The Toronto Star has been 'TOLD' Today
Police Chief Julian Fantino says Prime Minister Paul Martin should tighten laws for violent crimes because "gun-crazed gangsters" are putting the public at risk. We asked for your view. Here's what you had to say:
Recent events have shown that Fantino is correct that the justice system is terribly flawed. Criminals need to be treated as such and dealt with accordingly. The federal firearms registry is an expensive joke that hasn't worked since it's inception.
Tim Healey, Tillsonburg, Dec. 30
I would have to agree with Police Chief Julian Fantino. However, I have no faith that the federal Liberals will act on Fantino's suggestion, as they clearly prefer throwing money into the black hole otherwise known as the gun registry.
Dave Hopkins, Toronto, Dec. 30
Julian Fantino is a good man who understands that criminals are threatening the rule of law and due process in this country. The Star's anti-police obsession is tearing apart the social fabric of the city. All your pious hand-wringing over supposed injustices notwithstanding, your real intent is to sell newspapers. Now that parts of the city are awash in gun violence and shots are fired with reckless abandon, sometimes where children play, I would like to ask the Star and John Honderich a question: In your support of anarchy and social disruption, in the goal of increasing circulation, is it worth it to destroy the safety and security of the city? Because, very clearly, that's what you have done.
Alistair Thomson, Oshawa, Dec. 30
(There are several other letters that hit the nail right on the head. Plus, a couple from people that really don't have a clue, and think lack of enforcement by the police is the problem. The 'Trudeau' Star has always been a hard left wing newspaper that rarely, if ever,  looks at both sides of the problem. The last letter above from Mr. Thomson,  puts everything into perspective. Will the editorial policies of the Star change? I doubt it. Perhaps now it should take a good look at itself. Unfortunately, a 'mirrored' reflection only says 'ratS' !)
The Year in Review: The Star, credits ALL of this to Toronto!
Huh!!! As if 'they' have all the idiots!
Un-Justified: During the mega SARS concert in Downsview, headlined by the Rolling Stones, impatient fans throw garbage and bottles at Justin Timberlake. (I wonder how many of those bottle throwing Cretins can brag that 'they' had sex with Britney Spears?)
No Hard Feelings, Eh? Four thugs who break into a Newcastle man's house, beat him with baseball bats, apologize after realizing they've assaulted the wrong guy.
Tell It To The Police Complaints Commission. They'll Get Back To You In, Oh, Five To Ten: A Toronto man charged with conspiring to import 7,500 kilos of hashish into Canada, claims police stole $330,000 from his safety deposit box after his arrest.
Actually, He Died Of Embarrassment: A bandit who'd just robbed a Brampton cab slips on the snow and fatally shoots himself with his own gun.
I-D-I-O-T-S: The small hunting and fishing town of Lombardy, Ont., bans the word "gun" on a Grade 1 spelling test.
Rather Than Knife-Wielding, Mama-Stuffing Norman Bates From Psycho?: A news release from Conservative headquarters during the provincial election campaign accuses Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty of being an "evil reptilian kitten eater from another planet."(Nah.. Just another lying Liberal)
Cowabunger: A man is arrested for allegedly having sex with a pregnant Jersey cow at the Riverdale Farm and refusing to stop when employees demand he dismount.(Udderly disgraceful.. I wonder if this was a Mooving violation?)
Abbott hopeful for West
The Drayton Valley/Calmar area is in for some big changes for the new year if MLA Tony Abbott gets his way. With the recent upheaval in the federal government, Abbott hopes all Albertans will benefit from any changes that come about. “I hope that Paul Martin will keep his promises to the West and recognize Alberta for what we contribute. Especially on a federal level, the West can’t afford more alienation. One big change we need to see is the scrapping of the failing gun registry or at least have it turned over to a provincial level so we can scrap it,” said Abbott. (It's highly unlikely that the Feds will turn control of firearms over to the provinces because that would result in mish mash of  firearms systems across the country. In Ontario for example, Dalton McYuppy still thinks the insanity of a 'central firearms storage facility' is a good idea! Sort of a one stop shopping centre for anyone that wants their pick of the finest firearms. And, right where the government wants them when the big roundup begins. If Mr. McYuppy gets his way, crime in places like Toronto will explode. The criminal will know that there is no way their going to get shot, because if YOU pull a gun YOU shouldn't have, YOU are going to jail! Just like in the U.K. )
Glock prone to accidental firing???
DETROIT -- When police Officer Randall Smith was accidentally shot in the head by a fellow officer with a Glock semiautomatic pistol in 1995, he sued the gun maker, claiming the weapon was defectively designed and unnecessarily dangerous.  The gun has no manual safety to prevent it from firing if the trigger is accidentally pulled. In fact, the gun's safety features -- extremely effective in preventing discharges if the gun is dropped or hit -- automatically are turned off every time the trigger is depressed. ...Well Duh!!!..  Take the case of Jimmy Pope. The former Jackson, Miss., police officer was shot in the face when a Glock being cleaned in another room by his roommate and fellow officer, Von Ware, accidentally discharged. The bullet went through Pope's bedroom wall and the headboard of his bed before hitting him. Pope lost an eye in the 1993 shooting and suffered extensive facial injuries. (What kind of an idiot writes this stuff? For that matter, what kind of an idiot cleans a 'loaded' gun? Obviously someone that has very little safety training in the use of firearms, or someone just too stupid to possess one.. I don't know much about Glocks, I shoot a Para, but I have been on the line hundreds of times with glock shooters, and not once have 'I' seen a A.D. Of course, no one is sticking loaded guns down their pants, or pointing them where they shouldn't be pointed, and 'that's' what all this comes down to isn't it? That, and writers that should go out and get some firearms education, before putting their ignorance on paper!)
Wendy Cukier: Canada's gun registry does so work! So There...
Opposition critic Garry Breitkreuz's latest attack on Canada's gun-control law (Opinion, Dec. 21) recycles the same old arguments without regard for the facts. By most standards, Canada's gun-control program is a success: More than 2 million firearm owners (90 per cent) are now licensed and almost 7 million firearms (85 per cent) are registered. More than 9,000 people have been denied firearm licences under the new program.(This 'article' is so full of unmitigated 'bullshit', I find it absolutely astounding that she thinks the 'largely urban' population, is so stupid! The statement that firearms related death and injury exceeds 6.6 BILLION dollars each year is incredible! Remove the suicides which are now mainly using ropes, and take out the criminals shot by other criminals, you have, in all probability less that 100 deaths per year! Just how much do those people earn? This entire piece of unsubstantiated trash, is based on Government rhetoric point by government rhetoric point, as she tries to make this farce of a program meet the criteria for keeping it! I won't  even try to meet her arguments, because Garry Breitkreuz already has. I assume Garry will publish a counter argument with his usual 'real' facts, as opposed to 'government rhetoric' such as 90% compliance, which even the government knows is pure hogwash. There are more legally obtained, unregistered firearms in closets, attics, basements, garages, and hanging over fireplaces, than the government has in their 'registration' data swamp, and there always will be. Ms Cukier has a psychotic, unrealistic, hatred of firearms, even though they are responsible for far fewer deaths, suicides, and injuries than knives, blunt objects, and ropes. Controlling the guns of deer and duck hunters does not equate to 'crime control' no matter how you slice it. She just knows, that her funding and lifestyle will take a drastic plunge when the plug for this ineffective and wasteful farce is pulled, and this useless burden on Canadian taxpayers is finally re-directed into REAL crime control. Who do YOU think has the better take on this piece of social engineering and its effectiveness in controlling crime? Wendy Cukier, a Ryerson professor who has probably been in school since the day she started kindergarten and truly believes she works and functions in the real world, or Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino who said: "I'm devastated by the amount of gun-related violence that we're experiencing. It's a tremendous increase over years gone by. The difficulty, of course, is that we haven't come across any situation where the gun registry would have enabled us to either prevent or solve any of the crimes.".  I rest my case!)
Police Constable's 's killing sparks U.K. gun debate
LONDON, England (CNN) -- There are growing calls in the UK for all police to carry guns after an unarmed officer was shot dead. Norman Brennan, Director of Protect the Protectors pressure group, said: "Gun crime has become a cancer on society and we cannot allow it to be terminal. "Unarmed officers are sitting ducks when trying to tackle the increased gun crime in this country that is out of control. "Armed criminals have complete disrespect and my colleague has paid the ultimate price for trying to make society a safer place. This indiscriminate murder yet again begs the question, when do we fully arm the British police service?" (Well isn't 'this' amazing? I was under the impression that U.K. strict gun control would bring an abrupt end to gun violence, just as it has every place else in the world! Since the banning of 'legally' owned firearms, and the virtual elimination of the right to self defence from home invaders and other lowlifes, crime has actually 'increased'! Who would have thought!! Certainly not the politicians that are protected 24 hrs a day by armed security. What a sick society we are becoming, when defending your family becomes a crime. You would think that stomach windows would be very popular so all those with their heads up their asses could see where just where a defenceless society is headed!)
