How about a ban on socialists?

Toronto Mayor David Miller has launched an on-line petition to have the federal government legislate an outright ban on the ownership of handguns in Canada, believing if such a ban is instituted in Canada it would reduce the incidence of hand gun crimes.

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"Toronto continues to face unacceptable incidents of gun violence," said Mayor Miller. "These cannot be fully addressed without a total ban on handguns. Handguns are designed for one purpose and that is to kill people and have no place in our society. Statistics show that in jurisdictions with gun bans, supply is limited and shootings are less common.” I don’t know where hizzoner gets his statistics, but generally speaking, in the two jurisdictions that I know about the exact opposite has happened. Britain outlawed private ownership of guns in 1997. As a result gun crime nearly doubled in the years between 1999 and 2003. In December of 2002 the UN surveyed 20 of the world’s leading nations and found that England and Wales had the highest crime rate! Australia has had a similar experience. I have an idea that will reduce gun crime in Canada by at least 90%: institute a ban on socialists. The reason there is such a high incidence of gun crimes in Toronto is the policies advocated and instituted by people like David Miller and the socialist nutcases who support them. Instead of locking up or deporting those who commit gun crimes, socialists like to seek out “root causes” (that’s socialist terminology for lame excuses). These root causes include everything from the perpetrators growing up in poverty stricken, broken homes to the American gun culture to the fact that there are some Canadians that enjoy target shooting. We have more than enough legislation in Canada to deal with the problem of gun crime. What we do not have is the political will to enforce those laws to the letter. One of Toronto’s most recent shootings in Toronto’s Lawrence Heights neighborhood, which resulted in the death of a young man and the injury of five others, resulted in charges being laid against a 25-year old man who was out on bail at the time of the shooting. A second suspect, who apparently was the triggerman, is also being sought. Apparently he was out on bail at the time as well. We have also gotten into the habit of giving violent criminals a pass if they happen to be racial minorities, rather than deal with them in the same way with which every criminal should be dealt. We make excuses that range from everything to the perpetrators’ skin tones to lack of education, to poverty, to growing up in single-parent households, to drugs, to poverty, to society, to the school system that has “marginalized” them to phases of the moon. Oh, did I mention poverty? What we do not do is hold these individuals accountable. Instead, the socialists of Miller’s ilk want to ban handgun ownership in Canada. Canada already has the toughest gun laws in the western hemisphere and banning guns outright will do nothing to reduce the incidence of gun crime for the simple reason that the guns used in those crimes are illegally obtained, anyway. I think outlawing socialism would work much better as we could then start holding those who choose to break the law accountable. It’s amazing how quickly gun crimes would subside if we didn’t have socialists making excuses for the criminals. There would be numerous additional benefits, as well in the form an improved economy, lower taxes, a cleaner city and more sunshine. Okay, I made the last one up. The mayor’s petition highlights the degree to which the socialist brain trust in Toronto is ideologically bankrupt. The sooner we make being a socialist illegal, the sooner the incidence of gun crimes will abate.