law abiding gun owner. This law violates our Charter. In closing, allow me to quote from Junius. This appears in the Globe and Mail: "The sub- ject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise not submit to arbitrary measures". C-17 is truly an ar- bitrary measure. One other quote is in order, the author of which I cannot recall: "A patriot is a man who is always ready to defend his country, even from his own government." Please reconsider your sup- port for this bill. It is not in the spirit of freedom. Yours, Patrick Fox R.R. #1, Nestleton Corporate Challenge successful To the Editor: I would like to personally thank you for your press cover- age and support of the 1992 Oshawa Chamber of Commerce Corporate Challenge. Our original challenge to the media was to "install the excite- ment necessary to make this event the biggest, most involved corporate and community ex- travaganza ever organized" - and you more than met that challenge. Despite the weather (hall, rain, wind, and a 20 degree tem- perature drop), the day was a tremendous success with over 900 men and women participat- ing in the games and 5.6 tons of food being raised for Simcoe Hall Settlement House. With teams already signing up for the next Corporate Chal- lenge on May 29, 1993, I know that this is one annual commu- nity event that is only going to get bigger and better. 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