Letter: Wendy"s flawed foundation

Letter: Wendy"s flawed foundation
Date: Apr 19, 2006 8:07 AM
PUBLICATION: The Ottawa Citizen
DATE: 2006.04.19
EDITION: Final
SECTION: News
PNAME: Letters
PAGE: A17
BYLINE: Brian Stewart
SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen
WORD COUNT: 120

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Flawed foundation

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In a Calgary Herald story about Tory MPs under pressure over the promise
to scrap the gun registry, I read this analogy used by Wendy Cukier of
the Coalition for Gun Control: "Why would you burn the house down
because you spent too much money on the renovations?" Well, if the house
is built on a toxic-waste dump all the renovations in the world won't
make it livable. The sad fact of the matter is the federal gun registry
is built on the flawed foundation that attacking law-abiding citizens
will have a direct impact on criminals.

Brian Stewart,
Orleans