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 From: justaskmeforit@shaw.ca 
  
 Hear Hear 
  
 pcourterelle wrote: 
  
 > 
 > You have an uncanny knack for missing the point and misconstruing 
 > information. The above speaks to your desperate need to eliminate 
 individual 
 > choice and responsibility in Canada. It says nothing but the efficacy of 
 > policies to ban handguns while the border is porous and the flow of 
 handguns 
 > from the United States is uncontrollable. 
 > 
 > You pick and choose only those comments that support your paternalistic 
 > position. Did you miss the one by a spokesman for the Edmonton police force 
 > who said the proposed ban is "...just stupid. I don't see that this would 
 > make any difference whatsoever. The legal gun owners aren't the problem. I 
 > can't recall the last time a legally registered gun owner committed a crime 
 > with it. It's very, very rare." Or the quotation about how the guns used in 
 > Toronto over the summer could not be traced back to legal owners, meaning 
 > they were illegal weapons to start with. 
 > 
 > I would have considerably less issue with the Liberal handgun ban if the 
 > Liberal government had, over the past 12 years, steadily made improvements 
 > to control the illegal flow of arms into Canada. It is only fair that 
 > Parliament cleans up its own house before it cleans up Canadians'. I favour 
 > tight regulations and enforcement of legal firerarm owners and users. There 
 > should be stiff penalties if a registered owner has their gun stolen or 
 > lost. No question. 
 > 
 > The purpose of the ban is illogical: prevent law-abiding, conscientious 
 > Canadians from owning a handgun for the sole purpose of preventing 
 criminals 
 > from stealing them. You penalize the good to prevent the bad from doing 
 > something. If you'll excuse the extremity, it's like saying the government 
 > should ban children from going outdoors to prevent kidnapping and 
 abuctions. 
 > 
 > pc 
 > 
 > 
  
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