COLUMN: GUN CONTROL WON’T PROTECT US FROM THE LOSERS
Date: Sep 18, 2006 8:46 AM
PUBLICATION: The Calgary Sun
DATE: 2006.09.17
EDITION: Final
SECTION: Editorial/Opinion
PAGE: 36
BYLINE: IAN ROBINSON, CALGARY SUN
WORD COUNT: 505

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GUN CONTROL WON’T PROTECT US FROM THE LOSERS

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Here he is again, the loser with a grudge and a gun slithering up from
the basement of a middle-class home where he fermented his immaturity,
anger and resentments to full and deadly potency “interacting” with like
creatures on the Internet.

His mom says he was “a good son.”

The neighbours’ comments — the banality of this would be screamingly
funny were it not for the horror of the event — amount to this: He was
quiet and kept to himself.

Aren’t they always.

His resentment and anger are perfectly understandable.

He’s a loser and losers spend their lives being angry and resentful.

It’s one of the reasons they’re losers. Life is something that happens
to them. They aren’t something that happens to life.

They aren’t achievers.

Worst of all, he knows he’s a loser, but failing the courage or will to
do something about it and actually change, he decides to write his name
in the pages of our times with gunfire, and paint a final statement with
the innocent blood of students — young people working toward successful
futures.

His victims are everything he is not.

The ultimate proof he’s a loser: His final statement, his final moments
in life are desperately unoriginal. Just another loser in a long list of
losers. The perpetrators of Columbine and Taber and all the others.

He was 25 years old.

Who among us is still so much an angry adolescent at 25?

And thanks to him, yet again, every man or woman in this country who has
ever offered up time and devotion to the mastery and pleasure of a rifle
or pistol is suspect.

Wendy Cukier, the mastermind behind Canada’s obscenely expensive and
ineffective gun registry — she’s president of the Coalition for Gun
Control — along with her Liberal Party lapdogs promised us more gun
control would make us safer.

Way to go, Wendy.

See, this loser jumped through all the hoops, complied with the gun
legislation and guess what?

He passed. His firearms were legally owned.

When questioned in the aftermath of this event, Cukier told CBC that:
“The argument for gun control has never been based on individual cases.
(It) has always been based on the general principle that if you have
adequate control on all guns, you reduce the chances that dangerous
people will gain access to them. You don’t eliminate them.”

Her statement is disingenuous to say the least.

“Disingenuous” is a fancy word for “lie.”

The entire gun control and registry debate in this country is, and
always has been, based on an individual case, that of the slaughter of
14 female students at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique in 1989 by another
loser with a grudge.

And it has been a debate that has demonstrated a barely concealed
hostility toward men in general and male firearms owners in particular.

In Canada, gun control wasn’t a public policy issue, it became — thanks
to the 1989 massacre with a male perpetrator and female victims — part
of the nation’s ongoing gender wars and was framed in precisely those
terms.

Anyone who objected to the content of the legislation — citing
practicality, lack of efficacy, civil rights — was written off as some
kind of psychopathic redneck whose idea of formal wear was to try to
iron a crease in his army surplus fatigue pants before plunking himself
down in front of Ted Nugent’s hunting show on the Outdoor network while
chowing down on a big ol’ bag of deep-fried pork rinds with his arm
around his sister.

That was a lie, too.

There is but a single lesson to be learned from this event.

The people who told you government regulation would protect you against
monster losers with grudges were lying.

And when they tell us in the coming days that just a little bit more
paperwork, just a few more tweaks to the legislation, that will make us
safer, they’re still lying.

The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !