Liberal Plan: Blame the Americans for Guns
So. even though George W. Bush and the Congress have protected the gun manufacturers from lawsuits, our government still plans to try to sue them in US courts. HA HA HA. Which stupid lawyer thought this one up? I'm thinking it's a lobbyist for a private firm...
Even sillier is the request than the Americans should stop the flow of illegal weapons into Canada. Since most of these weapons are perfectly legal in the USA (and even constitutionally protected), why should Washington care? Just because Toronto is becoming the crime capital of the continent?
I think Washington's response should be "You stop the flow of drugs into the US and we might consider thinking about guns. But probably not."
I think that Stephen Harper and the Conservatives should use this issue during the election to put Paul Martin on the spot regarding both border control AND the gun registry... I can imagine the debate now:
SH: Isn't the rising crime rate evidence that your government has failed to make Canadian's safer? Isn't it evidence that your government doesn't care about guarding our borders and controlling what comes into our country?
PM: The increase in gun crime in Canada is the fault of the American gun manufacturers and the failure of the United States to keep guns out of Canada.
SH: So are you saying it is NOT the responsibility of the Government of Canada to protect Canadians from illegal weapons? Wasn't the Gun Registry supposed to protect us from guns - oh wait, criminals don't register smuggled weapons... My government would protect Canadians by increasing penalties for gun crimes and improving border security. And we would pay for it by ending the gun registry which only penalizes law abiding citizens.
How sweet it could be.
Even sillier is the request than the Americans should stop the flow of illegal weapons into Canada. Since most of these weapons are perfectly legal in the USA (and even constitutionally protected), why should Washington care? Just because Toronto is becoming the crime capital of the continent?
I think Washington's response should be "You stop the flow of drugs into the US and we might consider thinking about guns. But probably not."
I think that Stephen Harper and the Conservatives should use this issue during the election to put Paul Martin on the spot regarding both border control AND the gun registry... I can imagine the debate now:
SH: Isn't the rising crime rate evidence that your government has failed to make Canadian's safer? Isn't it evidence that your government doesn't care about guarding our borders and controlling what comes into our country?
PM: The increase in gun crime in Canada is the fault of the American gun manufacturers and the failure of the United States to keep guns out of Canada.
SH: So are you saying it is NOT the responsibility of the Government of Canada to protect Canadians from illegal weapons? Wasn't the Gun Registry supposed to protect us from guns - oh wait, criminals don't register smuggled weapons... My government would protect Canadians by increasing penalties for gun crimes and improving border security. And we would pay for it by ending the gun registry which only penalizes law abiding citizens.
How sweet it could be.
posted by Technical Bard | 23:49
1 Comments:
You are so right - banning legal guns will do nothing except criminalize more people who were never criminals in the first place. The liberals, bless there pansy hearts, don't seem to understand that the only way to go get gun toting maniacs is to employ your own gun toting maniacs and GO GET THEM!! The people that are illegally using these firearms will continue to do so, banned or not. We already have 20-30 laws on the books about handguns, why don't we enforce those instead of creating new ones?
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