RETIRED RCMP OFFICER: I have yet to meet an actual officer who does support it

RETIRED RCMP OFFICER: I have yet to meet an actual officer who does support it
Date: Nov 30, 2006 8:04 AM
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Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V10 #55

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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:08:19 -0400
From: "Jim Hill" <jjhill@ns.sympatico.ca>
Subject: Fw: The head of the National Rifle Association comes up to
Toronto to say gun owners everywhere face the same threat to their
rights

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Hill" <jjhill@ns.sympatico.ca>
To: <mark.bonokoski@tor.sunpub.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:55 PM
Subject: The head of the National Rifle Association comes up to Toronto
to
say gun owners everywhere face the same threat to their rights

Mark,

I just finished reading your article on Sandy Froman's speech to the
CSSA.
Thank you for a balanced view on this. We are so used to seeing almost
rabid blathering in certain media in Toronto. You were a breath of
fresh
air indeed!

I, as a retired RCMP officer with over 26 years experience can attest
that
contrary to Wendy Cukier's statements to the effect that this registry
has
the backing of Police officers across the country, it is, in fact, seen
as a
pain in the ass by actual police officers on the street. I have yet to
meet
an actual officer who does support it. Ms. Cukier makes much about the
Canadian Association of Chief of Police and the Canadian Professional
Policemen's Association representing thousands of police officers. They
in
fact do not enjoy the support she suggests as their positions are purely

political.
They mouth the words politicians want to hear in order to a.) hold their
position or b.) try to gain something else for their continuing support.

Any
time I have ever brought this matter up to serving policemen I
invariably
get the response that ($@%!*&) does not represent me or anyone I know.
This leads to the question "Why do you continue to elect him to this
position? The answer is usually "it gets him off the street!"

Background checks were not even done on the majority of applicants! If
they
had been I surely would have been able to find that at least one gun
owner,
of the many I have spoken to over the years would have been able to tell
me
that the reference persons had been contacted to ask about the
applicant. I
have yet to find one and I continue to ask every gun owner I come into
contact with. If the references had been checked, there are some who
would
have been denied the license. One person deliberately listed two
persons
with known criminal records for references, one of the references was
the
man who had broken into the Prime Minister's residence on Sussex Drive
when
Chretien was in power. The person got his license with no questions,
and
upon receiving his license, notified the media of the circumstances.

Even more telling for Possession and Acquisition License (PAL)
holders, we had to have our Spouse sign the application to indicate that
they were aware we were applying for this license. This leads me to the
second question. As this was a law that came about as a result of 14
women
being killed by Gamil Gharbi and it was supposed to make women safer,
one
would think that a simple phone call to the spouse of the applicant or a

visit to the
address to confirm that it was indeed her signature on the form and it
was
not signed under duress. This has never happened with any of the people
I
have spoken to.

If this was such a good law, why did I receive a certificate registering
a
firearm to me that I have never owned? I had never even heard of the
make
before. An Internet query verified it was a legitimate gun maker, yet
they
did not make firearms of the type described on the certificate and no
firearm bearing the serial number shown on the certificate had been
exported
to Canada. It turned out that the company makes black powder rifles
mostly.
I do not now, nor have I ever owned one in the past.

One might also ask Ms. Cukier, why two former RCMP Commissioners,
several
retired commissioned officers, Former Toronto Police Chief Julien
Fantino
along with many other retired and some serving police officers of all
ranks
so publicly opposed this law.

Could it be that they are sick to death of "feel good legislation"
catering
to particular groups in the hopes it will benefit them in any coming
elections.

Anyway, this went longer than I intended, so if you make it this far
down in
the e-mail Thanks again for an article that was refreshingly honest!

Jim Hill
3980 #2 Hwy.,
Fletchers Lake, N.S.
Home: 902-860-3006


"Do not be afraid of enemies; the worst they can do is to kill you. Do
not
be afraid of friends; the worst they can do is betray you. Be afraid of
the indifferent; they do not kill or betray. But only because of their
silent agreement, betrayal and murder exist on earth."
- -- Bruno Yasienski - "The Plot of the Indifferent" (1937)

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End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V10 #55




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