Letter: Reader says gun control doesn’t work
Date: Sep 22, 2006 10:30 AM
PUBLICATION: The Daily Gleaner (Fredericton)
DATE: 2006.09.19
PAGE: C7
SECTION: OPINION

Reader says gun control doesn’t work

Wendy Cukier, head of the anti-gun lobby in Canada, opines that the
Dawson College shootings are “evidence that we can do better.” Wrong!

These latest shootings – make that every shooting since the passage of
the Firearms Act – are evidence of the complete and utter failure and
futility of all such so-called gun control laws.

If shooter Kimveer Gill obtained his firearms legally, it is evidence
that such laws don’t work; if he obtained them illegally, it is evidence
that such laws don’t work.

Gun control isn’t crime control. Such laws only affect those who are
inclined to obey the laws in the first place – exactly the wrong group
of people to be targeting.

If only one student or teacher had been legally able to carry a firearm
on their person for their defence – as is their sovereign right – then
Gill could have been stopped before he even started.

When will people smarten up and realize that gun control doesn’t work?

Bruce N. Mills
Dundas, Ont.

The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !