Martin to press Rice to help stop U.S gun smuggling(lawsuits against gun manufacturers)

canada.com/national/nationalpost/news ^ | Tuesday, October 25, 2005 | Alexander Panetta

[Brilliant]

If it's the guns' fault, then why blame the gun manufacturers?

[Brilliant]

"But I think he's got enough on his plate that he should be raising (with Rice), most importantly softwood lumber."



And that would be a good thing to raise. I can't understand why we have laws restricting the import of lumber.

[wvobiwan]

Maybe Toronto cops should actually investigate the murders and arrest the murderers, the guns didn't pull their own triggers.

Martin's liberals waste all their enforcement money on their lovely National Gun Registry.

[vbmoneyspender]

One federal source said the government could file lawsuits against gun manufacturers when they lose track of those weapons.

Canadians should be prepared for wide-ranging boycotts if this happens.

[sure_fine]

The prime minister said up to half the gun crimes in Canada involve weapons smuggled from the United States.

maybe, but all the gun crimes in canada, ARE IN CANADA

[Brilliant]

"If (gunmaker) Smith & Wesson says to us, 'Well, we're not responsible for tracking the weapons once they leave our factory' - that's not good enough guys," said the official.




Huh? What does he expect them to do? If they want to track them, they should do it themselves.

[coydog]

Martin is Canada's biggest embarrassment. He and the federal government have only themselves to blame for this. They have no moral standing to lecture the U.S. about policing its borders when they refused to help keep terrorists out after 9/11.

[cope85]

WTO

[Brilliant]

American gun manufacturers should not be doing business in Canada. They can't sue them in Canada, if they aren't in Canada.

[cripplecreek]

It's not our fault that Canadians want to shoot each other.

[quadrant]

There should be a trade off: we help Canada stop the smuggling of guns, Canada helps us with the smuggling of pot.
Specifically, Canada cracks down on pot growing and selling in British Columbia.

[muawiyah]

Canadians have this strange belief that gun smugglers take them through customs points on the border.

Irrespective of that, though, the impetus behind this particular effort is racism. Canadians appear to be most fearful of black men with guns~!!

They think we know something about how to control the situation.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I think that a free, armed people have a DUTY to help arm neighboring people who are disarmed by an oppressive government.

[vbmoneyspender]

They are talking about suing American gun manufacturers for guns that make their way into Canada. How does that translate into suing American gun manufacturers that are doing business in Canada?

[muawiyah]

THere are some who claim that the Canadian government has been diverting money out of their socialized medicine scheme into the unworkable gun registry boondoggle.

[cope85]

NAFTA

[cripplecreek]

Ive been saying all along that we can't have increasingly open borders with laws that don't mesh. America won't be pretty as a feudal Mexican / socialist Canadian crossbreed society.

[steel_resolve]

The official said Ottawa won't take kindly to the suggestion that the guns are being stolen: "If that's the case, start protecting your shipments. Get a Brinks truck."

Is this Canadian twit suggesting that guns are being stolen en masse and shipped North? What facts does he have to back up this assertion? What a preposterous statement! Only a fool would think that one could rip off a Smith and Wesson plant and make off with thousands of guns, to sell across the border. This is ridiculous. What a horse's ass.

[Sender]

The Gun Registry is not working, the Canadian customs attempt to detect guns is not working, and the three (3) guys who shot someone in Toronto last weekend probably were not working either. America's fault!