Oh my God this is awful.

What is needed is compulsory Federal registration of all motor vehicles, and a criminal record for failing to comply. Furthermore there should be strict laws in place to regulate the use of vehicles and fines and criminal records for improper use.

Clearly the provinces aren't doing their jobs here and only the Federal Government is capable of turning this around. We need to have a national registry and national standards with a very large (bilingual) bureaucracy to run it all. Note that residents outside the Ottawa postal code area need not apply.

Hey Kate,

Speaking of today's news, the Liberals just released two new ads. What do you think about the Liberal ad that shows Harper and then immediately where harper was, a gun. I'm trying to understand if my visceral reaction to this is reasonable, or was just coloured by my recent experience yesterday. This is my reaction (a comment on Andrew Coyne's blog):

"I agree. I just saw it.

It's disturbing as hell.

Yesterday, I was walking by a BC Hydro electricity power box of some type.

On it, someone had glued two photos of a well-known female entertainer with a gunsight on her head and the Glaring Headline up top: "Shoot Celebrities".

It was disturbing and evil and there ARE unstable types who have such ideas, so I immediately removed both.

This commercial that I saw has the same type of disturbing imagery.

The Liberals are NOT beyone subtle subliminal tricks.

Last campaign it was pointing a gun directly at Citizens through their television set, and having it very briefly "flash" at the end, subliminally indicating a GUN SHOT.

Now, we have the gun not pointed at the Citizen, the Liberals put Harper on the screen and then a semi-automatic pistol.

This is as disgusting and evil as what I saw yesterday.

There are many ways that ad can be read subliminally; other interpretations are possible and were probably considered.

But such imagery from a ruling national party in a "liberal" Western Democracy is beneath contempt.

Paul Martin should step up to the plate and immediately insist that that ad is withdrawn.

He should also apologize.

I, as a Canadian who abhors the thought of violent and suggestive political imagery in this country, am offended.

The Liberal Party must apologize to Canadians."

I was commenting in response to someone who had the same idea as me regarding that ad.

I just wanted to acknowledge that I had read this idea about the national car registry on a blog somewhere today... but have no recollection where I saw it so I borrowed the idea for this post because it was just so appropriate.

If you had the original idea... just wanted you to know that I know and now everyone knows.

homicides, car crashes combined still don't come close to the mortalities attributed to diabetes type 1 and type 2.

Combined diabetes related illnesses account for 20% of all mortalities.

In any case, death still sucks.

On that note Cheers

Seems to me that the Harper/Gun Liberal ad will soon backfire.

Get it? Gun ad, backfire?

The federal car registry must include all cars, whether they are currently in use or not, including that Grandpa's old clunker parked in the bush on the back 40.

And let's not hear any talk about provincial jurisdiction, this is clearly an area of federal responsibility.

I spotted it this morning as well. Why are you silly people getting so upset about a few hand-gun murders when there is such bloody carnage out there on the rural (i.e. conservative) roads - caused by - alcohol!!! One would think these MSM guys would have learned by now that the blogosphere can smell their spin a mile away. They still haven't figured out that nobody, including Liberal-voting Torontonians, wants any more children shot on Yonge Street. But we all understand the risks of driving. Nice try.

And this in a country where you can get free booze if you manage to sufficiently destroy yourself with alcohol.

Funny how we don't hear about such comparisons from the media in relation to the U.S. Iraqi death toll.

More people are killed driving too fast or adjusting their radios while driving than are killed in in an armed conflict to overthrow a totalitarian regime.

Canada still has the highest murder rate of any western nation in its rural areas. Its due to the reserves---- and you can include murder city one and two in those. Regina and Saskatoon.

I think that in addition to forcing the citizens of this country to have to register their vehicles, we should also register all the streets and roads, all the corners and intersections.

What next, a crusade against the elderly? Course we all know that the elderly have a nasty and unstudied propensity for dying of old age. I demand action and a national dialog that can lead to the elimination of death by old age.

I liked the other Toronto Star story about the guy who is a pariah becuase he had $40K worth of handguns stolen and at least one was used in a violent crime. The jist of the story was that his neighbours were flabbergasted by the fact that he had so many guns stored near children. You see, he lived on the 17th floor of an apartment building here in TO.

The guns were locked in a 1700 lb. steel and concrete safe. The apartment was broken into and trashed and the safe was opened with a torch and sledgehammer.

Now, I don't actually live in an apartment building, but I have been in them. Seems to me that if some person or persons broke into the unit and burned and smashed their way into this safe that someone might have noticed and called the police. Sledgehammers ain't exactly quiet and cutting through metal with a torch doesn't exactly smell like dinner cooking.

As well, there was no mention of the fact that break and enter and theft over $5K and little things like that are generally considered illegal even here in Canada.

Nope, the gun owner was at fault.

I believe that the death problem is on the way to finding a solution.

How many times have you been assured by "health reporters" that studies indicate... - "men who.. blahblahblah... cut their death rates in half."

Pat Patterson: heh. I remember an episode of Welcome Back Kotter where Barbarino was on a crusade to end death by "natural causes".

God I'm old.

CTV might as well do a poll comparing the number of cats and dogs in Canada. Same value. This comparison is a kick in the gut to anyone remotely touched by the criminal gang violence in Toronto. Shame on CTV.

Considering that no one who runs somebody down at a crosswalk ever gets their name or photo in the papers,(their 'privacy' has to be protected, ya understand)- they could be the same people who are doing the shootings?

