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System Failed Danny ... Peter Worthington on Canadian Gun Laws
Toronto Sun ^ | December 7, 2005 | Peter Worthington

Posted on 12/07/2005 5:50:46 AM PST by NorthOf45

System failed Danny

Toronto Sun
By Peter Worthington
December 7, 2005

The front page of Monday's Sun showed the tearful funeral of Danny Fatulahzadeh-Rabti, an innocent man who was shot to death.

Charged with the murder is Jodie Wheatle -- who was arrested last month in Yorkdale mall for allegedly carrying a loaded .45 calibre pistol, a bullet up the spout. Two days later he was granted bail.

How in hell does a guy toting a loaded .45 get bail?

Is this how Mayor David Miller and his tame Police Chief Bill Blair fight gun crimes?

Literally, everyone in authority says those charged with gun crimes should get mandatory sentences for carrying a gun, and that these sentences shouldn't be plea bargained away.

If you ask me, I'd argue that the family of Danny would be justified in suing over the release of Jodie Wheatle, if indeed he pulled the trigger.

If in fact he did then, had Wheatle not been granted bail, Fatulahzadeh-Rabti, age 25, might still be alive and able to help run the family's car dealer business.

Instead, he becomes Toronto's 74th homicide this year -- and 50th gun-murder victim.

Among other things, anyone using a gun in a crime should get a mandatory sentence, and no bail. Carrying a loaded gun, implies an intention to use it. Is that so hard to understand?

So why is it not done?

Instead, the damnfool government have sent a notice to gun owners that it intends to confiscate certain handguns that it previously vowed it had no intention of seizing when it asked owners to register such guns.

This is what gun-owners have warned against for years, and for which they were branded paranoid.

The guns that now must be surrendered are .25 and .32-calibre handguns, or those under 105 mm long (about four inches).

Some owners who felt they were "grandfathered" by having these guns registered, now find the law has changed and now must surrender a gun they purchased in good conscience -- or the police will visit them and take the gun.

Presumably, government thinking is that short-barreled handguns are easy for criminals to conceal, silly asses. Mostly they are used for target practice.

Whoever heard of guys who shoot people using a Saturday Night Special or a ladies' hand gun? The dudes on the street prefer .45s, or 9-mm guns with a kick -- like the stolen .45 Jodie Wheatle was charged with carrying last month.

Very few, if any, of the guns used for crime or violence in Toronto are registered. Nor are they usually small calibre handguns of the type that the government wants confiscated from legitimate owners -- with no more amnesties.

Hmm. There've been 11 amnesties so far to turn in weapons. The government boasts that something like 95% of all guns in Canada are now registered. That's supposedly 7 million firearms.

Compare that with 30 years ago, when the government acknowledged there were an estimated 20 million guns in Canada. Whatever happened between now and then to the other 13 million firearms?

As for handguns, they've been registered in Canada since 1934, and the ratio of crimes with these guns has remained relatively constant -- until the surge of gun violence that has torn Toronto apart.

There is a gun culture rampant in parts of our city.

Until this is recognized and isolated, gun killings will continue.

Frankly, who much cares if drug dealers kill one another. It's when innocent, law-abiding citizens get shot that one feels outrage -- victims like Danny, from an Iranian family that was making a good life here and deserved better.


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; gunregistry; peterworthington; worthington

1 posted on 12/07/2005 5:50:47 AM PST by NorthOf45
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To: Clive; GMMAC; fanfan; Ryle; Alexander Rubin; timsbella

Peter Worthington Ping


2 posted on 12/07/2005 5:51:31 AM PST by NorthOf45
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To: NorthOf45
carrying a loaded .45 calibre pistol, a bullet up the spout

A bullet up the spout?

3 posted on 12/07/2005 5:56:55 AM PST by neodad (My ex-wife is stuck on stupid.)
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To: neodad

One in the oven?


4 posted on 12/07/2005 6:13:37 AM PST by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: neodad

That "bullet up the spout" comment caught my attention to--had a good chuckle over it!


5 posted on 12/07/2005 6:22:11 AM PST by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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To: basil

Condition 3 ?


6 posted on 12/07/2005 6:23:29 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: NorthOf45
Instead, he becomes Toronto's 74th homicide this year -- and 50th gun-murder victim.

What about the other 24? I am sure if you ban whatever they used it will make the crime rate go down.

Carrying a loaded gun, implies an intention to use it.

Does carrying a knife mean you intend to use it ?

7 posted on 12/07/2005 6:29:54 AM PST by sausageseller (Look out for the jackbooted spelling police. There! Everywhere!(revised cause the "man" accosted me!)
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To: neodad
A bullet up the spout?

Maybe he was talking about a spider.

Hey, at least he's writing against the idiots in the Canadian govt.

8 posted on 12/07/2005 6:30:33 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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To: King Prout; facedown

ping


9 posted on 12/07/2005 6:37:43 AM PST by Alice au Wonderland (Viper-Tongued Sister of the King, Mother Superior, Purveyor of Prurience, Caustic Court Castigator)
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To: NorthOf45
There is a gun culture rampant in parts of our city.

Seems to me that they have a criminal culture rampant.

10 posted on 12/07/2005 6:44:37 AM PST by Wake75
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To: NorthOf45; Alice au Wonderland
How in hell does a guy toting a loaded .45 get bail?

He paid 10% to a bondsman?

11 posted on 12/07/2005 7:07:02 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: NorthOf45
For all Worthington's other virtues, his expressed view is not unlike all the rest of the spin coming from Canada's msm on this particular issue.

None have the guts or perception or willingness to place the public good ahead of their personal agendas and loudly proclaim:
Unelected, unaccountable Liberal hacks masquerading as Judges and arrogantly refusing to enforce laws already on the books are the ultimate root cause!!!
12 posted on 12/07/2005 7:45:36 AM PST by GMMAC (paraphrasing Parrish: "damned Liberals, I hate those bastards!")
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To: NorthOf45

"Some owners who felt they were "grandfathered" by having these guns registered, now find the law has changed and now must surrender a gun they purchased in good conscience -- or the police will visit them and take the gun."


That's what i got out of it.
Of course, the other "13 million" unregistered guns, is an open concept for perusal..


13 posted on 12/07/2005 7:54:27 AM PST by lrb111 (Minutemen - Doing jobs the White House won't do.)
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To: GMMAC

True


14 posted on 12/07/2005 8:11:13 AM PST by NorthOf45
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To: facedown
Canada does not have a bail bondsman system.

Anyone who posts bail must do so with his own money or his own property as security (or ask a relative or a friend put up the security).

OTOH, the bail is usually set much lower than it would be set in the US for similar crimes.

15 posted on 12/07/2005 8:44:59 AM PST by Clive
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