Peter Worthington of the good Toronto Sun (Sun Media) said something un-liberal today in his column (a column I almost always agree with). In fact he said tons of un-liberal things. That’s one of the reasons I like his column.
He said phrases like this:
“…allowing honest citizens to carry concealed weapons … might deter gun crimes here as it has in the U.S.”
“…gun violence and gun registration and how the two have little relevance to each other”
“…our society simply isn’t willing to do what works.”
…and: I think he was BANG on. In fact I had planned to zip over to the gun store this weekend.
Fight gun violence: Scrap the registry
How many times have we gone over this—gun violence and gun registration and how the two have little relevance to each other?
The media, politicians, police and public all agree that something must be done to halt the increasing tendency towards gun violence in Toronto—especially handgun violence, which has had strict regulations and controls since 1934.
[…] The most favoured deterrent is mandatory prison sentences for using a gun in a crime. How is that a deterrent when it isn’t implemented? Too often, the existing “mandatory” sentence for using a gun in a crime gets plea-bargained away. For shame.
Toronto’s political leaders wonder at how New York changed under Rudy Giuliani from being America’s most lethal and crime-ridden city into the safest city for its size. But our leaders dare not try Giuliani’s formula here.
Giuliani did it by cracking down on all lawbreaking—from littering, vagrancy and innumerable petty offences to murder. The payoff from fingerprinting and identifying minor criminals was that in major crimes, many fingerprints matched and the police had leads.
Meanwhile, in Toronto, beggars, squeegee people et al. are not only tolerated but practically revered. Not a great way to purge crime and criminals.
When gun violence becomes endemic, there is also the solution invoked by Florida, Texas and 40-plus other states—allowing honest citizens to carry concealed weapons.
To the surprise of everyone, gun crimes dropped precipitously in those states. Lowlifes considering shooting up a McDonald’s for kicks were deterred by the prospect that a Big Mac customer with a concealed gun might very well shoot them.
That would never wash in Canada, least of all in Toronto, but it might deter gun crimes here as it has in the U.S.
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No, “it would never wash in Canada” if liberals in media, academia, and every which way continue to drive the agenda in Canada, and liberals continue to successfully cling to power, and they all collectively keep their liberal heads buried in the sand; and if we don’t ever talk about it sensibly and at least pretend we want to solve the problem. Personally, I think it’s the best idea I’ve read all week and one I’ve held for a long time.
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