I’ve set my dad up with a blog of his own, since he’s always writing letters to the editor of newspapers and to Ministers. So now he can speak directly to the people of this province who matter - you. He’s also been added to the Saskblogs Aggregator, thanks Lance.
His latest entry is about gun control, and it’s not the typical standpoint you’d expect from a Liberal.
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Fraser Macdonald | 15-Dec-06 at 9:18 am | Permalink
Great to see previous generations blogging!
I completely agree with this. The goals behind the Liberal plan were noble, but it’s not a workable system, and I think this is one issue where the Liberals have to admit is not the best approach to gun control and safety, and move on with a new plan. Preventing unstable people from getting guns, tougher punishments for illegal handguns, and better border controls have got to be looked at instead of taking the political approach of not wanting to look like this was a mistake. The damage has been done because of the outrageous spending anyways. The Conservatives are soon going to admit that the Clean Air Act was a mistake, and that a better approach must be taken, the Liberals need to do the same and stop playing politics with people’s lives.
Miss Cellania | 16-Dec-06 at 7:51 am | Permalink
His views on gun control are not that unusual. There are tons of western Americans who would be registered democrats if it weren’t for that pesky gun control issue.
Saskboy | 16-Dec-06 at 10:24 am | Permalink
I agree Miss C, his views aren’t unusual, but they don’t jive with the urban/East dominated Liberal Party, of which he’s worked and voted for most of his life. In the mid-1990s, the Liberal Party started pushing long-gun registration, when before we had handgun registration only. They said it would cost about $2M to implement a registration database (if I recall correctly), but it ballooned to closer to $200M or $2B I don’t remember which.
It’s a shame really. A couple Computer Science students could have become rich from making a really good and simple registry database, and the forms would be non-government-like and actually simple. They could have done it for $500,000 in a couple months. Instead it became the Liberals biggest boondoggle aside from Adscam, and cost them the election because the gun registry arrogance eliminated any chance of most Liberals being elected in Alberta or Saskatchewan to offset lost seats in Ontario and Quebec. To this day, I rarely hear an Ontario liberal that “gets it”, and they write off the West as a lost cause, not realizing that the reason the Liberals will never hold a majority is because of the GUN REGISTRY. It’s not that Westerners don’t like fewer gun deaths (which really isn’t something the registry achieves anyway) it’s that we see the issue as the epitome of Liberal Party arrogance toward the West.