Cdn-Firearms Digest Thursday, May 29 2008 Volume 11 : Number 483 In this issue: Re: Miller's 'City State' EDITORIAL: "The Toronto mayor does not appear particularly dim..." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 11:33:16 -0400 From: "mred" Subject: Re: Miller's 'City State' - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Birch" To: Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:17 AM Subject: Miller's 'City State' > Boycotting Trawna as a strategy? It is to laugh .... westerners have been > boycotting the place for decades; quelle difference? > > The immigrant population negates any such actions. It merely creates > another "solitude" within the country, along with Quebec. > > TB Dont laugh, its the American tourist who spends most of their money in TO and thats the ones we should target. And theyre the ones the tourist ads are directed at. You can forget the Chinese and Japanese tourist as all they're interested in is Niagara Falls. Take a trip down there in tourist season and you think youre in the far east. If we can get the NFA and the JPFO to encourage their members to boycott TO then we will have won the battle, if not the war. ed/on ------------------------------ Date: Thu, May 29, 2008 10:56 am From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 2" Subject: EDITORIAL: "The Toronto mayor does not appear particularly dim..." PUBLICATION: WINNIPEG FREE PRESS DATE: 2008.05.29 PAGE: A12 SECTION: Editorial Leaders WORD COUNT: 480 - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gun bylaw a dud - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is only the dimmest of politicians who could honestly believe that passing laws banning the possession of legally owned firearms by law-abiding citizens for legitimate purposes will somehow reduce gun crime in major cities and across the nation. Most politicians are not particularly dim -- they only appear to be on occasion -- so the explanation for the continuing demand for such laws by political leaders at every level of government must lie somewhere else. As Toronto Mayor David Miller demonstrated this week, it lies in the political desire to be seen to be doing something to combat violent crime whether it is useful or not, a desire reinforced by the knowledge that outside the criminal world, there are not nearly as many fire-arms aficionados -- hunters, gun collectors, target shooters -- as there are eastern urbanites afraid of guns in any form. The explanation of Canadian gun control legislation, in short, lies in the political knowledge that in Ontario and Quebec it is a certain vote getter. It does not appear to matter that the federal gun control registry, implemented at cost of more than $2 billion, cannot be shown to have prevented a single violent crime, or that its only real effect, aside from wasting taxpayers' money, has been to turn peaceful, law-abiding gun owners into angry unwitting criminals. The Toronto mayor does not appear to be particularly dim -- in fact, he appears to be an acute observer of his constituents' concerns, and gun violence is a big one in his city. The failure of the federal gun registry does not bother him, nor does the fact that his proposed bylaw to make all handguns, whether they are owned by collectors or target shooters, illegal in Toronto has little support among city police. Police are uniquely placed to gauge the effectiveness of such laws and in Toronto many of them see no remedy for gun violence in such a regulation because most handguns used in crimes there come illegally from the United States, something that Mr. Miller's bylaw is powerless to stop. This might be dismissed as simply yet another bit of meddlesome nonsense emerging from Canada's largest fantasy factory, but if it passes into Toronto's bylaws, it will almost certainly also affect real life in other cities, where legitimate gun-owners have every reason to fear further encroachments on their rights by diminishing levels of government anxious to give the appearance of doing something about a problem that they have no idea how to cope with on any practical level. Gun crime may be always a local problem, but its solution is to be found at the federal level in a criminal code that actually targets gun crime, not in the bylaw books of misguided municipalities. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V11 #483 *********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator's e-mail address: mailto:drg.jordan@sasktel.net List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca FAQ list: http://www.canfirearms/Skeeter/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://www.canfirearms.ca CFDigest Archives: http://www.canfirearms.ca/archives To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next four lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".)