scooter
06-17-2008, 09:19 AM
Re: Toronto Mayor Decries 'Heartbreaking' Slayings, June 14.
Thirteen years ago the United Kingdom, following a school shooting, implemented a David Miller-like total ban on handguns, across the whole country. That policy immediately became the Canadian gun control lobby's poster child. Thirteen years later, gun crime in the U. K. is at unprecedented levels, with some statistics matching or exceeding U. S. levels. And the Canadian gun control lobby no longer mentions the U. K. gun ban.
If you want to argue that target shooting is evil and that's why we need to confiscate all the legally owned guns, fine--I don't agree, but I respect your point of view. But if you're trying to package a ban as some great crime fighting measure, that's just nonsense designed to appeal to gun-ignorant urbanites, and David Miller needs to be called on it.
Damian Kanarek, Ontario and Quebec provincial pistol champion, Toronto.
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PUBLICATION: National Post
DATE: 2008.06.17
EDITION: National
SECTION: Letters
PAGE: A13
ILLUSTRATION: Black & White Photo: Karen Bleier, AFP, Getty Images / (See hardcopy for Photo Description) ;
BYLINE: Damian Kanarek
SOURCE: National Post
WORD COUNT: 150
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Taking aim at gun crime
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Thirteen years ago the United Kingdom, following a school shooting, implemented a David Miller-like total ban on handguns, across the whole country. That policy immediately became the Canadian gun control lobby's poster child. Thirteen years later, gun crime in the U. K. is at unprecedented levels, with some statistics matching or exceeding U. S. levels. And the Canadian gun control lobby no longer mentions the U. K. gun ban.
If you want to argue that target shooting is evil and that's why we need to confiscate all the legally owned guns, fine--I don't agree, but I respect your point of view. But if you're trying to package a ban as some great crime fighting measure, that's just nonsense designed to appeal to gun-ignorant urbanites, and David Miller needs to be called on it.
Damian Kanarek, Ontario and Quebec provincial pistol champion, Toronto.
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PUBLICATION: National Post
DATE: 2008.06.17
EDITION: National
SECTION: Letters
PAGE: A13
ILLUSTRATION: Black & White Photo: Karen Bleier, AFP, Getty Images / (See hardcopy for Photo Description) ;
BYLINE: Damian Kanarek
SOURCE: National Post
WORD COUNT: 150
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Taking aim at gun crime
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