It’s a pretty good response to being called a single issue voter.
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So you are asking us to give up ten thousand dollars
The Liberals intend to run deficits forever. Currently that's $18,695 for every man woman and child in Canada. (
https://www.debtclock.ca/ )
It used to be that a nations debt, even as a result of war, was paid off within 20 years so as to not saddle the next generation with this generations problems and circuses. The Liberals intend to not only saddle this generation, but the unborn.
Sooner or later GDP will fall, and the irresponsible Liberals will scream that debt is a problem and that it's Harper's and Doug Ford's fault.
People accuse me of being a single-issue writer, a single-issue thinker, and a single-issue voter, but it isn't true. What I've chosen, in a world where there's never enough time and energy, is to focus on the one political issue which most clearly and unmistakably demonstrates what any politician — or political philosophy — is made of, right down to the creamy liquid center.
Make no mistake: all politicians — even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership — hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician — or political philosophy — can be put.
If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash — for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything — without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.
f a politician won't trust you, why should you trust him? If he's a man — and you're not — what does his lack of trust tell you about his real attitude toward women? If "he" happens to be a woman, what makes her so perverse that she's eager to render her fellow women helpless on the mean and seedy streets her policies helped create? Should you believe her when she says she wants to help you by imposing some infantile group health care program on you at the point of the kind of gun she doesn't want you to have?
On the other hand — or the other party — should you believe anything politicians say who claim they stand for freedom, but drag their feet and make excuses about repealing limits on your right to own and carry weapons? What does this tell you about their real motives for ignoring voters and ramming through one infantile group trade agreement after another with other countries?
Makes voting simpler, doesn't it? You don't have to study every issue — health care, international trade — all you have to do is use this X-ray machine, this Vulcan mind-meld, to get beyond their empty words and find out how politicians really feel. About you. And that, of course, is why they hate it.
-- L. Neil Smith, "Why Did it Have to be ... Guns?"
Can you demonstrate one time or place, throughout all history, where the average person was made safer by restricting access to handheld weapons?
-- http://blog.joehuffman.org/2004/12/15/JustOneQuestion.aspx
"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of."
-- Suzanna Gratia Hupp