Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Tit for tat?
Vic Toews the new Justice minister is hinting that the gun registry is going to be scrapped and it may not be done through parliment. Apparently, the gist is that the Conservatives would use a little thing called an Order in Council and by pass debate. The Liberals and the NDP say that's not fair and the scrapping of the long gun registry should go through parliment - oh really? That's odd, why was it okay to use OIC's to modify the gun legislation before when it was just a money pit? Funny how they forget thier own treachery of the people through the use of the Undemocratic Order in Council when modifying the gun legislation. The Liberals put the OIC provision in and now the Conservatives are going to use it to streamline the gun registry in thier own unique way. In fact I dare say when they finish 'streamlining' the registry it'll be, well non-existant like it should've been in first place.
I'm left to wonder just exactly what was the purpose of the registry anyways? To keep us safe from guns? Nope, it's not done that, only 12-13% of the guns used in crime were registered. Was it to ensure that only the right people had guns, well then it was a giant failure from the get go, after 87-88% of all firearms murders were committed with guns of unknown origin and furthermore 50% of all murders were committed with handguns, a weapon that's been heavily restricted since 1936! So what was the real purpose of the long gun registry? I have two guess, the first is insidious - confiscation of all firearms in order to protect the government from it's people. And the other, a little more obvious and probable on at least a temporary scale - job welfare in depressed areas of the country. In a way this does make some sense - after all Miramichi is in job poor New Brunswick and they would be able to supply a form of employment to the people and buy votes with western money from the richer provinces at the same time! Only one problem, the Liberals needed to perpetuate the grand scheme and the $2 million baby turned into godzilla instead. Funny how people don't like paying for things that don't work!
So now the Conservatives are left with a somewhat tough situation, they're about to kill a whole bunch of jobs in New Brunswick in order to keep the MAJORITY of the country happy. But the Liberals & NDP are calling the use of the OIC written into the bill by the Liberals as undemocratic! Hmmmph - the damn bill was undemocratic to begin with, so quite frankly I don't know why they have a problem with it now!
I'm left to wonder just exactly what was the purpose of the registry anyways? To keep us safe from guns? Nope, it's not done that, only 12-13% of the guns used in crime were registered. Was it to ensure that only the right people had guns, well then it was a giant failure from the get go, after 87-88% of all firearms murders were committed with guns of unknown origin and furthermore 50% of all murders were committed with handguns, a weapon that's been heavily restricted since 1936! So what was the real purpose of the long gun registry? I have two guess, the first is insidious - confiscation of all firearms in order to protect the government from it's people. And the other, a little more obvious and probable on at least a temporary scale - job welfare in depressed areas of the country. In a way this does make some sense - after all Miramichi is in job poor New Brunswick and they would be able to supply a form of employment to the people and buy votes with western money from the richer provinces at the same time! Only one problem, the Liberals needed to perpetuate the grand scheme and the $2 million baby turned into godzilla instead. Funny how people don't like paying for things that don't work!
So now the Conservatives are left with a somewhat tough situation, they're about to kill a whole bunch of jobs in New Brunswick in order to keep the MAJORITY of the country happy. But the Liberals & NDP are calling the use of the OIC written into the bill by the Liberals as undemocratic! Hmmmph - the damn bill was undemocratic to begin with, so quite frankly I don't know why they have a problem with it now!