US air marshals demand resisted
A new order by the US Government for foreign airlines to use armed guards if intelligence suggests a terror threat has drawn a mixed response. The British airline pilots' union says it believes armed guards would make flying more dangerous - a view echoed by other pilots' groups. "This is a very bad idea, because it risks having catastrophic consequences for passengers and crew if there is an armed fight on board between a hijacker and an agent," Mogens Holgaard, head of the Danish Pilots Association, told the AFP news agency. The International Air Transport Association, which represents around 280 airlines, has reacted cautiously. "Our basic stance is that we do not want guns on board the aircraft, we certainly don't want the cockpit to be armed," IATA spokesman Anthony Concil told AFP news agency. (And what is Canada doing you ask? Well, Annie has a new desk! After all, it would be rather hypocritical and dangerous to put armed officers onboard an airliner wouldn't it. Everyone knows that pointing a firearms at a murdering hijacker only 'raises' the level of violence, and British or Canadian politicians could simply not have that. Why it's simply un Canadian to fight back, it would interfere with our liberal enforced 'culture of defencelessness' and the Non Catastrophic consequences of crashing into a nuclear facility is much more acceptable.. Gad what a f'n bunch of pinheads)
WILSON DIES!!
NEW YORK -- Actor Earl Hindman, best known for playing a neighbor whose face was forever obscured by a fence on the television show "Home Improvement," died of lung cancer Monday in Stamford, Conn. He was 61.(Well, 'Bye-de-ho' neighbour.. If governments spent as much money fighting scourages like lung and breast  cancer as they do on 'gun control' a lot more lives might be saved!)
Critics claim gun law a dud
'It's a billion-dollar waste...'
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By transferring the gun registry program from the Justice Department to the Solicitor General's office in April, and by passing legislation to streamline administration at the centre, the government will make the system more cost-effective, Austin said.  Myron Thompson, MP of the Wild Rose riding north of Calgary, doesn't see any potential for the program to improve.  "Criminals don't register guns, they'll have them anyway," said Thompson, whose constituents are amongst the most vocal against the registry.  "There shouldn't be any more spending on this and I'll do whatever necessary to right this wrong," he said.  Bruce Hutton, founder of the Law Abiding Unregistered Firearms Association, still won't have his guns registered or licensed.  "I'm not registering because I'm not a criminal, and if someone could explain to me how a life can be saved because of this registry, I'd do it, but I haven't found a reason why," Hutton said. "There's still millions of us who are unlicensed and I think the whole thing should be scrapped ... it's a useless waste of taxpayer money." Thompson, meanwhile, hopes the new Paul Martin government will extend his freeze on further spending to the program. ("Cost Effective" and 'Value for Money' are two vastly different things, and listening to this bureaucrat babbling on, trying desperately to keep his job, is also no mark of success. It does not pass the 7 criteria test that Martin himself said all programs must do. During the interview with the Prime Minister, Martin seems to think that Police think it's useful! That's how uninformed he actually is! "The Money has already been spent" is NO excuses to spend any more on this farce!)
Out wit’ da old, in with the new
Allo! Dis be Jean Chretien. As yer ex-Prime Minister, I be writin’ once more, again, to wish all you’se peoples up dere in Miss Cocoa-Party Sounds one last Mer’ Christmas. As you’se prob’ly know, I gived da Liberal Party de 10 year kick at da can in parliament, but now dey turned ‘round an’ kick my can right outta dere. But I not be bitter ‘bout dat. I not be askin’ for dat much, but I t’ink da least dey could do is name somethin’ or other in my honour. Like dey name Montreal Airport for Trudeau, and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan for Brian Mulroney. But I not be bitter about dat one either. Right now I’d love to inner-douche yer new Prime Minister, Paul Martin. I can tell you’se a few t’ings about dat guy. He say he be going to change da face of government, an’ by golly he be makin’ da good start already. He even bringed along his own Sheliah. But when Paul says he have completely severed his former business connections wit’ Canada Steamship Lines... Well, I don’ know about dat. Fact is, I t’ink sometimes, the way he talks, dat guy he fulla ships. (All rights fer shure)

Guess What 'Communist' China has that Canadians DON'T
PROPERTY RIGHTS, THATS WHAT!
China is changing its constitution to protect private property rights for the first time since the 1949 Communist revolution, a key step in making capitalism its economy's driving force.  A constitutional amendment endorsed by the Communist party went before legislators on Monday and their approval seemed certain. Party leaders who control the legislature say private property is essential to advancing economic reforms that have let millions of Chinese lift themselves out of poverty.(The Canadian Constitution does NOT give Canadian citizen the RIGHT to own property! If THAT isn't a reason to change the government in the next election I don't know what is! The Canadian Constitution ushered in by the Trudeau Liberals has made damn sure that they would have what it takes to take what you have. This is called freedom, just remember to do what your told.)
Effectiveness of Body Armor Questioned
CENTRAL LAKE, Mich. (AP)--Richard Davis invented a flexible, concealable type of body armor after taking a bullet while delivering a pizza. He vouched for his products by donning them and shooting himself with a gun--nearly 200 times over three decades.  Now, Second Chance is drawing fire of a different sort: allegations that its vests are defective.  The accusations raise questions about the reliability of body armor worn by thousands of police officers around the nation.  Second Chance took the Ultima, a 100-percent Zylon vest weighing around 2 1/2 to 3 pounds, to market in 1999. Later came the Ultimax, a blend of Zylon and other fibers. The two thin, light vests eventually accounted for 40 percent of the company's sales. But in July 2001, Toyobo notified armor manufacturers that Zylon fiber gradually degrades under prolonged exposure to high heat and humidity. Second Chance was not worried at first because Toyobo's initial estimate of the deterioration rate was 10 percent over a decade, while the vests are under warranty for five years, Banducci said. But starting in 2002, he said, the company began testing its used vests for durability. Some wore out more quickly than expected. Then came the June 13 shooting of Tony Zeppetella, 27, of the Oceanside, Calif., police department. Three bullets from a 9 mm pistol penetrated his vest--an upgraded Ultima--and two entered his body, Capt. David Heering said. (Oh! This ought to make a LOT of cops feel 'real' comfortable!)
While Slapping The Face of The Western Provinces, Martin rules out cancelling the $1-billion gun registry
On other issues, Mr. Martin said he does not favour arming customs officers at border points as is done in the U.S. and ruled out cancelling the $1-billion gun registry to pay for new social programs. "That money, unfortunately, has been spent," said Mr. Martin, who promised to reduce the bureaucratic costs of the gun registry, but noted law enforcement agencies favour the law.(I suppose the law enforcement agencies he speaks of are the ones getting direct funding from the gun registry, and of course the Ottawa Police Chief  who is also now crying 'poor'. The font line officers have NEVER supported it, only the politically motivated 'agencies and associations' do. The Liberals it would seem are going to continue robbing taxpayer 'Peter' to pay Liberal squandering 'Paul' . 80-90% of liberal constituent polled, say "NO MORE MONEY to THE GUN REGISTRY" that seem pretty clear! But I guess not clear enough to penetrate the thick skull of a liberal with a social engineering agenda! Thank Christ the Right will no longer be splitting the vote. And THAT means the end of a LOT of Liberal ridings. Basically, telling the western provinces to take their ELECTED senators and piss off, while still supporting the gun registry waste, will result in NO liberals elected west of Ontario, and only the 'urban' vote there! Martin better pull his head out of his ass and see the writing on the wall. Most Canadians are now aware he authored the "Red Book of Lies" in the first place, and as Dalton McYuppy in Ontario has shown, A Liberal will say ANYTHING to gain power!)
Police seize guns, drugs
"These are very good handguns. These are the kind of weapons you do not want to see on the street. They can cause a lot of damage, and they can certainly cause the death of a lot of individuals. Those are very good-quality handguns; they are not cheap to buy." Brown says one of the guns, a Ruger 9-mm, was stolen in 1999 from a gun shop in Washington state. "What happened during that event was a fellow drove his truck through the gun shop and 238 firearms were stolen. That individual has since been arrested and he's doing 140 months down south. However, 50 of those handguns were recovered in Canada, and now this would be approximately the 51st, so all the guns are not recovered from that theft. This is not only stolen from Washington state. It has been smuggled into this country illegally."(Well, I'm sure they can trace those guns back to the people that 'smuggled' them! After all, Canadian taxpayers have spent a BILLION DOLLARS and CLIMBING on a system that targets law abiding duck hunters and sports shooters to accomplish just that! )
Finger Pointing Liberals Say: Ontario will be $5.6-billion in red(And, 'red' IS the Liberal Colour)
TORONTO - Ontario is on track to be $5.6 billion in the hole this year, with Finance Minister Greg Sorbara blaming the economic policies of the previous provincial government. The province's finance minister also warned that Multibillion-dollar deficits may lie ahead because of the policies of the Mike Harris and Ernie Eves governments.(Liberals, being the liars that they are, hope that you have conveniently forgotten the fact the the Harris government inherited a 10 Billion Dollar deficit from the previous Liberal, and NDP governments. Not only did they reduce this deficit to 5.6 Billion in 8 years, they did it while creating the tax tax breaks 'they' promised. This is profoundly embarrassing to the Liberals. Now,  they are forced to 'prime' the public for the financial rape they are going to be inflicted with during the 'next' short period they will be traditionally squandering your tax dollars.)
