Posted on 08/29/2005 7:50:53 AM PDT by neverdem
When we first read the headline in last Thursday's Sun - "Feds taking aim at gun violence" - we thought that there must have been some mistake.
Gun violence? What gun violence? We have a very expensive national gun registry that was put into place to ensure that every firearm in Canada can be tracked. We have cumbersome regulations in place that make it more difficult for Canadians to buy guns. We have armies of bureaucrats shuffling paper to and fro to make sure that everything related to guns in this country is all very above-board and law-abiding.
So there can't possibly be any gun violence in Canada!
OK, we made our point. There is still lots of gun violence in Canada, and the gun registry hasn't done a single thing to stop it.
And it's not like we'd ever wish daytime street shootings on anyone, but surely the irony of the latest spate of gunplay to plague Toronto - where shootings have become almost a daily occurrence - is not lost on people. The gun registry was originally put in place by the Liberals to placate urban Ontario voters. And who is currently being terrorized by rampant gun violence? Torontonians.
There's a lesson here to be learned, but neither Toronto voters nor the Liberal party is going to learn it.
Edmonton cabinet minister Anne McLellan declared that "I'm very concerned about the whole question of gun violence and about the whole question of gun smuggling." Great. Although she immediately blunted the impact of those remarks by insisting that "we have no evidence that there are more guns being smuggled into the country than ever before."
Well, there's only one of two choices here, and neither one reflects terribly well on current Liberal crime policies. Either these guns are getting into the country through the United States or from other countries through our ports of entry and the federal government's customs agents are not able to prevent it, or these guns are, in fact, originating from here in Canada and the $2-billion boondoggle of a gun registry is - surprise, surprise! - not stopping criminal from using guns.
Back in late 1994, when then-justice minister Allan Rock first unveiled the gun-control program, he declared, "This tough new gun-control program will improve public safety and also send a strong message that the criminal misuse of guns will not be tolerated."
Eleven years later, the Liberals are suddenly worried about gun crime because Toronto has been blitzed by gun violence. In a more sane country, Toronto would realize that the gun registry has been exposed as an expensive waste of money and would punish the Liberals for lying to them by voting them out. And the Grits would shut down their useless registry and put the money into actual police officers fighting crime.
As we said, these lessons are all going to go unlearned.
Coming soon to a country you're in.
Canada's conservative voice is waking up (very cranky too)
I believe when it reaches full-steam it will be a conservative haven up there- most people I know up there have a very healthy attitude about things like this.
"Back in late 1994, when then-justice minister Allan Rock first unveiled the gun-control program, he declared, "This tough new gun-control program will improve public safety and also send a strong message that the criminal misuse of guns will not be tolerated."
Giant Flaw #1: a public registry only registers guns of non-criminals. It is a feel good measure designed to appease the liberal weenies that couldn't be trusted to use a sharpened pencil in self defense, but would seize the pencils of those that can.
This is a lesson both Great Britain and Australia are learning. The hard way. Similarly, our biggest cities, where guns are virutally forbidden, gun crime is at its highest. Where guns are "allowed," gun crime is low and lowering.
When the government trusts the people, the people will start trusting the government.
But for that it appears that most of the gun crime comes from guns they can't register, not ones they can.
Waking up? It's always been there. it's just ignored by the liberals in ottawa and the Liberal media.
In fact the "Conservative voice" is so loud in western provinces from manitoba and even BC ( a bastion of US draft dofgers) that there is a clear majority in every single province that feels separation is the only option left to them.
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Its about time the liberals were put in the witness chair and asked the hard questions. Every lib policy maker and every flunky media hack should be put in the spotlight and grilled about the failures of liberalism, and not allowed to slink away into the shadows.
It was never about the guns just the control.
The Canadian left reminds me of an aunt whose son could do no wrong according to her. If he swore, it was obviously the influence of his evil cousins, when he got caught looking at naughty magazines, they must have been bought by his evil cousins.
The police in West Palm Beach had a buy back program about a month ago. Much publicized. Photographs on the front page. Mostly old guys with vintage hunting rifles that hadn't been cleaned in 30 years.
Didn't see a single gang banger in any of the photos lining up to get rid of their Glocks and Mac 10's.
The evolution of gun control
1. Legislation
2. Registration
3. Confiscation
4. Extermination
Criminals ignoring the beancounters and doing what they want, with what they want, when they want ? The hell ya say......eh ?:o)
All that trouble , money and time to write a law that criminals don't respect........hmmmm. What could be the problem ? Criminals have always followed the law before errr......
How is a gun LAW going to stop a criminal?
The only people affected are the LAW-ABIDING people who only use guns to SHOOT BACK.
One good reason to buy up all the old dewats/demills for 20 dollars a piece from SGN (shotgun news)......then sell em to the idiots for clear profit from the buy backs beancounters.....:o)
My other favorite thang to do is get a couple of friends and all wear a common color windbreaker and or T-Shirt, get a high and tight haircut and then cruise the crowd's and lines etc with video & digital cameras and follow a few to their cars etc etc .....paranoia panic is funny.
Liberals do not care how much it costs or how ineffective the program is as long as it provides cushy jobs for other Liberals.
One kind of gun law reduces crime--a law that allows law abiding people to pack heat and shoot back. The other gun laws all promote crime.
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