Since Toronto is usually on the leading edge of simplistic, socialist policies, it’s in everyone’s best interest to pay attention to David Miller’s proposed ban on guns and recreational gun clubs – or as the National Post calls him, "the ignorant demagogue" who became "mayor of Canada’s biggest city…"
Decreeing bans seems to be the preferred plan of action with left-leaning politicians – If you ban it, it is done.
But not quite. Because as the Post editorial points out, this experiment failed badly in Britain:
In Britain, after the tragic 1996 elementary school shootings at Dunblane, Scotland, all private handgun ownership was banned and all handguns confiscated. Even England’s Olympic shooters, for a time, were forced to shuttle across the Channel to France for practice. Since then, though, New Scotland Yard and the Home Office estimate that the inventory of illegal handguns in Britain has expanded by three million. Gun crime has nearly doubled. And many cities now have more gun crime than comparable U. S. cities. Police refer to Manchester as Gunchester.
Yes, heaven forbid that David Miller should actually try to face the problem square on with increased police patrols in problem areas, and perhaps recognize the special challenges of certain ethnic communities that seem to have accepted a lack of paternal responsibility as the norm.
But what this knee-jerk problem-solving technique really does is hurt the law-abiding private citizens that actually follow the rules. People like reader Lisa , whose family is directly affected by this nonsensical approach by His Blondness . Lisa has a great post up today about this issue and some of her family members have been interviewed by the Star .
Sadly, today there was another fatal shooting outside a Toronto school, and you can bet David Miller will be using this latest incident as further evidence that Toronto should be jumping on the gun BAN dwagon.
Because political correctness demands that you never really face the problems. – you just make sure you are seen to be making decisions – even if they’re just bandaids that can’t possibly stop all the hemorrhaging of human life.
- And worse yet if you place those bandaids over your eyes, you can’t see the real problems.
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Thursday Update : Getting on the ban wagon – Michael Den Tandt (Sun):
…Mayor David Miller wants all guns banned. Also he would outlaw gun-making, ammunition, and target-pistol ranges. It doesn’t matter to him that most gun crime in Toronto is perpetrated by criminals, wielding illegally-obtained handguns. Guns are bad. Ban them…
Friday Update : This is definitely worth a read – Toronto wonders what’s happening to the tourists by Girl on the Right.
