Quote From: ktdownes
sorry sir, but in Canada you can't go out to the local Walmart and buy a gun. They aren't available at every building we walk into. The guns in Canada belong to Policemen and Mounties- which means that we have certified, worthy people that aren't quick to rush to any fatal decisions. Regular citizens DONT have guns, just for the hell of having one. America has a gun-control problem. Your knowledge, or lack of is very ignorant towards the issues in your own backyard.
GOD BLESS CANADA
I thought that you might be interested in the following. Seems Canada is not the Eden you all would like to portray it. You might want to come down off your high horse and face facts. READ THIS:
After Saturday’s fatal car-to-car shooting in the same troubled area of north Toronto that has also seen a deadly school shooting and three teens killed during a high-speed chase with police in the past three weeks, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty called on Ottawa to ban handguns. We recognize that Mr. McGuinty and his government are up for re-election this October, so the premier must appear to be doing something about crime in Canada’s largest city. But why is it the first instinct of most liberal-left politicians to go after the property of law-abiding citizens when the problem is so obviously the actions of criminals? Confiscating the former will have no impact on the latter.
Toronto police report that a silver Mercedes SUV was used by the criminals who shot and killed Mr. Hierro-Saez. Why not call for a ban on Mercedes SUVs? Just as it’s true the killers couldn’t have shot their victim without guns, neither could they have caught up to him without a powerful vehicle. It makes no more sense to take away the one-million target-shooting and collectors’ guns of Canada’s 400,000 legitimate handgun owners, just because similar guns are used in brutal crimes, than it does to ban luxury SUVs because they are sometimes used by criminals as getaways cars or assault vehicles.
The roots of gun crime in Canada are not all that different from those in the United States: the failed experiment in public housing (which concentrates members of dysfunctional subcultures in one area of the city), welfare dependence, drug addiction (and the lucrativeness of the drug trade), father-absent homes, dropout rates and so on. As such, gun crime will not be eliminated by wishing it away, by waving a magic wand and banning all handguns, for instance. Gun crime here will decrease only when Canadian police and politicians, as their American counterparts before them, start treating it as a crime, rather than a social problem.