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  1. A recent CTV poll gives me hope, makes me believe not everyone is buying the liberal propaganda,
    Which would save more lives?
    Mandatory snow tires during winter
    4500 votes (62 %)
    Handgun ban
    2783 votes (38 %)
    Total Votes: 7283

  2. Bourque’s blog is saying that Krista Erickson is guilty of writing questions for the CBC. Her ass should be fired, fired, fired!

  3. Hmm… been a while since we’ve seen a link mocking those who think the U.S. economy isn’t looking so good. You telling there isn’t one RNC.org article about how great things are to link to?

  4. From a poll quoted by Friend of USA:
    “Which would save more lives?
    “Mandatory snow tires during winter
    4500 votes (62 %)
    “Handgun ban
    2783 votes (38 %)”
    I know that, in general, Canadians are stupid. But I was disappointed by this.
    Good Lord, deliver us.

  5. lookout – are you saying that a handgun ban would save lives? But, you are assuming that a criminal would obey such a ban. Why should he?
    I agree with snow tires! But, one must remember that the driver has to drive – carefully – snow tires or not.
    And anyone who uses a gun to commit a crime, ought to receive a severe criminal sentence. That will reduce gun crime. Our society has to make the use of guns in crime an extremely costly and risky action. Use a gun – and it’s 20 years.
    Now – it’s use a gun, and you are out on bail immediately…to commit another crime.
    Right now, our judges don’t make crime a high-risk economy. So, criminals, who are in it for the economic returns, take the low risk, of a few months in jail. If crime were a high risk endeavour, it wouldn’t be viewed as an ‘easy job for high returns’.

  7. Well, lookout, your comment on Canadians’ stupidity has validity – just look in the mirror, sunshine. You and the rest of the gun-phobics who can’t seem to grasp the very simple fact that criminals don’t give a damn about gun control. Taking away my guns won’t make the streets any safer, since the whole point of fighting crime is taking the CRIMINALS off the street. As the experiment in the UK has shown rather conclusively, banning guns simply disarms law abiding citizens. Who’s the stupid one now?
    *shakes his head*

  8. lookout,
    You can conceal a hand gun
    but you can not conceal the tires on your car.
    That is why a summer or four seasons tire “ban” would work
    and a hand gun ban can not.
    No one can control or even monitor what people hide in their pockets, it is impossible to do.
    it is really that simple.

  9. You can control what tire stores sell in winter
    but you can not control what is sold in street alleys.
    Criminals do not give receipts or keep a record of hand guns sales.
    really it is that simple.

  10. “How is being transfered from Ottawa to Toronto a demotion or punishment?”
    You have to ask?
    Horny Toad

  11. While I certainly can’t speak for Lookout, I’m pretty sure she meant that it is appalling that as much as 38% of those polled are stupid enough to believe what they voted for. One of the problems of blog comments is that they tend to enhance some people’s proclivities toward searching for disagreement and then attacking. Alas, such efforts are often enough incorrect to at least be interesting as a phenomenom.

  12. “How is being transfered from Ottawa to Toronto a demotion or punishment?”
    I would question that myself. Perhaps Ms. Erickson should have earned herself a transfer to “redneck central” in the middle of Calgary

  13. “Which would save more lives?”
    I would change to the poll to:
    “What would save more lives?”
    1) More laws.
    2) Personal responsibility.

  15. Vitruvius,
    Try as I might … can’t out better your comment. Of course this means your buying the beers when I get back to the frozen North (thawing very rapidly … Gore wouldn’t lie).
    As a but, but, I will add … when driving to fast, when on ice, snow tires do nothing … a lot of fenders benders happen … this only a concern if the government is the insurance company.
    The handgun thing … I guess it makes sense for some to ban legal owners instead of tackling the criminals … easy targets first.

  18. Vitruvius @ 11:22 wrote, “While I certainly can’t speak for Lookout, I’m pretty sure she meant that it is appalling that as much as 38% of those polled are stupid enough to believe what they voted for.”
    Thanks, Vitruvius. You’re exactly correct.
    But I didn’t–obviously–make my point clear.
    That AS MANY as 38% of those polled think a ban on hand guns would be helpful shows that one can certainly fool some of the people some of the time: in Canada, it seems like too much of the time.
    My blood boiled when that idiot Toronto mayor, David Miller, intoned that banning hand guns was the answer to the latest rash of shootings in Toronto. Then a friend of mine–an intelligent, lefty useful idiot–enthused to my husband and I about David Miller’s excellent idea. In unison, we both said, “Bollocks. He’s a complete idiot!” My friend was nonplussed. “He is?” A few explanations later and she was beginning to see our point. Sheesh!

  22. Yeah, Pablo has to have lied when he said he wrote the questions. He was parachuted into a Liberal chair on the Committee, the questions were outrageous, the Chair, Szabo allowed them without question.
    The so called discipline, hardy har, meted out to the CBC gal who supplied them with the questions has to be enough proof of collaboration. Someone went on a fishing trip to get them, our money at work.
    But then, why are we surprised, he’s a Liberal, lying is permitted, especially when the truth doesn’t fit their agenda.
    Agree, sending Erikson to Toronto is hugs and kisses all ’round. She’ll be a star.

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