Posted on 12/30/2005 8:47:14 PM PST by neverdem
(CNSNews.com) - A gun rights group Thursday blasted Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin for accusing the U.S. of "exporting violence."
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said Martin is treating the United States like a scapegoat for his failed leadership and for crimes committed by Canadian citizens.
"On the same day that Prime Minister Martin was blaming the United States for his country's crime problem," said CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron, "CNN reported on a border arrest of two Canadian residents who were detained for trying to re-enter the country with handguns and ammunition concealed on their bodies.
"Ali Dirie and Yasin Mohamed are not Irish Americans from Boston, but residents of Toronto, apparently trying to import guns illegally," Waldron said in a press release. He warned that Martin's plan to ban guns will only succeed in driving up demand for weapons on the black market.
"And now that Mr. Martin has announced his plan to ban handguns in Canada, black market gun running is liable to take off just the same as illegal export of Canadian liquor into the United States during Prohibition, and with just as much success for the criminal underground in both countries," Waldron said.
Waldron said not only have Canadian handgun sales already gone up ahead of the gun ban according to wire reports, but law-abiding citizens, not criminals, will suffer as a result.
"What Martin and other Liberals in Canada don't seem to grasp, or maybe they just don't care, is that a ban is only going to take guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. Criminals will still get guns, and Martin will continue blaming the United States for his administration's monumental failure to address a growing crime problem," Waldron said.
"Isn't it curious that crime has been climbing in Canada at the same time the Liberal government under Martin and his predecessor has been squandering billions of dollars on the gun registration fiasco," said Waldron.
"Martin and his Liberal cronies may not want to admit it, but gun rights activists down here in the states predicted this would happen from the outset. Canadian gun owners forecast the same thing, insisting that registering their guns would not prevent violent crime," Waldron said.
"Turns out gun owners were right, and all Martin can think of is taking further sanctions against his law-abiding citizens while doing nothing to actually reduce crime," added Waldron. "It's all flash, and no substance.
"The Prime Minister has no real solution to crime, so he blames honest gun owners and his good neighbor to the south for his government's failures," Waldron concluded.
The Liberals will say anything to win, but won't punish criminals. Maybe he should have Karla Homolka campaign with
him. Heck, Paul Bernardo might get a furlough to appear at a Martin campaign rally.
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Stopping crime is not Martin's priority. His real goal is to disarm the population. His justification to get the guns is the usual lie that disarming the good guys will lower crime. Shame on the Canadian people for not questioning, rejecting, and revolting against the lie and the liar. I once gave them more credit. Canada will have only the crime rate the people tolerate, it's that simple. They vote. They CAN fix it.
this most recent "crime" blamed on the us is nothing more than some immigrant jamaicans fighting over drugs and turf, they are conducting business as if they were at home. 75 % of their gun crime is by these people, a product of the open door immigration policy that they use to buy votes.
i maintain that they should license all knives as more people are killed with knives than guns. YUP! what a make work project, serialize all knives & fingerprint all owners. should be able to do it all on a 2 billion budget.
Ali Dirie and Yasin Mohamed
There's the problem right there.
All kidding aside, Canada needs to grow up and take responsibility for what goes on within its borders. Blaming the US for everything is like a two year-old blaming the boogie monster.
CNNs article mentions John Thomspon, a security analyst at Torontos Mackenzie Insitute near the end who says the number of guns smuggled from the United States is a problem, but Canada has a gang problemnot a gun problemand Canada should stop pointing the finger at the United States.
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