In the wake of the Yonge Street shooting of Toronto teen Jane Creba on Boxing Day in 2005, then-Liberal Leader Paul Martin vowed a Liberal government would ban handguns.
"Paul Martin and the Liberal party stood up in the last election and said it's time to end the ownership of handguns in this country."
Federal leaders lukewarm on handgun ban plea
- Matt Gurney: No one 'needs' a gun. And no one 'needs' an iPod.
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This column has been a long time coming, but it took a school shooting, irate radio talk show callers, and more babble from the Delusional Duo of McGuinty and Miller to finally bring it to life. As no doubt everyone is the city is now aware, Toronto had a banner week for shootings, capped off by a dramatic lockdown of four North York schools after a student was shot in the chest just outside the Bendale Business and Technical Institute.
As soon as I heard the news that a student had been shot, I reflected back to the last federal election campaign, which was also marred by the shooting of a Toronto youth; Jane Creba, fifteen, was killed by a stray bullet while shopping near crowded Dundas Square on Boxing day of 2005. Paul Martin quickly made a national handgun ban a plank in his party's unsuccessful platform, while Stephen Harper insisted - as he still does - that Canada's current gun control measures are sufficient, and that the problem of gun crime is better addressed by taking action in other areas: tightening bail conditions, and tougher sentences for those guilty of a gun crime.
1 comment:
Ah. There we have it. You are a delusional rose colored glasses wearing tory ass kisser.
No it wasn't Martin you fool. Harper jumped right on that soap box and total political hay out of the crime issue, and the bills were not watered down like you insinuate.
After my questions (which you never published because you didn't or couldn't answer) you come out with this lying piece of trash.
Ignorance, is truly bliss isn't old boy eh?
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