Re: “It’s time to ban semi-automatic weapons in Canada” Feb. 23
If Canadians want to set their hair on fire or drown in paranoia over the latest shooting event in the USA have at it, but there are much more serious challenges Canadians are facing.
In the recent letter asking the federal government to ban all semi-automatic weapons we have a kernel of the problem. The federal government, if they thought they could get away with it, would disarm Canadians completely. One need only look at the last political shooting event in Canada in which a reserve soldier was killed and an attack made on Parliament Hill (the weapon being a 30/30 Winchester lever gun) and the immediate imposition of Bill C-51, better referred to as the Canadian Patriot Act. It was passed into law so quickly by Canadian standards one would think it was pre-written and just waiting on the shelf.
There was such a public outcry over the magnitude of the abeyance of Canadians civil liberties contained within C-51 that the Liberals promised to revisit this legislation should they form government. The Liberals have been good on this promise and currently have a bill, C-59 working its way to becoming law. It is practically a carbon copy of the old C-51 legislation and stands as the previous act as a Canadian version of the Patriot Act. Now there is something to get all upset about if you value living in a non-incrementally advancing police state..
If Canadians do not protect their civil liberties you can bet that in the rush to globalism they will lose all of them that describe freedom for the public. Be honest with yourself and ask if you knew of this impending legislative act, C-59 and the consequences if it is passed into law without many serious amendments. This, remembering the purpose of the state is to enforce the dominance of elites, all the rest being propaganda, misdirection or obfuscation. Public liberties are hard fought for, never given and very easily lost if not defended.
Brad Fuller,
Nelson