It's a joke but I'm not sure how funny it is
I had a couple of headlines and barely two sips of coffee into me this morning and I'm thinking, don't we already have fairly stringent handgun laws in this country? Of course we do. Have had for damn near 70 years and the current laws look pretty much the same as these new proposals. So why the headlines?
Kateland feels safer already knowing Paul Martin is a student of history.
Bob at Let It Bleed fleshes out just how well this is playing out in the media.
But, apparently the best news is yet to come.LIBERALS TO BAN MURDER
Martin's sweeping handgun ban is a joke, but I'm not sure how funny they're finding it in the Jane Finch area.
Privately, one Liberal insider admitted the move is aimed at creating a wedge issue that will flush out the Conservatives on the issue of gun control.
"It absolutely is a wedge issue. There's no other way to describe it," the insider said.
"It's about making a very clear delineation between what they (the Conservatives) stand for and what we do. . . . We believe in gun control and they clearly don't."
Kateland feels safer already knowing Paul Martin is a student of history.
Bob at Let It Bleed fleshes out just how well this is playing out in the media.
But, apparently the best news is yet to come.LIBERALS TO BAN MURDER
"Unlike the Conservatives, the Liberal party takes murder seriously, which is why we are proposing this ban. Criminals and potential murderers need to know that murder is unacceptable in Canada and this ban on murder will be an emphatic message to Canadians: don't commit murder."
While Martin acknowledged that technically murder is already illegal in Canada he pointed out that it was the message that was important.
Martin's sweeping handgun ban is a joke, but I'm not sure how funny they're finding it in the Jane Finch area.
posted by glenda at 9:46 AM
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It's nothing more than political spin, designed to buy Toronto votes.
Are we supposed to believe that gun crimes are committed with legally-obtained guns? For crying out loud..
That said, I fault Stephen Harper equally for his reaction to the Martin statement. He claims that the Liberals have done nothing to stop the escalating gun violence: Crime is not a government responsibility; it's a personal responsibility. The sooner we stop off-loading all of the ills of the world onto our government, the sooner we can get on with the business at hand.
Given that less than 15% of hand guns used in violent crimes were ever registered even the stolen handgun premise doesn't hold.
I'm thinking even the people of Toronto understand what this was all about.
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