Letter: Gun control does not work

Letter: Gun control does not work
Date: Nov 30, 2006 8:45 AM
PUBLICATION: The Toronto Star
DATE: 2006.11.30
EDITION: ONT
SECTION: Letter
PAGE: A25
BYLINE:
WORD COUNT: 241

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Gun control does not work

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Liberals, Bloc join gun-control call, thestar.com, Nov. 28.

I continue to believe more strongly each time that I see it that reputed
"educated" and "intelligent" people continue to advocate and
push
solutions to problems that will not solve, let alone address, the root
causes of the issues in the first place.

I can appreciate the opposition wanting to score political points, yet
using the increasing amounts of criminal activity with illegal firearms
as a raison d'etre to ban legal firearms, when it has been clearly shown
in the past to be a complete failure, leads me to question the
intelligence and education of the Liberals and BQ.

Truly looking at the issue outside of party lines is necessary. The
Conservatives are not advocating relinquishing any control in regards to
guns, as is regularlly claimed by opposition groups.

The focus here is two-fold, firstly to rework the existing gun licensing
system to do a better job of preventing unstable people from getting
firearms and the second issue is criminal use of firearms which remain
unregistered and unregulated. How are tighter controls going to prevent
either? They aren't.

Continuing to strike at people who follow the law and exercise the
benefits of a free country is reprehensible and reminiscent of people
who desire a police state. And we know additional gun control still
misses the criminal use of illegal firearms, altogther. If we want to
stop needless, senseless deaths, we need to address criminal control,
not gun control.

Sean Bolli, Calgary, Alta.




The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !