The Liberals built their $hit mountain in a figurative day, on a foundation of lies and sand. It can come down with a good hard shove if we have the gonads to demand someone give it a boot.
The CPC is going to take all kinds of $hit once they scrap the gun registry. They aren't going to be interested in dealing with the same Coalition for Gun Control public wailing and gnashing of teeth that we will see following the official announcement. You can bet their allies, including the CACP, CPA, etc...will pile on, along with Taliban Jack who is now the official Quebec representative in parliament, and you can bet he'll be even more stridently anti-gun than ever as a consequence.
I can guarantee that we get one kick at the can during this four year term. If all we ask for is an end to the long gun registry that is all we will get. If we go back, hat in hand asking for an end to ATTs, or an end to unilateral reclassification of firearms by the RCMP (You can bet all thos VZ-58s and CZ-858s are on their hit list) or an end to 12.6 classification of handguns or ask them to start issuing SAPs for owners with 12(x) long guns you can forget it.
We'll get the same response that groups looking to re-open the same-### marriage debate or abortion debate get. "That issue has been dealt with, the Conservative government of Stephen Harper supports firearms safety and their responsible use by legal gun owners. We have eliminated the long gun registry as part of this measure to ensure fairness and justice for Canada's law-abiding hunters and farmers."
Four years from now we might end up with a Jack Layton minority/majority government, or the Liberals might actually get their crap together. Do you honestly think that they won't then ban all semi-auto firearms, along with all military-style firearms and handguns? They're already on record as promising this and that was before they became the new BQ!
We get one good shot to right the last 18 years of Liberal gun laws, so we need to make the most of it. Otherwise we're going to find ourselves SOL.
Harper is NOT going to give us a bone here or a bone there, every 6 months or a year, piece-by-piece, BECAUSE, the Coalition for Gun Control and the opposition parties will be sure to make it seem like the Prime Minister intends on killing puppies and shooting our kids while they are at play in public parks everytime! C'mon guys!
Repeal C-68 and C-17, replace them with a Conservative penned Firearms Act and then wait....for nothing to happen. No blood bath, no massacres because machine guns are being transported through Canadian towns on their way to local gun ranges, no gangs of blood-crazy AK-47 armed Canadian gun owners going on crime sprees...nothing.
The gun grabbers will wail and cry for the cameras for a couple of months and then the media will move on to the next story and four years from now, most Canadians will respond like New Zealanders who chucked their gun control regime years ago. "What was all the fuss?" And then we'll have clear proof that regardless of what they own, law-abiding gun owners are not the problem and never have been BECAUSE we are LAW-ABIDING!
We have a GANG-CRIME problem in Canada, not a so-called "gun-crime" problem like the Liberals and Coalition for Gun Control have attempted to argue. Four years should be enough time to put done on that particular argument.
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