"Gunslinging" Canadian MP Tries to Soften Gun Rules Even Further - With Remarkably Bad Timing.
Dear Editor,
And a bit before that, the Supreme Court had declared that they were so, firearms!
That pesky judgement obviously runs counter to the Harperites, who apparently believe that pellet guns are somehow necessary to make their version of the world safe for "Wild West capitalism."
That pesky judgement obviously runs counter to the Harperites, who apparently believe that pellet guns are somehow necessary to make their version of the world safe for "Wild West capitalism."
Justice Minister McKay (middle) poses with a pro-gun group. |
The police, meanwhile, have charged a young man with attempted murder in the Winnipeg incident, along with a reminder that, no, pellet guns indeed, are not toys!
Meanwhile, myself and my fellow voters in this District are faced with a laughable (if it weren't so tragic) prospect in the election campaign that already seems to have begun. The two leading candidates, Mr. Sopuck and the former Conservative member Inky Mark, now running as an independent, are already "duking it out" over who loves guns more!
That's right. Not youth unemployment. Not child poverty. Not missing or murdered indigenous women. Not our unrelenting, human assault on nature. Not climate change, nor the poisoning of our food by agricultural chemicals. But guns!
If this is the depth to which our political discourse has sunk in this country, I only have one thing to say....
If this is the depth to which our political discourse has sunk in this country, I only have one thing to say....
HELP!!!
Larry Powell lives in Neepawa, where he publishes
www.PlanetInPeril.ca
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