Liberals won't revive Ontario spring bear hunt
TORONTO - A ban on spring bear hunting imposed by Ontario's former Tory government will not be lifted by its successor, Natural Resources Minister David Ramsay says. Several ministers in Premier Dalton McGuinty's cabinet had lobbied for the decision to be reversed when they sat on the Opposition benches. Since the ban came into effect, people in some northern communities have complained about a rising number of incidents involving bears. However, Ramsay said a committee that studied the issue found no link between the hunt and nuisance activity by bears.(Ramsey Campaigned on a promise to re-instate the hunt. So a liberal lied during an election! What else is new! The whole Liberal campaign is turning out to be a lie. And why not, Liberals have been lying for generations to get elected. Its what liberals do best! Even though there is no scientific evidence for continuing the ban, Dalton McYuppy feels it should not be reinstated. After all, Urban Ontario does not have a bear problem, Urban Ontario has a 'stupidity' problem. I'm sure the Liberals will be just as quick to comfort the family of the first child stalked, attacked, and killed, by a 'nuisance bear' while waiting for a rural area school bus. This has 'almost' happened in the past, and is sure to happen in the future. In the mean time! Keep shooting those nuisance bears. Nuisance or not, they 'still' taste a lot like beef!)

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It's Not The Beginning of The END...YET!?
FIREARMS AMNESTY PERIOD EXTENDED TO
 December 31, 2005
PC Number Date Chapter Bill Dept Attachments
2003-1992 2003-12-11 JUS
Criminal Code
Order Amending the ORDER DECLARING AN AMNESTY PERIOD by extending the amnesty to those who applied for a registration certificate on or before December 31, 2005.
Registration: SOR/2003-0414
Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of
the Minister of Justice, pursuant to subsection 117.14(1) of the
Criminal Code, hereby makes the annexed Order Amending the Order
Declaring an Amnesty Period.

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117.14 (1) The Governor in Council may, by order, declare for any purpose referred to in subsection (2) any period as an amnesty period with respect to any weapon, prohibited device, prohibited ammunition, explosive substance or component or part designed exclusively for use in the manufacture of or assembly into an automatic firearm.
Click here for more info on this 'Amnesty'It refers only to it's subsection 3.

(It would look as if this 'amnesty' is only give you more time to register your prohib or restricted firearm. Which means that Martin, while crying poor and cutting funding to other 'important' programs will keep dumping money into this worthless pit. Several M.P.'s have done mini polls in their ridings, and not one of them has found the people in their riding thinks more money should be wasted on this farce. As a matter of fact, most have come back 80-90% in favour of NO MORE SPENDING ON THE FIREARMS FARCE. I wonder what part of NO Martin does not understand)

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Gun registry mess goes back 70 years
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James Brown -- a former cop in the old Metro force, and later in Durham region -- returned home from another night shift on provincial security detail to find the calling card of a detective in the Toronto Police Service's guns-and-gangs task force stuck in his mail slot. What prompted Det.-Const. Soon Lum's impromptu visit was a "hit" from a computer in the the billion-dollar wasteland known as the National Gun Registry, which claimed the German Mauser K-98 bolt-action rifle Brown had legally registered under penalty of law was the same German Mauser K-98 that had recently been stolen during a house burglary in Fredericton, N.B. "But I have never been to Fredericton," said Brown. "And neither has the rifle." It was a quandary. (The really scary thing here, is that had James Brown 'not' been a retired police officer, the 'friendly call' would have been at 3 in the morning, starting with a battering ram taking out his front door. Then, several members of the swat team would have forced him and his family to the ground while they tore the house apart looking for illegal or "improperly stored" firearms and ammunition. Had any been found, they would have been immediately confiscated until Mr Brown had paid a fortune in legal fees, sold his house, and then been exonerated by the courts after discovering all his firearms were properly registered and stored. Wonderful thing this firearms act. Your guilty until they discover your innocent!)
Who Ya Gonna Call? 
Paramedics accused of killing for profit  LODZ, POLAND - Investigators in Poland are examining the deaths of 5,000 people over the past decade after two paramedics were charged with murdering patients in order to earn finders' fees from funeral homes. Shortly after the story broke, other paramedics in Lodz received death threats and ambulance calls dropped by 50 per cent.(Gee ya think?.. People actually believe that calling a paramedic should 'save' your hide.. but for who? )
Marshals on Australia-S'pore flights
AT LEAST two air marshals armed with stun guns or silencers will be on board Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Qantas flights on the busy Singapore-Australia route, following an agreement between the two countries. But only those flights deemed 'risky' will have these officers, working undercover in the fight against terrorism. They could be on board the commercial planes by Christmas, according to wire agency reports, but Australia's Minister for Justice and Customs Chris Ellison was quoted in the Australian media as saying, 'I don't think we want to advertise when they would be on board'. Similar pacts with other nations are being pursued by both countries, the spokesmen for both countries told The Straits Times yesterday. Mr Troeth added that Australia was close to inking a pact with the United States as well as Canada.  (Well, it looks as if Canadians will be able to safely fly on two more airlines, Quantas and SIA. Of course, no such security will be found on 'Canadian' aircraft, because as every good liberal knows, when a hijacker slits the throat of the crew and aims the aircraft towards a nuclear power plant, bringing a firearm into the situation, only 'raises' the level of violence????? Don't worry if that seems strange, Ya gotta be a Liberal to understand it!)
Alliance Atlantis shuts down Salter Street Films
HALIFAX - Alliance Atlantis has announced that its Academy Award-winning Salter Street Films division has laid off its last employee and is about to close. The Halifax-based company produced This Hour Has 22 Minutes and earlier this year won an Oscar for co-producing the Michael Moore documentary Bowling for Columbine.(I guess this is what happens when you 'Co-' produce Lies, and try to pass them off as 'documentaries'. Gee, and they 'might' have hung around long enough to produce "Stupid Lying Fat Men" as a sequel)
Putting McLellan Back in Charge of The Gun Registry 'May' be a Good Thing!
Garry Breitkreuz, Official Opposition Critic for Firearms and Property Rights, was shocked at the news that his old foe, Anne McLellan, was back in charge of the gun registry.  “How could our new Prime Minister possibly tell Canadians he’s putting a new face on government and then put back in charge the same Minister who wasted the most money on the gun registry in the first place?  Unbelievable!  This is real slap in the face for the West,” said Breitkreuz. “This is the same Minister that promised in a letter to the Toronto Star in July 1999 that:  “User fees would cover the entire cost of the program.”  Today, the Toronto Star editorial board declared Chretien's “most memorable misstep” was “the $1 billion cost of a simple gun registry”.  “Well, most of the ‘mistepping’ was done by Anne McLellan,” reported Breitkreuz.  “Prime Minister Martin certainly rewards Liberals for their mistakes and has sent the wrong signal to his new Cabinet and to Canadians.”(The interesting thing here is McLellan has never 'really' won an election. She exists in office only as a prime example of what vote splitting really does to the countries political scene. Her first election was won by only 11 votes, her second by 200. This is not a mandate from the people, in any way, shape, or form. Adding up the combined 'right wing vote', clearly shows, without vote splitting, she would have lost BOTH elections by thousands of votes! This was simply a fluke of luck for her. The 'next' federal election will result in her banishment from the political scene. There is no way in hell, she can win an election against the united right, so she will only be in power until that next election happens. Even if the Liberals were to win again, she won't, because her track record shows no previous 'real' win, or public mandate. She was never, ever, wanted, and was elected simply by vote splitting default! This is good for firearms owners, because if she 'truly' thinks it might make the impossible happen 'for real' , she 'may' pull out the old "I was just following Orders" spiel, and yank the registry albatross from around her neck!)
Picked up By the Fuzz (and I bet it hurts!)
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BARRIE -- A 41-year-old man who pretended to be a police officer and inadvertently pulled over a real cop for speeding was sentenced in court yesterday. James Winton pleaded guilty to impersonating a police officer and was sentenced to the six months he had already spent waiting in jail, plus two years probation and a judicial request for psychiatric counselling. A search of Winton's trunk turned up a semi-automatic pistol, several hundred rounds of ammunition, a pocket criminal code, holster and make-believe police jackets.(In this particular case, the 'only' thing in the trunk that he legaly owned  was the pistol, and the ammo.. I know this guy, and he passed the same 'rigorous' government background check (gimme yer money and here's yer licence) that we all have. As a matter of fact, so did Mark (Gamil Gharbi) Lapine. See what a billion dollars has bought! Gun control works here just as well as it does anyplace else in the world!!)
Charges dropped in huge gun seizure
The Mounties had called the weapons seizure the largest in Manitoba history. Recently, Manitoba Justice dropped 28 criminal charges against Adam Morash, an avid gun collector who works at the provincial Legislative Building as a security guard. Further police investigation revealed the weapons were properly registered and stored. (If  'only' he had hid them under his bed, with a lock on every trigger he might have been OK! Why? because the cops were more pissed off that his security system and hidden vault was so good they couldn't  find it, or defeat it to steal his firearms. They were also obviously pissed off that someone could own that many firearms and NOT be a criminal. It simply defies the liberal logic that guns cause crime therefore if you own guns you are always to be suspect.  If 'guns' create criminals, then 'politics' creates liars.. Well, perhaps that not a good analogy. Politics 'really does' create liars.)
Promotion gives McLellan real power
Martin is not just raising McLellan up the flagpole to see if Alberta voters salute. He is giving her real powers, and not just as the minister responsible for the Canadian version of homeland security. However, McLellan has some political juggling ahead. The things that matter, as suggested by Premier Ralph Klein, include killing the Kyoto accord, dismantling the billion-dollar gun registry and allowing western farmers to abandon the Canadian Wheat Board -- all things supported by the federal government and, in the case of the horrifically expensive gun registry, linked directly to McLellan.(Yup, it was a team effort! McLellan spent the money, and Martin Signed all the cheques. I wonder which one parrot the infamous statement: "I Was Only Following Orders", then bend over and pull the plug?)
