“Nobody wants to take your guns,” say the control freaks. “We just want to make sure that dangerous guns don’t fall into criminal hands. And a good first step is to register guns, so we know who has what, and can make sure that owners are law-abiding, properly trained, and certified.”
Uh Huh. “First step.” Sure. You betcha. Da, Comrade Officer.
They used to be legal firearms, but now they’re either unregistered or outright banned, and they’re wanted by police before there’s a chance burglars put them in Toronto’s underground and underworld markets.
Since March 1, Project Safe City swept 400 unregistered weapons — 150 of them handguns — from homes throughout the city. No charges were filed.
It’s part of a plan to ensure that neglected firearms don’t fall into criminal hands, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said yesterday.
Police are reviewing thousands of gun ownership files to determine which weapons have lapsed registrations and which are now banned, he said.
It’s your property. It was on the approved list. You bought it, quite likely for going on a thousand bucks or more. You were just doing your duty as a lawabiding citizen when you filled out the paperwork.
Now the “approved” list has been edited, and your property is no longer on it. Or you forgot to send in the renewal form, and now you are a felon.
And the Control Freaks have your name, your address, and a list of what you are no longer trusted to possess, but which you have childishly, irresponsibly, criminally refused to hand over when ordered.
Because although you’ve never hurt anybody with it, you’re so stupid, so careless, so unprofessional, you might let it slip into the hands of somebody who not only doesn’t care about the laws against illegal gun ownership, but doesn’t care about the laws against robbery, rape, and murder, either.
Understand this: It’s not about the damn guns, and it’s certainly not about the poor innocent victims of society that rob, rape, and kill.
It’s about control, and it’s about you. You must be controlled. Politicians, cops, and other crooks must be protected from you.
You cannot be trusted, and your life is not worth protecting.
The guns are just the excuse.
[Edit: inserted sense-reversing "doesn't"]