Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Stockwell Day right on target
The Conservative federal government is targeting criminals and smugglers; not the law-abiding. It's the least politically opportunistic approach and completely counter to the contemporary-liberal mindset to reducing crime. It is therefore much more likely to actually achieve a reduction in crime and illegal gun ownership.
A handgun ban isn't the answer to Toronto's gun violence, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day insists.
"Studies in a variety of jurisdictions around the world show that if you want to see gun crime reduced you've got to go after the criminals," Day said...
He said a Canada-wide handgun ban would divert limited police resources to "going after innocent firearm owners." [...]
The Conservatives are working to fight gun crime, Day said, pointing to funds allocated for hiring new RCMP and municipal police officers and tightening up laws for gun-related crimes.
The government is also putting money into tightening up cross-border gun smuggling, he said.
"This is where our officers work in conjunction with U.S. officers to vigorously go after gun smuggling which we know is a concern and a problem," Day said.
"We want to go after the people involved in the smuggling.
"We say this is the way to see gun crime reduced."
Pragmatic. Sensible. Just.
Thank God someone in government is thinking clearly about this issue and not reflexively proposing to punish law-abiding gun owners, as is the apparent prediliction of Toronto Mayor David Miller.
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