Martin's cabinet 'more of the same'
The Tory leader also singled out Martin's choice of deputy prime minister for particular criticism. "McLellan has been given back responsibilities for the disastrous gun registry that she brought in and was responsible for," he said. He added that McLellan and Finance Minister Ralph Goodale may be MPs from the West, but claims the cabinet is more representative of the region ring hollow. According to MacKay, overall the cabinet has one less minister from Western Canada. Urging the prime minister to consider an early recall of Parliament, MacKay urged voters to bear Martin's long political history in mind. "Martin is not embarking on a first mandate, but a fourth."(And if Martin wants a real 'forth' mandate, he better dump this farce of a money pit called the Gun Registry. McLellan has no chance out west in the next election now the the 'Right' is no longer splittling the vote. She got in the first time with an 11 vote win, and the second time with a 200 vote win, neither a real win, but rather a 'default' victory! And she'l be OUT if this gun registry does not vanish, and soon!)
Even his parting words are an insult to Canadians
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"We had a good kick at the can; it was a great run." Understated to the end, Jean Chretien offered those words as his simple eulogy to cabinet yesterday, bidding them all adieu as he prepares to take the final steps on his own "great run" through four decades in federal politics. (Well, Canadians are tired and pissed off at being the "can" he kept kicking. Most would jump at the chance to send him back to Shawinigan with their boot print in his backside! Good riddance to the shawinigan shyster, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out..)
Prime Minister Announces New Ambassador to the United Nations
Prime Minister Paul Martin announced that later today, he will be appointing the Honourable(?) Allan Rock, P.C., Q.C., most recently Minister of Industry, to be Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations in New York.  This appointment will be effective January 5, 2004.(Hmmm.. Canada's 'official' Minister of waste has been shifted to the U.N. where he will no doubt work towards 'yet  another' "Highly successful" gun registry for the world! They won't let him write cheques will they? After all, this is the man that proved the 'Peter Principal' to be fairly reliable)
Editorial: Chrétien's legacy is a stable country (Toronto Star)
Chrétien's longevity as prime minister, of course, guaranteed him his share of missteps, blunders and embarrassments — the $1 billion cost of a simple gun registry being perhaps the most memorable one. But they do not take away, in any significant way, from the gift he gave us all — a decade of prosperity, stability and relatively good government.(Absolutely incredible! Only the 'Trudeau Star' could describe the dismal state of the country, our poor relations with our biggest trading partner, the virtual demise of our military, the waste of billions and billions dollars directed to various boondoggles they were well warned about beforehand, the re-direction of more millions to Liberal supporters for questionable services, virtually EVERY lying election promise from the Red Book of Mao Chrétien still unfulfilled after ten years of forcing his will on his ministers,  as "relatively good government"! Perhaps someone should inform the Toronto Star, that there is no such thing as a "simple gun registry" Chrétien and his henchmen were all warned that this "simple gun registry" was going to cost over a billion dollars but all naysayers were poo-poohed as "Trafficking in Fictions")
McLellan, The 11 vote western wonder, 'is back' !
In her role as deputy prime minister, Ms. McLellan will speak for Mr. Martin in the House of Commons when he is away. She does not, however, speak French, and some observers consider her condescending in her answers. But Ms. McLellan's success in stick-handling other significant pieces of legislation cannot be denied. She is credited with avoiding controversy while pushing through the anti-terrorist legislation and has been given the task of controlling damage stemming from, among other issues, the controversial long-gun registry. Alberta's oil industry generally speaks highly of her, a strong ally as she campaigns on behalf of those Liberals trying to win seats in the city of Calgary. She is not afraid to play politics with her elbows up. In a long-running rivalry with former heritage minister Sheila Copps, Ms. McLellan is said to have given as good as she got. But simply making her the most important politician from Western Canada since former Tory deputy prime minister Don Mazankowski is no guarantee she will be able to deliver the region. (The backpedalling she will have to do on the gun registry itself will be amusing to say the least. Here's a person that loudly expounded the virtues of this farce, and under her 'direct watch',  it's costs ballooned all out of proportion, to become the yardstick to which every single item of waste within the entire country is measured.  Now, she has has the "Task of controlling the damage stemming from" this incredible waste of money. Can you say Karma? Shure... I knew you could!)
Few tears for Chretien's departure as Atlantic Canada faces sea of red ink
FREDERICTON (CP) - A busy political year has left Atlantic Canada a uniform Tory blue, but the four provinces are looking at a sea of red ink as they hope for better things from a new federal Liberal administration. Few politicians here are shedding tears over the departure of Jean Chretien, whose 10 years in office saw the deterioration of major sectors in Atlantic Canada, including the fishery, the shipbuilding industry, the military and the railway, and the rise of crippling provincial debt levels.  The question now is: will the region fare any better under Paul Martin? While Ottawa pumped billions of dollars into fiascos like the national gun registry, Atlantic Canada witnessed the decline of its shipbuilding industry, the loss of trains in most areas, turmoil in the fishery, the closure of emergency rooms, and test scores indicating major educational shortcomings. (Most of  Canada suffered the same abuse, with the exception I suppose of Quebec and Shawinigan in general! Will the man that signed all the boondoggled cheques to begin with, now make amends and blame it all on the 'previous' government (Using of course the Dalton McYuppy standard liberal, finger pointing  approach)? Or will he simply cruise along casting money to every good liberal supporter as Chrétien did? Time will tell, and he ain't got much of that left!)

Chrétien-era ministers have been told they won't be part of Martin's inner circle
Sources said yesterday that Martin officials have now informed a substantial list of cabinet ministers that they are unlikely to be part of the inner circle sworn in tomorrow -- including Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief, Transport Minister David Collenette, House Leader Don Boudria, Industry Minister Allan Rock, Heritage Minister Sheila Copps, Revenue Minister Elinor Caplan, Human Resources Minister Jane Stewart, Veterans Affairs Minister Rey Pagtakhan and Justice Minister Martin Cauchon. However, the changes in cabinet are not expected to be as big as had been speculated just days ago, when as few as eight of Jean Chrétien's ministers were expected to be included. Instead, somewhat more than half the cabinet is likely to be composed of newcomers.(The only ones missing from this 'clean sweep hit list' is Wayne Easter, and Annie 'got your gun'  McLellan. (Actually there is a 'going' list that has Easter on it) The Minister of Waste "Allan Rock" is OUT and no longer squandering your tax dollars. With Cauchon and Rock gone, so will be their legacy of waste, namely the useless gun registry. If Martin decides to consider turning over responsibility for firearms to the provinces, the west would be in good shape. However, with Dalton McYuppy in charge in Ontario, we could be in for a rough time here.)
Terrorist 'Fruit Cakes' Forbidden
"Actually," Duchesneau says, pulling a hatchet off a table already decorated with a toy 9-millimetre semi-automatic pistol (the property of a little traveller whose mom thought he might get bored en route), "the guy who owns this couldn't figure out why we took it off him when he boarded his flight." And then there was the American woman returning home who couldn't understand the real handgun she had received as a gift couldn't fly as carry-on luggage and the gentleman who had to be sat down and spoken to about how bringing his own parachute aboard the aircraft might disconcert the other passengers.(I'm sure the bright red tip on the muzzle of the child's 'deadly' handgun would have mesmerized anyone confronting him. As for the parachute! Well, If I was Flying Air Chance er.. Error Canada, a parachute might be more comforting than getting 'wacked' by a fruitcake!)
Brazil Approves Tough Gun Controls to Cut Murders
The disarmament statute aims to control the flow of legal arms into the swelling arms black market, now thought to contain up to 20 million handguns. The statute makes it illegal for ordinary Brazilians to own guns and imposes tough prison sentences on people found carrying them illegally . It calls for background checks for gun purchases and raises the legal age for gun ownership to 25 from 21. The Federal Police are going to take over registration of guns from state authorities and create a national firearm registry. Gun owners would have 180 days after the law is passed to register them or hand them in to the police. After that time, anyone found with an unregistered gun faces up to four years in prison.  The disarmament statute aims to control the flow of legal arms into the swelling arms black market, now thought to contain up to 20 million handguns. (Well,  there you have it!. If it will be illegal for "ordinary citizens to own guns" then obviously registering them will only result in confiscation.  Again, another country that feels banning something, will make everything all better. When, in fact the 'banning' will only make the illegal market MUCH bigger than the huge market it already is. With a person in Brazil being murdered every 12 minutes 'now', after the government disarms all the 'law abiding people' the criminals will find pickings much, much easier, and the murder rate will climb to one every 6 minutes within a year or two. If your willing to murder someone, 4 years in prison for possession of a firearm is absolutely no deterrent whatsoever. Just imagine, if  someone in Canada was being murdered every 12 minutes! The LAST thing I would ever give up is my gun.  You might as well walk into the streets and yell "shoot me, rob me, rape me, I'm just too stupid to exist".)