The leaders should have to ride their campaign buses from T Bay to Kenora or Canmore to Kamloops. I doubt their handlers would allow it.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

Ronald Reagan
40th president of US (1911 - 2004)

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/204.html

chaz sounds like you're telling everyone that it's okay to die in a car and not by gun. Kind of confusing logic, after all dead is dead and cars are the MASS MURDERER of the western world.

But how many vehicular homicides are there ?? If you want to compare car/gun deaths you have to sort the data, normalize to account for population sizes and compare apples to apples.

They are called traffic ACCIDENTS, not homicides for a reason.

What's happening in our cities is not handgun accidents, its premeditated MURDER.

the bear 9:06. Actually cars are only now catching up to Adolf, Uncle Joe and Chairman Mao.

Kate: I have a friend who has access to insurance actuary reports and what you say is true about less auto accidents even theough more cars. Now here's some infor for you which will also invalidate a lot of the MSM hype we see. Particularlty pertaining to your two favorite pastimes Kate; Biking and shooting.

First off, the recent actuarials (insurance statistics they base liability and fix premiums on) state there are more, and larger more expensive motorcycles on the road than ever before yet we are in an all time low for at fault motorcycle accidents and MC accidents in general.
Yet we not with the small nuber of accidents the MSM report every damn one....G"GD Mudercickles...otta take 'em off the road...alway accident with em"..that's what the MSM reader is left with to speculate. However, the reason the stats are favorable is that the average age of motorcycle owners is now 49 and there is a decline in motocycle registrations to people between 16 to 25. So, the most bikes bikes on the roads are hawgs owned by older bikers...i guess maturity has a claming effect on bikers....today you see lots of "old bikers".

Second, according to insurance statistics the safest place to be in Canada is on the firing line of your local hand gun range or in a home with lawfully owned firearms in it. The stats for injury claim and injury probability indicate that both these situations have the lowest ( almost nonexistant) claim rates and sub fractional probability of injury rates as evidenced by actual occurance...the comparison I heard used was you stood a better chance of being hit by lightning than injured with a leagally owned firearm...this is why major insurer liability insurance for gun owners to protect them and the public while they target shoot, hunt or collect secures the modest premium of 15 dollars a year for 2 million dollars liability. Gun club members can get the same for 5 dollars a year. Seems the commercial insurers aren't worried about privately owned civilian fiorearms why is the MSM and liberal regime ?

Fred, dead is dead & and as the cited article noted the vast majority of the 'accidents' were 100% preventable. The fact you are dying needlessly by gun or car doesn't make it any less tragic to the victims family! Sounds like you're trying to pass automobile death off as a 'necessary evil' of travel.

Potato chips cause obesity, which causes diabetes, heart disease and stroke. There should be a chip registry for addicts, or at least a safe inhalation site where Lay's addicts can go in, scarf their way through a bag, lie down with a beer to wash down the salt, before heading back onto the street to walk off their over-indulgence. WHere's Ujjal when you need him?

Hey Bear: There is no such thing as an "accident" when human error is involved...poor judgement...so do we limit everyone's freedom to drive or shot because of the poor judgement of a tiny minority. Also you seem to have a hard time separating ciminal gun related deaths from accidental Gun deaths which, statistically, are less likely than being hit by lightning so what shall we do about the 100% preventability of the larger problem of lightning strike victims?... regulate the atmospere, restrict civilian foul weather travel or have the sense to not stand out in lightning storms?

Rebarbarian:
I drive canmore to kamloops three times a year at least. Its my favorite stretch of highway on the trip to thunder bay. Ive never had a problem, but then, im a good driver.

They are using vehicles for homicides in Calgary.

Last week , after being booted from a party, the vehicle was driven the wrong way down a oneway street and into about 20 people coming out of the same party.
one dead , 3 or 4 in bad shape.
took the MSM days to report the name or ethnicity of in all.

Best of the web moment.

"Despite promise to end 2-tier health care, seniors
still make up majority of elderly"

Or is it, most elderly make up a majority of seniors?

Speaking of highway safety, I'd like to report that on my way to Halifax on Dec. 23, I observed three separate auto accident scenes, including one fatality.

It was apparently due to a sudden snowsquall. Also, apparently many folks don't understand how to drive on slippery roads, so...

Imagine how many lives could've been saved if, instead of AdScam, the Liberals had done an ad campaign to inform drivers of the dangers of driving on slippery roads and how to do it safely? But nope... they had to, instead, use the millions to enrich themselves!

See how useless the Liberals are?

wHY ARE NOT OUR POLITICIANS READY TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT ROADWAY CARNAGE AS MUCH AS THEIR LOOKING FOR MORE GUN CONTROL LAWS IS IT BECUASE THEY CANT GET THE USIAL NEWS MEDIA FEEDING FRENZY AS THEY DO WHEN THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT GUNS?

So, to WLMac "There is no such thing as an "accident" when human error is involved..."

Human error primarily implies a mistake; how do you dare to assume that any human error is a deliberate - as opposed to accidental - ocurrence?
Hindsight is always 20/20 and, by definition, it is also always TOO LATE!
You may come along after the fact and pontificate that, "He should have known better..." but that does not alter the fact that "he" did NOT know better, and that whatever ocurred as a result was, and remains, an accident. It may have been horrible, but it was an accident.
Let it go...

Paul Martin's Canadian Values:
Sex Clubs.
Polygamy.
And making sure these things can't be stopped.
I am not making this up.

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