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Responsible gun owners will not rest until law is gone
May 15, 2011 - 1:33am
http://www.stoneycreeknews.com/news/article/235390
Responsible gun owners will not rest until law is gone
Letters
May 11, 2011
I would like to remind readers, and our newly elected representatives of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's actual promise to law-abiding Canadian gun owners:
"I was and still am in total agreement with the statement made in the House of Commons by former Reform Leader Preston Manning on 13 June 1995:
"Bill C-68, if passed into law will not be a good law. It will be a blight on the legislative record of the government, a law that fails the three great tests of constitutionality, of effectiveness and of democratic consent to the governed. What should be the fate of a bad a law? It should be repealed ..."
Bill C-68 [The Firearms Act] has proven to be a bad law and has created a bureaucratic nightmare for both gun owners and the government.
As Leader of the Official Opposition, I will use all powers afforded to me as Leader and continue our party's fight to repeal Bill C-68 and replace it with a firearms control system that is cost effective and respects the rights of Canadians to own and use firearms responsibly."- Stephen Harper, January 2002
Responsible and respectable law-abiding gun owners will not rest until every vestige of this onerous and draconian law is obliterated into oblivion.
Bruce Mills
Hamilton
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Interesting. I doubt it though. There's a huge difference between scrapping the LGR and dumping C-68. No?
And?
And!
C-68 should never have come in in the first place.
Perhaps with the demise of the Liberals we can make an effort to depolarize the issue and to come up with an appropriate system of firearms regulation that provides for public safety without demonizing folk in rural Canada.
Malcolm, you're speaking heresy! Don't you know that the gun control issue is needed so the Liberals and Conservatives can divide urban and rural people for political advantage? How can political insiders benefit from various interest groups finding a common solution they can live with?
Oh dear. Another gun control thread. I'm moving to Europe.
Is the long arm of the gun lobby there?
WHICH European country?? England, where the police carry only a stick? Switzerland, where you MUST own a gun??
Don't think you've escaped just yet.
You must own a gun in Switzerland because you MUST be in their military.