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Another Warning to America on Gun Control

Mar. 1, 2013 8:08am

Brian Lilley is host of Byline on Canada's Sun News Network.

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Lilley: Another Warning to America on Gun Control

People walk from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, for a march on Washington for gun control. (Photo: AP)

“All we need is sensible gun policy, like they have in Canada.”

That’s the type of argument that has appeared in columns and letters to the editor across the United States since the gun control debate reignited last December with the Sandy Hook massacre.

You won’t have your guns taken away, just registered with the government. As I said in early January, registration leads to confiscation. That’s been the Canadian experience anyway as police and politicians decided that certain guns were bad and needed to be surrendered.

How did they get law abiding gun owners to surrender their rifles without compensation? They are all in the registry and failure to comply means jail time.

Now Missouri and several other states are following that lead and considering bills that will force legal and law abiding firearms owners to surrender their rifles or head to the slammer.

Will these bills pass? Chances are they won’t, but if I were an American gun owner I wouldn’t count on legislators doing the right thing.

There is also the possibility that even if these gun confiscation bills do not pass they could change the discussion. Confiscating guns would have been unthinkable to most Americans until recently, now with legislators discussing laws to that effect, confiscation has gone from unthinkable to radical and could soon become acceptable.

These bills will move the discussion along in the direction of more “sensible gun control” in ways that Americans once would have rejected.

Essentially politicians and the police will soon be harassing gun owners – have you heard of the proposal to allow police to search the homes of gun owners?

In addition to the gun registry, which came as the result of a horrific school shooting, Canada also instituted several other “sensible” gun control policies including licencing and transportation permits.

In Toronto recently a licenced gun owner, one deemed safe enough to be granted a handgun licence which is tough to get in Canada, actually had to take the police to court to try and force them to let him transport his guns to the range. Without this extra piece of paper it is illegal to move the guns from your home.

Yep, that’s right, forget a simple background check. In Canada you need a background check, a safety course, a licence and a hall pass to use your guns. Because in essence that’s what this document, the “Authorization to Transport,” amounts to – a glorified hall pass.

Meanwhile on February 8th, Ian Thomson, a man who lives within 25 miles of Buffalo, NY, was given his guns back by police. Why did he lose them? He fired warning shots at four men who were firebombing his home and yelling out that they would kill him.

After firing off the warning shots and putting out the fire with his own hose, Thomson waited for police and fire officials to show up. He was promptly charged for several offences, including pointing a firearm and careless use of a firearm. A public outcry saw those charges dropped but Thomson still faced charges for what the prosecutor deemed unsafe storage.

Since then he’s been cleared of those charges but not before facing more than 2 years of legal hell and racking up lawyers bills he cannot afford. Oh, and when he was told he would get back his guns the police had confiscated for the duration of his trial he was forced to get a special “Authorization to Transport” in order to pick them up.

This is what passes for sensible gun control in Canada.

This America is your future unless you stand your ground.

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Comments (10)

CommonSenseTalk
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 10:18pm
They will take our guns one house at a time. No one will fight the police as they move house to house. They will always have a reason to take the guns, drugs, registration, mental illness, something. The police and media can say what ever they want to.

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anniedogdoll
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:02pm
With new software provided by DHS, Missouri Department of Revenue is now providing personal information to the Federal government and a third party for every person who is given a concealed carry permit. This is against MO law, but happening anyway. We are being registered against our will and without our knowledge.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/03/breaking-mo-dept-of-revenue-working-with-dhs-on-backdoor-gun-registration/

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PA PATRIOT
Posted on March 3, 2013 at 9:07pm
Be Clear, Be Steadfast and Be Ready
Please read the following

http://dcclothesline.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/if-they-come-for-your-guns-do-you-have-a-responsibility-to-fight/

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anothercomment
Posted on March 3, 2013 at 4:40pm
The most bizarre point of this entire issue it’s not really about gun control, it about controlling the people of the United States.
This man (Obama) is frightening, and is ruling by Executive Orders. This type of action is designed to be used in emergencies when the House and Senate are not in session, yet he is by-passing this branch, openly and with impunity.
What is far more disturbing is none of these people, elected to represent ‘We the People’ are pushing back. Not a word, not a bill, they are all looking the other way, at their desk, or are disturbingly absent.
And ‘O’ actually believes the honest, law abiding citizens that are watching this train wreck occurring in Washington are going to surrender what they legally purchased with their own money?
To our representatives: do not give into an inch, a sentence, even a word of this legislation. It will be the removal of the cornerstone to all of our Constructional rights and amendments, and will weaken the foundation of our country allowing the entire system to easily collapse

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wilbstal
Posted on March 3, 2013 at 9:47am
Liberals can change their minds on what the 2nd Amendment says but they cant change the wording. Shall not be infringed, if they do they get shot

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NoSleeper
Posted on March 3, 2013 at 5:15am
The author is correct, especially about shifting the debate…anti-gun nuts throw out an extreme left position, knowing there is little chance of it passing…but it makes future proposals of registrations, bans, permits, etc., seem less extreme. The goal is not to take your guns (yet) but to shift the discussion and acceptance to the left.

Do not let your guard down! The only gun control you need is a sharp eye and a steady hand.

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M24
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 6:57am
warning shots waste of bullets

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wilbstal
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:14pm
shooting back is the only defence that works if you die during that time try to make sure you take some of them Commie bastards with you, they will tire of this if each time they lose a team member or more. familys wont like it either on both sides. This is life and thats how to treat Commie bastards that like infringing on 2nd Amend rights

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tonypro
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:29pm
“” now with legislators discussing laws to that effect, confiscation has gone from unthinkable to radical and could soon become acceptable. “”

Confiscation will NEVER become acceptable. Period!!!!

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oldduffer
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:35pm
They are committing a direct Constitutional Illegality by trying to change the 2nd. Amendment to their way of thinking.

Full knowledge of Future Guns by Continental Congress.
“The Puckle gun” 1718 flintlock revolver cannon to fire
9 rounds before reloading.
In 1777 Phily. Gunsmith offered Continental Congress a
“new improved gun” 20 shots in 5 seconds automatically.
Turned down for expense reasons. Congress requested instead
Flintlock rifles 8 shot auto. Too expensive.
2nd. Amendment adopted on December 15, 1791, along with
the rest of the Bill of Rights.
Automatic guns were in existence when this Amendment was
written. So much for not taking automatic weapons into consideration when written.

Permission given for distribution of this article “dso.”

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