GUN CONTROL HAS GIVEN US A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY
Fourteen years after the so-called Montreal Massacre - when a suicidal man armed with an assault rifle murdered 14 women at an engineering school - it's still not clear what, if anything, Canadians have learned from that dark Dec. 6. The massacre galvanized two distinct movements across this country: one for stricter gun controls, the other to raise awareness of (male) violence against women. But the further we get from that 1989 tragedy, the more convoluted seem the paths taken by those two movements. Especially gun control. At first, it seemed like an obvious, urgent need. After all, one man managed to slay 14 and wound 13 (including four men) in minutes; to many, the natural reaction was to have his monstrous weapon be banned. Demanding a rifle registry was, for them, like establishing a memorial to the innocent young victims. But today, all but the most ardent anti-gun zealots have to admit gun control has become little more than a monument to government waste. The long-gun registry that was supposed to protect us all from another crazed shooter (though it's unclear how) has resulted instead in a litany of galling bureaucratic screw-ups that in no way prevent crime.(Any laws conceived of a 'knee-jerk' reaction, are not now, or never will be, effective. This is simply 'feel good' legislation, enacted for political 'brownie points' with the urban voters. Unfortunately the author of this article fails to point out (as it would be politically incorrect in this country) that the reason for the huge reduction in violent crime in the U.S. is that the majority of states now see firearms, and casually armed law abiding citizens, as part of the solution, and not as the public threat, liberal pacifists and others who fear self-defence, and confrontation do! Quite simply, you are less likely to be attacked if the criminal thinks your armed. And 'that's' the very reason you don't sneak up and poke a sleeping dog isn't it? The real reason for the Montreal massacre is not the 'availability' of firearms, but the LACK of availability. If only one of those people, besides the nutcase, was armed the story would have had a much different ending, and the flourishing 'grief industry' would have to pick another poster campaign.)
Martin cabinet hopefuls screened on personal issues
Financial dealings, sex lives and drug use among questions asked by transition team
OTTAWA -- Paul Martin's senior advisers are screening as many as 70 Liberal MPs for coveted cabinet posts, grilling them on a variety of issues, including their financial dealings, sex lives and drug use. The 30-minute interviews, many of which were conducted on Sunday at two downtown Ottawa hotels, are considered the second phase in Mr. Martin's elaborate cabinet-building process. "They [the Martin interviewers] say at the opening statement this is the second phase," said a Liberal familiar with the screening process. The first phase was conducted late last month when the MPs were subjected to an RCMP security check and another check by Revenue Canada. The second-phase questions range from conflict issues to personal drug use to whether the MP has had an extramarital affair. (Those are all important issues! After all, if a politician is 'not' screwing his wife, it just means there's a much better chance that he's screwing 'you'.. Here's an idea! They could save a lot of time, just have each and every one of them fill out a application for a firearms licence. It asks, among others, all of those very questions!)
Shaping Martin's approach to West
Policy guru Arthur Kroeger comes out of retirement to work on transition team
Considered one of the so-called Three Wise Men of the transition team, along with economist Peter Nicholson and former Trudeau-era cabinet minister Francis Fox, Kroeger was brought in by Martin mainly for his unparalleled expertise of government operations in order to help realign government departments and to develop a new cabinet structure. But he has also enjoyed being able to join with a half-dozen fellow westerners in shaping how the new government will approach its dealings with the West."The moral of the story is that as long as you approach the West with the right mindset, you can do unpopular things." The Chretien government apparently never learned these lessons. First, it foisted the highly unpopular firearms registry on rural westerners, even though the problem it was attempting to deal with was in the urban centres in the east. "The gun registry was exactly what you'd expect from a Toronto, urban minister with no sensitivity to the culture of rural Canada and most particularly, the rural West," Kroeger said. "When I was growing up on the farm, the .22 rifle hung above the kitchen door and when you saw the coyote heading for the chicken coop, you took down the rifle. You didn't need to open a locked cabinet and take a psychological test before you could. "There was no sensitivity in the gun registry and how it would be viewed in the rural West.(Or the Rural any place in Canada for that matter. Allan Rock is a city dwelling yuppy, that only sees firearms in the news, when police display them after a drug bust. Now that the right is getting their crap together, Martin faces the first 'real' opposition the Liberals have faced in their ten year dictatorship. Advise to the advisors? Advise them to do what's RIGHT, or their History!)
Review finds gaps in RCMP protection of VIPs
Deziel declined to elaborate on concerns in the report voiced by members about "the training, skills and abilities" of armed bodyguards who accompany politicians visiting Canada. The RCMP screens requests from foreign security officers to carry firearms. While in Canada, armed officers from abroad come under supervision of the Mounties and must follow Canadian police practices. Before the 1997 gathering of Asia-Pacific leaders in Vancouver, an Indonesian diplomat alarmed the RCMP by asking what would happen to bodyguards accompanying the country's then leader, Suharto, if one of them pulled out a gun and shot a Canadian demonstrator. The review also uncovered reservations within the force about instances when dignitaries refuse protection, known as a "protectee waiver." Even though a person has formally declined the RCMP's services, the force remains responsible for guarding them, Deziel said.(What would happen indeed! What I assume would happen, is a flourish of 'diplomatic immunity', and a hasty exit from the country. Even a visiting dictatorial despot,  has more rights than the average Canadian. The RCMP are "responsible" for protecting them. They have no such responsibility when it comes to you or your family. If a foreign dictator's "body guards' (which are frequently no more than thugs in suits) can enter this country armed, they 'must' have every right to turn those firearms on Canadians, if 'they' think it's necessary. If they do not have that right, why do the RCMP  allow them to remain armed? Very simple! Their V.I.P.'s your N.O.T.H.I.N.G.'s )
The Five Most Unthankful Nations To The United States
After a great interest in my recent column for Thanksgiving, The Five Most Thankful Nations to the United States, I have decided to name The Five Most Unthankful Nations to the United States.  Number 1 Canada
Our northern neighbor shares the longest undefended border in the world, but the enemies on September 11, 2001 used it to enter our nation. Since 1867 when Canada became an independent nation, the United States and Canada have shared a strong relationship including military support. As Canada’s liberal government continues to widen the gap that has formed between our nations over the last ten years with policies such as gay marriage, unlimited immigration, decriminalized marijuana, and Operation Iraqi Freedom, many of us on both sides of the border wonder what went wrong, and how we can fix the problem.( The September 11 terrorists 'DID NOT ENTER FROM CANADA', So pull your head out of your ass! Just about everything else has 'some' truth. As for the other 4 "unthankful nations"? All I can think of is the old children's song.. Nobody likes me.. Everybody hates me.. I think I'll go out in the garden and eat worms!! Or at the very least 'find GW's weapons of mass distraction'!)
The Return of the Wild
Suburbanites must learn to kill again.
After decades of assuming that civilization is bad for wild animals and nature--as seen on PBS--humans are learning that things can go the other way. It's not a pretty sight. Fifty-seven bears entered homes. Two attacked people, including a two-year-old. In some parts of Jersey, kids are told not to put school lunches in their backpacks but to carry them in their hands instead. That way, if they encounter a bear, they can throw a sandwich on the ground to distract the animal and make a getaway.(Where is this? It's hard to believe, but it's New Jersey. The Disneyites contend that all bears are 'Winnie the Pooh', all deer are Bambi, and modern city children are 'never' told the story of Red Riding Hood because 'she' was saved by a 'hunter', and hunters are evil! Gone are the days when Disney would cover a guy with leather, slap a dead Racoon on his head, and call him Davey Crocket. It's just not American!)
Orchard's lawsuit dismissed by judge
TORONTO - David Orchard's attempt to legally scuttle the Canadian Alliance merger with the federal Progressive Conservatives has failed. An Ontario Superior Court judge decided on Friday that Orchard's lawsuit has no merit. "The application is dismissed in its entirety," wrote Superior Court Justice Russell Juriansz.(David Orchard has failed in his "Sour Grapes" attempt to scuttle the merger. Saturday the Tories will vote to join the Alliance, and a new Liberal defeating party will be born! And, all will be happy. At least until 'they' screwup)
GUN REGISTRY COMPUTER SYSTEM 'IS' AN “IT DISASTER”
Yorkton – “Many people across Canada often ask me: Why does the gun registry cost so much?  I tell them incompetence is the key factor and more evidence of this bureaucratic bungling is contained in the 406 pages of documents we released today,” said Garry Breitkreuz, Official Opposition Critic for Firearms and Property Rights.  “Three years after three consulting companies reported major problems with their computer system, the Justice Department is still calling it an Information Technology (IT) disaster.”
“On March 9, 2000, EDS Canada had 146 employees working in the gun registry,” reported Breitkreuz.  They fired EDS Canada after spending $227 million and signed another contract for $300 million with CGI Group and BDP to replace everything that EDS has already been paid for.  The question all taxpayers should be asking is: Why has this fiasco been allowed to continue for so long?  Every Minister involved in this mess should be banished to the backbenches by the Prime Minister and sent into early retirement by their constituents,” demanded Breitkreuz.
Documents obtained by Breitkreuz through one of his more than 400 Access to Information Act requests uncovered a Justice Department e-mail dated April 9, 2003 that stated: “CFC to assume responsibility for IT disaster recovery effective on ?? date.”(I have a feeling that the entire Liberal Party will be in a "Disaster Recovery" mode once the next election campaign starts. )
Tough words for Africa
(Canoe link: Will vanish in 24 hrs or less)
The PM, attending his last Commonwealth leaders meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, said African nations have to help themselves. He said nervousness would disappear when they can assure business they have "an honest system of justice, that the decisions of the courts will be implemented, that human rights will be protected, and that elections will be fair."  Chretien told his business audience yesterday that he felt strong emotions because his address would be one of his final foreign speeches as PM.  The Commonwealth leaders summit officially opens today amid tight security in the Nigerian capital. Machine-gun-toting soldiers guard entrances to the three main hotels, which are ringed with razor wire.(Hmmm honest system of justice? Human rights protected? Election will be fair? Is he talking about his own government in Canada? Pushing criminals through a revolving door justice system, Ignoring  a multitude of items in the Canadian & United Nations bill of human rights as far as law abiding firearms owners are concerned, and calling an election whenever he feels like it to disadvantage the opposition and the general voting public. Razor wire and gun toting guards sounds an awful like the last protest in Montreal, or the snipers on the rooftops of parliament during a 'peaceful' anti-gun control rally.. This doddling old fart knows of what he speaks, only because he has used every one of them!)
