CAUSE & EFFECT

It is familiar mix-up, that people confuse cause and effect and reverse the label to those two components in a discussion. For instance, it is common nowadays for some people to insist that gun possession causes crime, and therefore, by reverse logic, to reduce the number of guns is to reduce criminal activity.

This does not happen anywhere in the world where there are statistics because, whatever the reason that law-abiding people have for possessing firearms, their primary or secondary function is to prevent crime from occurring IN A MAN’S CASTLE.

Simply put, Crime causes Guns, not the reverse. Any increase in crime, especially crime near or in the home results in an increase of guns kept, or obtained.

The most likely reason that authorities choose to reverse the logic is that it is much easier and safer to hassle an honest man than it is to challenge the hardened criminal. Isn’t that the lesson we learned, but haven’t acknowledged at Mayerthorpe? Naturally such occurrences will make cops ‘gun shy’. There is far less risk in beating on Brian Ward’s door, or Bruce Montague’s door or any of the hundreds of doors of other law-abiding gun owners just because they have been declared criminals by 130 pages of crap written by Allan Rock and his herd of Justice Department lawyers.

As an old military man, and son of an old military man, I know that the majority of men would rather face off against the Lady’s Aid Society than get into a shoot out with one of Hitler’s Waffen SS Divisions, but that is simply not how wars are won. Ask our men in Afghanistan. You have to finally take on the hard cases.

The authorities who are responsible for the conduct and priorities of our many police forces, starting with the R.C.M.P. must issue firm orders for them to go after the hardened criminals and the criminal gangs FIRST. The punks will quickly disappear and then the cops can leave us to defend our homes. Just like it was BT (before Trudeau)

At the same time Parliament must quit mincing words and order the judiciary to award stiffer penalties for ALL crimes, not just gun crimes, because gun crimes are anyway a minority category. As a side issue, the presence of a firearm during a crime does not really make it a gun crime UNLESS THE GUN IS FIRED. And secondly, if a home owner fires a gun while protecting his family and home, it is not a crime anyway.

It will probably not be possible to increase the length and severity of prison sentences back to where they were when we had very little crime, unless we re-instate the death penalty. The simple reason is that without that time honoured maximum penalty at the top of the scale, all other punishments tend to slice down the scale to near nothing. That is why our prisons are full of people doing nothing while on holiday for a short time.

So, recognizing that cause and effect should never be inverted, get on with solving the problem.