Agree more than a little with ol' Sam on this one
The Tragedy yesterday was indeed that, and a rather Serious one. Takes an awfully sick & twisted mind to do what this Eh-H did.
My heart goes out to those effected by this madman's actions.
And... No Surprise the bleeding hearts immediately jumped back on the gun control bandwagon as
The Root Of All Evils. They constantly look for any method to bring their message to bear, and this atrocious act played right into their hands.
Read this entire thread, and all I can say to those who seized the opportunity to cry for further firearm restrictions on this forum is: be Goddamn Glad you live in Canada! A place where is there actually NO need for restrictions above and beyond what we already have in place. And, unfortunately a place where the saying "
When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" gets played out on nearly a monthly basis.
Handguns have been under extremely tight control for many decades here. And "assault" type weapons have been under even more extreme control for several decades now. To me, a firearm owner, these restrictions are beyond "
comfortable", for I sincerely do not wish to see our streets bear witness to the
High Noon debacles that are increasingly far too common south of the line.
That said, anyone who thinks Canadian Firearm Restrictions negatively effect criminal actions better give their head a
Serious SHAKE! The
ONLY people effected are those that choose to follow The Rules. Honest Citizens.
Criminals have well proven incredible inventiveness in procuring the exact type of firearms these restrictions are designed to keep off our streets. Unfortunately they always will. Even more unfortunately, our so-called
Justice System routinely treats violations of our Firearms Regulations with a mere slap on the wrist offering little or no deterrent to those who choose to flaunt them. Further restrictions here
Will NOT change nor effect that in any way shape or form. Any that think otherwise are simply deluding themselves. You want change? Then get on with the
ONLY thing that will bring about any positive changes - that being making the ownership and use of illegal weapons accountable under our System of Justice. Make the penalty Fit The Crime! No more kiddy gloves when it comes to these types offenses! Twenty year minimums for their ownership, Thirty year minimums for their use!
Ahhhhh.... but that takes serious concerted effort to impart, and serious commitment to see it through. Far easier I guess to jump on the bandwagon and cry for more restrictions on the Honest Owners. An abject lesson in futility.
The situation across the line is entirely different. There, the opinion that
God, Gun's and Guts made America What It Is still very much rules the day. And given the Power of the NRA and the like, substantial change is likely a long ways off. Until the current mindset that a
gun in every pocket can be swayed, their situation is entirely unlikely to change.
Methinks reelfast had a few good starting points:
And while I tend to agree with what he said, again, such changes aren't overly likely in the immediate future.
Why? Well once again reelfast hit the nail right on the head:
aYup. And changing that particular situation is much akin to
Mission Impossible. That said, we can Hope that it doesn't take many more of such atrocities as we witnessed yesterday to start the ball rolling...
As for Canada, methinks we already have enough "
control" already on the books. The only thing that could improve upon that would be if our Justice System starts to take violations thereof as seriously as they should be.
Cheers,
Nog - An Honest Firearm Owner and Proud Of It!