Protests flare ahead of PM's arrival in Nigeria
"The people are dying, but the government is organizing jamborees to impress their foreign collaborators," protest leader Bamidele Aturu shouted before police moved in to break up the march.  Chretien, who is on the last foreign trip of his career as prime minister, will join Queen Elizabeth for the conference, which runs from Dec. 5-8. Chretien will stop in Paris on the way home from Nigeria for a farewell dinner with French President Jacques Chirac on Dec. 9.(Sending Chrétien to this Nigerian conference to represent Canada, is like mailing a jar of farts. Most of the substance and effectiveness has dissipated, and the arriving contents are virtually worthless for any form of statement or impact!)
But this is Canada, and guns ‘r'n't us.
Romeo Dallaire is a national hero and a riveting speaker. I saw him in action recently, and he left the audience in tears. With raw passion, he described the awful butchery in Rwanda and how powerless he was to stop it. Every day for months, he begged and pleaded with the UN for reinforcements. With even a few thousand troops, he believes, he could have saved hundreds of thousands of people. But help never came. Instead of sending more troops, the United Nations decided to withdraw them. The United States was utterly indifferent, too. And so, as the world looked the other way, Rwanda became the greatest killing field since Cambodia.  The audience of journalists and business people gave the general a standing ovation. Which is highly ironic, since few of them, I suspect, would lift a finger to make Canada a nation that could help him out. Preventing genocide and ethnic slaughter (or peacekeeping, as we so euphemistically like to call it) requires force of arms. But this is Canada, and guns ‘r'n't us. (The Liberal understanding of violence is: They know it's all around us, but if Canadians keep their heads down, and ignore it, everything will be OK. THIS is the reason that governments are quick to send "councillors' to help people get over tragic events. This countries average Liberal voter has been so insulated from world violence, they simply can't handle it when it arrives on their own door step. Sit down to watch an old cowboy movie on television, and a notice always comes up saying "Warning: This program contains scenes of 'violence' ". The violence? Well, that's just usually some 'sheriff' punching the bad guy in the mouth. But to today's 'head-up-your-ass', ignore it and it will cease to exist Liberal fantasy society. What you watched everyday as a child back in the 50's, that by the way, caused you no harm or shock what-so-ever, is aberrant to their protected, insulated, little world. This is why we have no credible military, this is why the Liberals can lie to the public and dump a billion of your tax dollars into a farce of a gun registry that protects no one but the criminals, while duping fellow Liberals into believing 'guns' are the problem, and not those that would criminally use them. The closest Romeo Dallaire could ever get to having this Liberal government do 'anything' in regards to any genocide slaughter, anywhere in the world, is if he could guarantee a 'photo-op' for a Liberal politician, safely away from the actual sight of violence. Remember, if they can't actually see it, it does not exist! WARNING: This war 'may' contain scenes of violence. Councillors are available!)
Getting rid of the  Gun Control Farce, and Kyoto
Paraphrasing poet T.S. Eliot, who wrote that the greatest treason is to do the right deed for the wrong reason, practitioners of public policy might say that the greatest failure is to do the right thing with the wrong means.
When that happens — right policy, wrong methods — ends and means get confused in the public's mind, so that the desirable end gets sullied by costly, ineffective, even counterproductive means. Refugee policy is a classic case in point. The highly desirable goal of a generous attitude toward genuine refugees gets tarnished because the means of the refugee-determination system are so screwed up the public turns against the goal. And defenders of the goal are so blinded by their commitment, they can't see the damage done to its pursuit by the screwed-up means. Gun control is another classic case. The goal of reducing the number of guns (for other than recreational purposes) is admirable, but the means chosen by the Chrétien government — a $1-billion national gun registry — turned into an administrative fiasco that soured people on the goal itself.(Finally! Unless Paul Martin is much, much, stupider than he looks. The gun registry will be history, and much sooner than Wendy Weirdo's would like. If Wendy wants to feel 'empowered' again, perhaps she should buy a gun! A trained, intelligent, woman with a gun is no pushover for any creep. That's "Gun Control" as it should be!)
Khadr lawyer backs off over death threat
"Well, Mr. Galati. What's this I hear about you working with the terrorist now, helping to get that punk terrorist Khadr off. You a dead wop," the message said. "It's a frightening call. It's not the run-of-the-mill, usual sort of ranting and raving sort of lunatic hate call that you might expect or usually get," said Galati. "It's obviously a direct cold or professional call." Galati says he believes the call is a serious message to back off national security cases. He didn't offer any further explanation. Galati says police have traced the call to a Mississauga phone booth. Police placed his house under heightened alert for 911 calls, but have offered no extra protection, he said. He said he no longer feels it's safe to handle national security cases. (All a 'heightened alert for 911' will do is get the person who does the chalk outline, to be on short notice call! He'd be better off with a gun, the person who threatened him would be caught off guard and surprised by the sudden loud noise, and possibly a bullet zipping through his body. Canadians make the best victims because their usually unarmed, and if they do defend themselves with deadly force, they may do more time in prison than the attacker! Makes for a pretty safe criminal environment doesn't it?)
Liberals begin planning post-Chrétien government
OTTAWA - Liberal MPs have started work drafting prriorities for Paul Martin's first speech from the throne. The two days of meetings are taking place without Martin, who is making appearances in Montreal and Vancouver, but MPs insist the incoming prime minister is serious about giving them a greater role in directing government policy. Martin has made empowering backbenchers a cornerstone of his leadership. Party staffers handed arriving MPs a copy of his policy guide released at last month's Liberal leadership convention, entitled The Politics of Achievement. Caucus chair Stan Keyes says the sessions will be run by professional moderators. Consultant and long-time Martin confidant David Herle led MPs through the most recent polling on Canadians' views of government. Caucus then split into six separate groups to come up with recommendations for sustainable development, foreign affairs, cities and social policy. A copy of the agenda includes detailed proposals for a national, early childhood development strategy and a call to rethink the controversial and hugely expensive gun registry. (The national early childhood development strategy as well as hundreds of 'other' programs to get at the 'root' cause of violence could be funded by dumping the farce of political gun control)
Thousands of Ontario court cases could be thrown out
TORONTO - Ontario's auditor general is warning a massive backlog could result in thousands of criminal cases being thrown out of court. In his report, Erik Peters says a third of charges take more than eight months to get to court. Peters says there were 90,000 cases as of March 2002, up 65 per cent from the last audit in 1997. "There is a risk that a situation similar to 1992 may be developing, when long delays resulted in more than 50,000 charges being withdrawn from prosecution," cautioned Peters. A Supreme Court ruling more than a decade ago said charges should be dropped if they take eight to 10 months to get to court. (And McGuinty, a self proclaimed "Huge, Huge, Fan of Gun Registration" has said he would add to the number of 'real' criminal cases being thrown out of court, by prosecuting Ottawa's 'paper' criminals, manufactured by failing to register privately owned property with the federal government for future confiscation. Liberals 'love' criminals. That's why they have MORE rights than 'you' do!)
 The Medium is the 'Mangled' Message
LONDON - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has emerged the "clear" winner for a British award given to the worst mangler of the English language. Rumsfeld's mangled message? "Reports that say something hasn't happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known unknowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know." The campaign says Rumsfeld beat out actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose contribution was: "I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman." Prime Minister Jean Chrétien didn't even make the short list for his contribution last September when he said: "I know, a proof is a proof. What kind of a proof is a proof? A proof is a proof and when you have a good proof it's because it's proven." (Well, he may have lost, but to the majority of all Canadians, he's still the number one asshole er.. Language Assassin)
The Canadian Forces are at death's door
Doug Bland, who led the study and is chairman of the defence management studies program, said the crisis in the military is so extensive that even if Mr. Martin earmarks a substantial amount of money for the Canadian Forces the situation would not change at first. "Even if he found $3 billion a year for the armed forces, it's not going to solve his problem because of the legacy he's been left with" by Prime Minister Jean Chretien and former prime minister Brian Mulroney, Mr. Bland said. "We ran out of armed forces." He noted that fixing the problem will take the efforts of Mr. Martin's government as well as the next. Mr. Bland predicted that Mr. Martin will likely cut military capabilities to solve other problems he faces. The country's dwindling military capabilities will further hurt relations with the U.S., which has voiced concerns about Canada not pulling its weight in defence matters, he added. It will also have a direct impact on Canadian sovereignty.(What a legacy the Liberals have left! Paul Martin, now the leader of the most Powerless Nation in the western world has a decision to make. Either abandon Canadian Sovereignty, eliminate the border and we all become Americans (Yup Quebec Too!), or return Canada to the once proud nation it was before Liberal Social re-engineering created the impotent country it has now become. Will Martin now take the ball and run with it? Or will he just be another Liberal Leader that never had any balls to begin with?) NEWTOWN, CT -- Sportsmen, collectors and anyone else with a love for craftsmanship and history will have a chance to bid on an exquisite one-of-a-kind Belgian-made Browning Auto 5 that was created to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of this tremendously popular shotgun. The commemorative Auto 5 features custom hand engraving and 24-karat gold inlay. The right side of the gun shows a vignette of John Browning standing in front of the Fabrique Nationale plant, four high-relief gold-inlaid mallards in flight and a banner with the dates, "1902-2002," and the words, "A-5 Browning-One Hundred Years." The left side features the words, "Auto-5 A Legacy of Genius," inlaid in flush gold, four high-relief gold-inlaid Canada geese and a banner that reads, "Century Commemorative." The commemorative's fancy walnut stock is hand carved and checkered. The offering is completed by an exquisite leather takedown case.(Australian and U.K. residents need not bid. This exquisite firearm has been pronounced as a criminal type weapon in those countries. One more round of Liberal dictatorship would just about do it here as well!)
