Thursday, October 18, 2007

Liberal Party gun control legislation is based on fact.

FALSE. The anti-firearms ownership lobby live in a state of denial and have a blind faith that is akin to religion. Their rhetoric is characterized by scare mongering, propaganda and the frequent quotation of anonymous police sources. They totally ignore the failure of gun bans in other countries like the U.K. and Australia while at the same time making outrageous claims of success. They ignore examples of low crime in countries like Switzerland that has a much higher per capita ownership of firearms than Canada. They often quote the Chiefs of Police Assoc. as supporting the gun registry but ignore the fact that police from all levels and services have said the gun registry is unreliable and incomplete or erroneous thus rendering it dangerous to rely upon. There is not one example of the registry solving a crime!

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