Commentary: If It Saves Just One Life!

Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA)
Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA)
Canadian Shooting Sports Association
Canadian Shooting Sports Association

Etobicoke, ON -(AmmoLand.com)- The logic of the “progressive” is truly bizarre.

Take, for example, the RCMP’s rationale for banning Ruger 10/22 magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The RCMP claims with a straight face that the rifle magazine designed for the Ruger 10/22 rifle in 1964 was also designed for the Ruger Charger Pistol first manufactured in 2007.

This decision, so bereft of sanity, wouldn’t be a big deal if it weren’t for one pesky fact. With the stroke of a bureaucratic pen, the RCMP has unilaterally turned hundreds of thousands of Canadians into criminals overnight. These instant criminals now face up to a 10-year prison term for possessing a prohibited device – a rifle magazine that’s been legal in Canada since the 1960’s.

The misleading language used in the RCMP’s rationale – describing the magazines as belonging to the Ruger 10/22 “platform” – clearly reveals an intent to enable the prohibition of many other magazines in a similarly disingenuous fashion.

Manufacturing criminals is not the mandate of the RCMP. Nor is it the mandate of the RCMP to twist the English language into Gordian knots in order to implement their own anti-gun agenda. Its mandate is to enforce the law – not create it. Period.

Collective punishment of citizens who have committed no crime is obscene. The very thought goes against everything our democratic form of government is supposed to defend – not implement!

But this is the logic of the socialists and progressives who would strip Canadians of guns completely “to keep us safe”. The problem with socialism is that it doesn’t keep people safe. It murders them by the millions.

Let’s begin with one of the most evil men in history – Adolf Hitler. Hitler and his Nazi party were barbaric, to be sure, and that they systematically murdered over 12 million citizens in a few short years is a testament to that barbarity.

Josef Stalin, another socialist star, managed to kill over 7 million citizens in just 7 years.

Ismail Enver of Turkey’s Ottoman Empire, managed to slaughter 1.2 million Armenians, 350 thousand Pontian Greeks, 480 thousand Anatolian Greeks and half a million Assyrians (a grand total of 2.53 million citizens) in just 5 years.

Pol Pot, another of socialism’s prodigy, slaughtered 1.7 million citizens after such asinine decrees as anyone wearing glasses was an intellectual and therefore must be killed. Pol Pot took only 4 years to slaughter his citizens in the infamous Cambodian Killing Fields.

By comparison Leonid Brezhnev (900,000 in Afghanistan, 1979-1982); Saddam Hussein (600,000 in Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88); Josip Broz Tito (570,000 in Yugoslavia, 1945-1980); and Idi Amin (300,000 in Uganda, 1969-1979) are practically harmless in comparison.

What two things do all of these civilians, murdered by their own governments, have in common?

First, they were disarmed so they could not defend themselves. Second, they had committed no actual crimes. These civilians were murdered by their own governments for what they thought.

Gun grabbers decry that factual statement with an absurd statement of their own that ALWAYS begins with these four words.

“That can’t happen here.”

What those gun-grabbing socialists always ignore is the fact that it has already happened here. Both the United States and Canada imprisoned citizens of Japanese descent just 60 short years ago. Not because they had committed crimes, but because they MIGHT commit a crime.

Thankfully, our governments did not murder them. But it did strip each of these citizens of all they owned, their dignity and freedom included, and confiscated it for whatever use those governments deemed appropriate.

Collective punishment of citizens who have committed no crime is obscene.

Manufacturing hundreds of thousands of new criminals with the stroke of an RCMP bureaucrat’s pen is insane.

Sending those manufactured criminals to prison for up to 10 years for possessing a rifle magazine that’s been legal for over 50 years is beyond insane: it’s pathological!

About CSSA:

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Old Clockguy

@ Terry Werbiski – I can remember, as a child, hearing of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and also hearing that a “Mountie ALWAYS gets his man” with the implied notion that it is always safe when there is a Mountie around! How times change and the perception of ideas and ideals change also. My dad was a postal employee and carried a rural route for most of his 33 year career. I cannot remember one instance prior to his retirement, when I had any memories that lasted, when I can recall one instance of him leaving the house without… Read more »

terry werbiski

I think it’s time to start a e-petition to disarm the RCMP, it seems people getting shot are, getting shot by police, so common sense says take away their firearms. that is what they want to do to canadians, so they should be on the receiving end to see how they like it . ps I know this will never happen but it should.

Old Clockguy

@ Terry Werbiski – I can remember, as a child, hearing of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and also hearing that a “Mountie ALWAYS gets his man” with the implied notion that it is always safe when there is a Mountie around! How times change and the perception of ideas and ideals change also. My dad was a postal employee and carried a rural route for most of his 33 year career. I cannot remember one instance prior to his retirement, when I had any memories that lasted, when I can recall one instance of him leaving the house without… Read more »

Old Clockguy

I have been following this absurdity with amazement in that it seems like you in our neighboring country to the North must have many of the same genetically damaged gene pools in your political and legal communities as we do down here in the States. We (our politicians to say the least) have such ignorance in their ways of protecting our citizens from themselves that they tend to exhibit symptoms of mental retardation the likes of which would place many respectable law abiding citizens in medical facilities which focus on the treatment of such mental illnesses under normal circumstances. Additionally,… Read more »