Garry Breitkreuz is a Canadian MP (Member of Parliment)….
This is punishing those who misuse firearms and leaving law abiding gun owners alone….. unlike gun control

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>From: “Breitkreuz, Garry – Assistant 2″ <[email protected]>
>Sent: Mar 5, 2008 10:03 AM
>To: “Breitkreuz, Garry – Assistant 1″ <[email protected]>
>Subject: Column: Crime bill makes it tougher for offenders using guns to get bail
>
>PUBLICATION: The Winnipeg Sun
>DATE: 2008.03.05
>EDITION: Final
>SECTION: Editorial/Opinion
>PAGE: 9
>BYLINE: ROBERT MARSHALL
>WORD COUNT: 486
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>Tories target snake head
>Crime bill makes it tougher for offenders using guns to get bail
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>Last week, despite some chest-thumping in the Liberal-dominated Senate,
>the Conservative crime bill made its way through the upper chamber and
>took a giant step closer to implementation. The bill puts into action
>what Canadians of all stripes have been demanding for years — a tougher
>stance on crime to discourage those bent on a life of misdeeds. And a
>steeper price to pay for those who are not unnerved by the law.
>
>Part of the bill tackles the thorny issue of bail for those who use
>firearms to achieve criminal goals. Until now legal presumption has been
>that bail should be generously doled out to society’s menaces, including
>gangsters with guns. Not anymore. That’s a good thing. Think about this
>case from B.C.
>
>DRUG NETWORK
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>In January 2005, Jethinder Singh Narwal was part of a significant
>cross-border drug network. Such networks use tactics of unlawful force,
>unlawful confinement and more unlawful force for the health and
>continued success of the enterprise. Those crimes often involve
>firearms.
>
>And so with a gun, Narwal and others were involved in the kidnapping,
>savage beating and extortion of an individual. In time the hostage
>managed to free himself and run. Narwal hotly pursued his prey and
>demanded that his fellow thug shoot the victim, who dodged death by
>diving through the very public drive-in window of a local A & W.
>
>An investigation was launched and Narwal was arrested.
>
>And bail was granted despite the clear risk to the public and
>entrenchment in a multi-million dollar underworld.
>
>With little surprise a new batch of victims were hatched in the wake of
>that bail. Continuing his role in the drug empire, in April 2005 Narwal
>took a leading role in another kidnapping, severe beating and threats of
>a painful death all designed to further the extortion of more than half
>a million dollars from a second victim. Oh yeah, a gun was used too.
>
>A week later in May 2005, a third victim. Another kidnapping. Another
>half million dollar extortion. More beatings. More guns. More public
>risk.
>
>The police eventually caught up with Narwal.
>
>Again.
>
>The courts were less generous this time. Narwal had already made a
>monkey out the system. Bail denied.
>
>VIOLENT SPREE
>
>Right now this country is littered with similar stories. Narwal’s
>subsequent and violent spree is just one example of a criminal’s
>penchant and opportunity being the snake’s head that the Conservatives
>want to cut off.
>
>This new legislation is trying to put a cork in the aptly coined
>catch-and-release programs to which policing agencies nation-wide
>frustratingly offer their daily participation.
>
>Narwal was eventually convicted and sentenced accordingly. But in a
>repulsive twist he was still able to stick it to the system. Despite
>violating his original bail, in circumstances of extreme violence that
>put the public at substantial risk, he was able to claim the
>all-but-standard and absurd 2-for-1 credit for the time he then spent
>cooling his jets in remand. That shaved almost two years off his
>sentence.
>
>That 2-for-1 nonsense is a whole other story for another time. But let’s
>hope this government is able to do something about it as well. Sooner
>than later.
>
>And if that means 60% of the chest-thumping senators have to stay home
>or abstain like they did with this latest crime bill, who cares?