Bruce Mills’ Letter: Guns and rights
Date: Jul 31, 2006 9:20 AM
PUBLICATION: GLOBE AND MAIL
DATE: 2006.07.31
PAGE: A12 (ILLUS)
BYLINE: BRUCE N. MILLS
SECTION: Letter to the Edit
EDITION: Metro
DATELINE: Dundas, Ont.
WORDS: 202

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Guns and rights

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Patricia Robertson hates guns — plain and simple (Can Harper Be Tough
On Rural Crime, Too? — July 29). It doesn’t take long for her to show
her true colours with her anti-gun screed: all guns are bad, and anyone
who disagrees with her is a redneck, knuckle-dragging, regressive
troglodyte.

From the “myth of bucolic rural splendour” and the “ailing farm
economy,” Ms. Robertson nicely segues into the anti-gun lobby’s “big
lie” that Canadians don’t have a right to keep and bear arms.

This is an absolute falsity. This inherent, innate, and sovereign right
of all human beings has never been expressly extinguished by any statute
or other act of Parliament of which I am aware. And you can bet your
bottom dollar that if there were, the gun grabbers would have been
shouting about it and waving it around from the rooftops a long time
ago.

The sad fact is that the anti-gun lobby’s “vision” of gun control
just
doesn’t work. It can’t because it targets exactly the wrong group of
people: law-abiding gun owners. Gun control isn’t crime control — it is
only about divesting law-abiding citizens of their rights.