So much for gun control!
September 13, 2006 · By George Freeman
Surprise, surprise, Canada’s strident gun control laws don’t save us from those intent on killing. But in the face of such horrific tragedy, many will likely go shrill calling for more, as though it will actually accomplish one damn bit of good.
way to reducing it. The Blogging Tories of course will not accept this fact and the usual whining has begun at their website. Watch for a it to cavalcade with the usual rants against Michael Moore, Layton, Gun control, gun registry, white bread… So much for gun control! Mr. Layton, please don’t make this guy into some kind of victim… Shootings In Montreal Of course the reality is that the urban centres like Montreal and Toronto carry votes and voice on this issue and will respond with calls for keeping the gun
I’m one of those “shrill people”. As Gilles Duceppes said, car accidents happpen all the time.. yet we dont demand we stop people from getting ddriver licenses because of their “inability” stop all car accidents.
Gun control laws and the national gun registry wont guarantee ends to acts like Dawson College.. but it sure does reduce the chances of it.
If the Tories are smart, they will immediately shelve their attempt to kill the gun registry… because doing so will go over like a lead balloon in this country… not to mention its morally reprehensible.
Lyndon: “the same people who will not help address the real issues that lead to such criminal acts, mainly poverty, social inclusion, education and immigrant integration.”
How do you know this? Maybe they do through church or charity, not ready to bestow government as the friendly face that can cure all social ills.
And as far as real issues go here, this guy made a choice to go on a killing rampage. It’s pretty hard to explain away killing innocent students as, well, he was hungry or people were mean to him, which might have been the case, but there are better ways of coping, to say the least.
Scott: I don’t see any reason to believe that the national gun registry reduces the chances of Dawson College, especially because they don’t provide much of an inhibition to obtaining a gun and wilfully shooting it at someone.
What’s morally reprehensible is the difficulty idealists have in living in the real world, a world where governments have finite resources, can’t be all things to all people, and have to invest in initiatives that will most effectively and efficiently bring about the ends desired. The long gun registry is a big waste of money and prevents very little crime, if any. To not scrap it would be morally reprehensible!
Certain guns should be illegal to own and buy because clearly they don’t serve any purpose but to kill large numbers of people. But I don’t see the purpose of a gun registry or even possession licences. Neither can offer law enforcement very useful information since the guys police go after and might use a gun on them, likely won’t register their guns to begin with, let alone have a possession licence.
Scott, your logic is so wacko that you scare me. No amount of law or legislation will stop criminals from such acts – even if his guns were registered.
The regustry was another Chretien ploy to funnel monies to his friends. It costs $1 to register each bovin in this country. Based on this it should have cost $22M to register all the rifles in this country. I could have done if from my home office for Justice Canada for $25M and retired after that project was over. After $2B+ no sound database is in place.
Enough of the bleeding heart crap. Grow up.
What actually stopped the psychopath from committing this crime, 100 pages of laws on paper? Or a cop on the ground armed with a firearm. We should be putting more money into police and sentencing criminals.
Canada has had a firearms culture since its very beginning. Many rural firearms owners use their firearms for hunting, and defence against dangerous animals as well as sport shooting. Theyre are roughly as many firearms per person in canada as there are in the United States.