Thin Edge Of The Wedge......

.....and I would give it my 100% support if it would be extended to inspection of homes of unregistered gun owners.

Inspections of private homes to commence
Friday, December 07, 2007 at 12:43 PM
Comments: 22

The Ontario government will begin entering homes looking for evidence of laws being broken.

In order to ease the people of this province into this new reality, the process will be done in phases.

First, only elderly gun owners will be expected to submit to a search.

After that? Who knows? Once we've established that public safety trumps individual rights, it won't be too hard to extend this principle to anything that the government deems dangerous or risky. Or for that matter, to anything that runs counter to the public interest.

As a police spokesperson said, any steps should be welcome by the public.

And here I was only welcoming constitutionally legal steps.

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