Another Liberal Bails
Dhaliwal quits; denies rift with Martin
OTTAWA - Natural Resources Minister Herb Dhaliwal announced today that he is quitting politics to spend more time with his family and concentrate on running his Vancouver businesses. Dhaliwal said he will resign from cabinet Dec. 12 — his 51st birthday — and serve his term as a backbencher until the next federal election, expected this spring. Dec. 12 is also the day Paul Martin is to be sworn in as prime minister and introduce his cabinet — a cabinet expected to exclude Dhaliwal. (Hey maybe Martin 'will' actually make a difference? Nah.. better to bail then be a forever impotent backbencher in another Liberal dictatorship! Who's next? Minister of waste Allan Rock? Nah.. That would make too much sense even for a 'blue tinged' liberal leader!)
Putin puts last spike in Kyoto
Eventually somebody is going to have to stand up and formally declare the Kyoto Protocol to be dead. Now might be the time, since it's best to clean these global policy carcasses off the scene before rigor mortis sets in. Yesterday, for the umpteenth time in two months, a Russian official announced his government isn't prepared to ratify the 10-year-old United Nations plan to control the world's weather by controlling greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking in Moscow just as another UN climate change extravaganza was starting up in Milan, Andrei Illarionov, President Vladimir Putin's economic advisor, said Kyoto is inconsistent with Russia's growth objectives. "Adhering to the provisions of the Kyoto Treaty and achieving economic growth are incompatible," he said. Russian officials, including Mr. Putin, have said this before, but now the message appears to be sinking in that Russia means it and, as a result, Kyoto is kaput. Without Russia, the treaty cannot formally come into force. Not that it matters. The terms of Kyoto, not to mention its underlying science and economics, are so far off reality by now that even if the protocol were to survive in some form it would signify nothing. Even Canada, the Boy Scout of Kyoto ratification under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and David Anderson, his Environment Minister, has abandoned the treaty in all practical respects. Canada cannot and will not meet its original Kyoto carbon reduction targets. And yesterday Paul Martin added to the shakiness of Canada's support with the observation that Canada still does not have a plan in place, even though the country has spent $3.6-billion working up schemes to control greenhouse emissions. Standing on the firmest logical ground not always held by Mr. Chrétien, Mr. Martin said: "You need a plan to determine whether you can meet the targets." Canada, he said, had not yet developed that plan. (If that 3.6 Billion had been spent on fuel cell technology, and the further development of hydrogen power for example, Canada would have made a significant contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gasses as the rest of the world adopted the developed technologies. But unfortunately, that would have put a big hole in the plans and finances of  Chrétien's future benefits from Desmarais and Power Corp. If you think Kyoto was about saving the planet you have your head up your ass. The Kyoto Accord was for all intents and purposes based on the 'Dopeler effect': Which is "The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly". )
FIREARMS FORENSIC UNIT HAD THEIR BUDGET CUT: RCMP DOCUMENTS REVEAL
“For the sake of $446,000 (0.3% of this year’s gun registry budget of $128 million), the Liberals decided to let hundreds of Wildlife Act offenders off scot-free,” protested Breitkreuz.  Other documents provided by the RCMP show there have been 222 “wildlife cases” handled by the firearms forensic unit since 2001.  “And, it’s not just the provinces that are affected by these cuts,” reported Breitkreuz.  “The RCMP admitted that these cuts also affect prosecutions by Fisheries and Oceans, Parks Canada and enforcement of the Federal Migratory Birds Act but failed to provide any statistics to justify their claim that the firearms forensic services was under such ‘heavy pressure’.  Now, their own budget cuts are affecting the Liberals’ promises to protect wildlife and the environment,”(The ONLY thing the liberals are trying desperately to protect is their own asses, in the hope that Canadians are stupid enough, yet again, to vote this wasteful bunch of self-serving politicians back into office. And,  thereby sanction the seemingly endless supply of lackey bureaucrats that feed them the bullshit that ultimately controls this country! )
The perverse policy of the gun registry
Every time the Canada Firearms Centre is in the news, its credibility diminishes. Whether it is an exposé of bureaucratic incompetence at managing the computer system leading to the permanent extinction of the records of thousands of registered guns or the sending of an angry letter to a dead man, rebuking him for failing to register hunting rifles that had long been sold by his family, nearly every story about this billion-dollar fiasco provides another reason to scrap the entire project. In Britain, for two decades, gun laws have grown more restrictive and violent crime has increased. In 1996, the UK surpassed the U.S. in violent crime rates. Banning ownership of handguns in 1997 was followed by a serious increase in both violent and gun crime. Likewise in Australia that same year, draconian firearms legislation was immediately followed by an increase in robbery and armed robbery. The Australian taxpayers forked over $500-million to enable bureaucrats to confiscate and destroy thousands of guns. As in Canada, sensible Aussies made the obvious criticism that the money could have been spent on more police and better equipment. Worst of all for the emotional as well as for the more reasonable gun control advocates in Canada, the comparison with the U.S. is particularly unflattering. Today, where 35 states allow qualified and responsible citizens to carry concealed weapons, violent crime and homicide rates have plummeted. The evidence is clear and so is its meaning. Confiscating, prohibiting and registering guns are all expensive failures. The only beneficiaries of this perverse policy are criminals who can more easily prey on an unarmed citizenry and their bureaucratic accomplices whose jobs have the effect of harming this same populace.(A complete reversal of this farce would see a 'decrease' in violent crime in Canada. Although it's highly unlikely we would ever be allowed the personal protection that is taken for granted in the United States. Saturday December 6th will mark the anniversary of the grief industry and gun control fanatics greatest media asset, the deaths of 14 young women at the hand of a deranged madman. Two things could have prevented this tragedy, and those were: #1 The police never even entered the building until at least 30 minutes after the last shot was fired. #2 Every one of the people in that school was unarmed, except for the madman. One person, armed with a small 'now banned' handgun, could have saved many lives that day. Unfortunately for a lot of Canadian victims,  Canadians seem to be taught from birth that they are to be non combatants. Comply and be killed.  Fighting back will only increase the level of violence!!! (???) . The unfortunate truth that dialling 911 and waiting for rescue, only results in a chalk outline 90% of the time. It's YOUR LIFE! Fight for it. Unless of course, you feel you or your children are your not worth the effort! Why is the government allowed to arbitrarily decide that  the training and tools for the protection of  YOUR life or the lives of your children be withheld, unless you are a sanctioned government agent? Your life is far too important to your family to allow the government to decide otherwise! )
A 'NEW' Low, Even For PETA!!
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - In an attempt to push people away from eating meat, PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has used religious icons to associate vegetarianism with virginity. The billboard shows the Madonna cradling a chicken in her arms and below reads a caption, "Go Vegetarian-It's an Immaculate Conception." PETA intentionally chose Providence to launch its message because the state is home to the highest number of Roman Catholics. (Christians across the entire world should be outraged by the 'direct replacement' of the Christ Child by a 'Chicken'. This dysfunctional group of misfits and nitwits should have their vegetables 'force fed' from the 'other' end!! )
Martin should nix gun registry
Global Television Monday, December 01, 2003: Over at the gun registry's puzzle palace, things keep getting worse. It was supposed to cost a few million dollars. Now, it looks like it'll pass the billion dollar mark next year. A year early. And furthermore, they want to replace their computer system -- for $300 million. All this for a list of farmers' shotguns, while the crooks who actually shoot people... Well, guess what? They don't register their guns. Like we need this. This is Canada. Nobody shoots anybody they don't know. So, here's how to spend a billion dollars fighting crime. You give it to the RCMP. Their whole budget is $2 billion a year -- even dribbled out over several years, another billion would make a real difference. Then, all those extra mounties could go after the 36,000 illegal immigrants who need deporting, or the biker gangs, the terrorists, or the 2300 child pornographers whose names we have, but not the resources to prosecute them. And so on. They could even keep an eye on MPs like poor old Andy Scott who got beat up outside his office by an angry constituent. Paul Martin has promised a program review. Here's one he can review right out the door. Top of the list. I'm Nigel Hannaford of the Calgary Herald, and that's The Last Word.(Unfortunately, if media giants like Global T.V. had listened to us before, public pressure would have slammed the lid on this farce years ago. However, with the exception of the Trudeau Toronto Star, they all support us now, and the ball is firmly in Martins court. Will he continue the absurd liberal dogma regarding firearms, or use common sense and scrap it completely? It would be relatively easy to repeal this farce and re-institute the previous 'working' legislation. But, as we all know, common sense is not a Liberal attribute)
Canada's guns thumb a ride
Canada's military was trying to get another message across — that it and the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, have capabilities that far outstrip those of the Afghan army. "They can see that we're able to deploy air-mobile. We don't need our vehicles to move the guns," said Lieutenant Kathy Hanna, who was responsible for the big guns. "We can deploy rapidly and over greater distances with helicopters. "Unfortunately, Canada doesn't actually have choppers in Afghanistan (or I suppose anywhere else)  that are able to move a 105-mm howitzer. Germany provided the ride for Monday's operation, deploying two CH-53 Sea Stallions, regarded as the workhorses of the skies.(All this shows is that: because of Canadian Liberal Anti- Military politics, Canada is incapable of moving anything. It has howitzers, but did the Liberals allow them to possess any ammunition for them? Or, are the Spanish or Italians loaning and moving those for us? How embarrassing to be Canadian under a Liberal government!)
