When a widow in her 70s heard about the provincewide gun amnesty running this month, she was reminded of an unusual weapon her husband had stashed in the attic.And now that's one less armed little old lady on the streets.
We can all breathe easy now.
Uh, excuse me, I have a question..
ReplyDeleteWhat the HELL is a
"semiautomatic submachine gun"?!?!?
Is EVA SALINAS a complete idiot, or just a propagandist?
ahhhh ... 1894C, you beat me to the punch. I had the same reaction.
ReplyDeleteAlso ...
Where the amnesty makes a difference, the RCMP said, is when guns are turned in that could have ended up in the hands of criminals, by way of a break-in, for instance.
Why would the criminals ever break-in? The populace seems more than willing to bring the guns to them.
Eva Salinas is infected with the usual journalistic conceit that she is not only entitled to her own opinions, she's also entitled to her own facts. Not to mention the fact that, for people not in the habit of thinking, appearances are everything.
ReplyDeleteI suspect her reasoning goes something like this:
It LOOKS like a submachine gun, although it is actually SEMI-automatic. Therefore it must be a semi-automatic submachine gun.
Vancouver police have emphasized the incidence of guns used in domestic violence. Between 1979 and 1998, firearms were used in more than a third of spousal homicides, and in 1998, the most common firearm used in a spousal homicide was a rifle or shotgun.
ReplyDeleteSo, by running this program, and seeing people turning in their long guns they're stopping spousal homicides?
"I want to kill my wife, but I turned in my shotgun! I guess we'll just have to live happily ever after..."
Yeah... That makes sense...