Court of Appeal upholds researcher's drug sentence
Hornby was president of Hedron Analytical Inc., which had a Health Canada licence to do analysis of marijuana plants to determine THC content. The company wasn't permitted to grow marijuana. Hornby's lawyer argued that his client was doing medicinal marijuana research, trying to find out how marijuana could be used without the intoxicating effects of the drug. Hornby, who has a zoology degree and a PhD in human pathology, was sentenced last March 3 after pleading guilty to one count of possessing marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, and possessing an unregistered firearm. Police found a replica M-16 rifle in a closet in Hornby's Richmond home. He told police the weapon was for "a little security on the chance of someone invading the house." The gun wasn't loaded and Hornby had no ammunition. (Although It would seem that the useless and automatic  'unsafe storage' charge  was not implemented, the B.C. Liberals ARE prosecuting people for possession of an unregistered firearm. )
Don't take your gun to Canadian High Commission in Jamaica!
THE recent accidental discharge of a handgun from a licensed firearm holder has forced the Canadian High Commission in Kingston to ban the carrying of guns on its premises. The high commission said yesterday that the rule became effective in mid-November, and in newspaper advertisements Sunday, said there would be no exception to the new security arrangement. Prior to the incident in mid-November, the high commission accepted weapons from visitors for temporary safe-keeping, but decided to stop the practice after the incident, Canadian High Commission spokesman, Robert Richards, told the Observer. "It happened that a gun has gone off by accident on the premises. We do not want undue risks for visitors, staff and ourselves," Richards said.(I think you have to read between the lines here! The gun that A.D.'d was 'FROM' a licensed holder, not 'BY' a licensed holder. It would seem the the incompetence of a Canadian bureaucrat, completely unfamiliar with firearms goofed and fired the gun! More likely than not, being totally unfamiliar with firearms as most Canadian bureaucrats are, he or she was simply curious about the forbidden, and just about shot someone while incompetently playing with it.. Obvious 'Canadian' Solution ? Ban guns from places stupid people might have access to them.. I think that in a dangerous place like Jamaica, keeping stupid untrained bureaucrats away from firearms might be a better idea than banning them totally. Just a guess, but probably a correct one!)
Who killed Johnny?
For more than a year, a particularly crafty housebreaker had troubled Toronto. This second-storey man, or "velvet-footed porch creeper," as one Toronto Daily Star story put it in the lively newspaper prose of the day, had been hitting several houses a week, mostly in the St. Clair and Dufferin area. His technique was always the same: walk along city streets at night until he saw a house where a group of people was gathered in a downstairs room, typically playing bridge. He'd climb on to a porch, search for an unlatched window, enter, quietly rummage though the purses and coats left on a bed upstairs, then make his escape. On Nov. 29, he hit a house on Rosecliffe Dr., and among the items he grabbed was a .32-calibre revolver. The gun's owner told the police the gun was blue steel, with a black guard, a white ivory sight running along the top of the barrel and a V-shaped sight at its end. And our killer, what about him? Did he ever tell anyone? Both Van Allen and Malcolm say he may well have carried his secret to his grave. "If he had half a brain," says Sgt. Jim Muscat, spokesperson of the Toronto Police Service, "and I believe he did, he knew to keep his mouth shut." But there may be someone out there who always suspected something.  And there was that gun, never found. Is it sitting in a drawer somewhere? Is it tucked in a hot-air duct in an old row house, just one blow from a renovator's sledge away from being found? A small gun, with a distinctive ivory sight ...(Now that it's a 'prohibited' firearm, anyone that may have it or find it, will not take a chance on being charged and sent away for ten years. If found, it may be disposed of on the black market, rather than turned in. Of course, the police may find it at the scene, the next time it's used. Gun bans don't recover guns, they only drive them deeper underground!)
U.S. Supreme Court sidesteps politically charged gun rights case
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court disappointed gun rrights groups Monday, refusing to consider whether the U.S. Constitution guarantees people a personal right to own a gun. The court has never said if the constitutional right to "keep and bear arms" applies to individuals. Although the Bush administration has endorsed individual gun-ownership rights, it did not encourage the justices to resolve the issue in this case involving a challenge of California laws banning high-powered weapons. Many other groups wanted the court to take the politically charged case, including the National Rife Association, the Pink Pistols, a group of gay and lesbian gun owners; the Second Amendment Sisters; Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws, and Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.(If the courts would only capitulate to the anti gunners, by ordering them for the period of one year, to place 'the' sign on their property that informs ALL that they are strictly against firearms, have none in their possession, and refuse to use a firearm in self defence.  At the end of the year, if their still alive, and/or have not changed their minds, the court would consider their case! Yup, I think one year ought to about do it!)
Listen! Hear the 'shriek' of the Always Poorly Informed Animal Rights Groups
SAFARI  SLAUGHTER
WEALTHY British businessmen are paying up to £40,000 to slaughter endangered animals on hunting holidays to Africa, North America and Eastern Europe. These "trophy hunters" are forking out huge sums to blast rare rhino, lions and elephants on the highly-organised safaris. Wild game are tracked, killed and then stuffed so clients can ship their bloody souvenirs home. And the venture - which amazingly is not illegal - is being organised by travel firms in the UK for more than 700 British customers every year. Companies specialising in safaris and sporting holidays are advertising the slaughter packages over the internet and customers can book online using a credit card. One website, www.sportingagent.com, offers VIP clients the chance to slaughter the "Big Five" - buffalo, elephant, lion, leopard and rhino from less than £300 a day. (What these poor 'Animal Rights' fools fail to grasp is that African countries that do not allow safari hunting are plagued with poachers, and no one but the government rangers to spot and deal with them. As a result, poaching goes virtually unchecked and thousands of  animals are not hunted, but slaughtered for financial gain, and the slaughter will continue until the species is extinct.  Hunting prevents that, by culling animals, and putting more people in the wildlife areas to spot and report poachers. I would have more respect for these animal rights loons, if there was any evidence of them actually 'doing' something to manage wildlife. Hunters spend billions every year which in most cases goes directly into conservation. All the animal rights groups do is bitch, complain, and oh yes, promote useless animal death and suffering by disease and starvation. One thing you might consider is sending a quick note to Ryan Parry, the author of  the above article via the Mirror.co.uk mailbox , and thank him for the terrific link to the company that supplies these wonderful tours. With out his help, you may never have been able in investigate the possibility of enjoying your own hunting Safari)
Notes From Down Under
Reprinted from the Firearms Digest
 Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent, Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent; Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)! In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. (Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not ! and criminals still possess their guns!) While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed. There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly.  Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in "successfully ridding Australian society of guns." You won't see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the state Assembly disseminating this information. The Australian experience proves it. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens. Take note Americans, before it's to late!(Nothing surprising here. This has been the result everywhere in the world, where ordinary citizens have been disarmed by their governments. It's almost as if the politicians where getting a share of the criminals ill gotten gains. Or maybe they just feel a 'kinship' with other bottom feeders.)
The Failed Experiment: Gun Control in Canada, Australia, England and Wales .(pdf)
David Austin, head of the Canadian Firearms Centre, disagreed with the report, saying the registry helps public safety in general, not just crime. The rate of homicides involving guns in Canada has decreased since the introduction of gun registration, he said. But earlier this week, Austin did admit the costs of the program will hit $1 billion sometime in 2004 or 2005. The paper, authored by Simon Fraser University professor Gary Mauser, examines crime trends in Commonwealth countries that recently introduced firearm regulations by evaluating trends in total crime, not just firearm crime. The United States, where qualified citizens can carry concealed handguns, is used as the key point for comparison. The research found the homicide rate in the U.S. has fallen 42% since 1991. "Over the past decade, the rate of violent crime in Canada has increased while in the United States the violent crime rate has plummeted," the study said. The study concluded it was an illusion that gun bans protect the public.(Well, I guess that David Austin, a self serving bureaucrat with a paycheque and little kingdom to protect, is someone that should be listened to! NOT... To say the the rate of homicides involving guns in Canada has decreased since the introduction of gun registration, (remember handguns, the most widely used firearm for criminal activities have been registered for almost 70 years?) is simply astounding! As a matter of fact, it's simply astounding that you could even hear him seeing he has his head stuck so far up his ass!! With homicides in the U.S. falling 42% in the last decade largely because of concealed carry laws. Canadians will continue to be unarmed victims, blithely following flawed Liberal dogma that to fight back is bad, to surrender and be victimized is good. Remember the Canadian Liberal Motto: "Disarmed, Defenceless, Dead... It's the Law!" )