Paul Martin, you're FIRED.

I've been trying to articulate to many of my friends who are not firearms owners, hunters or sports shooters, just why Paul Martin's gun ban is not only wrong, but does not solve the gun violence Toronto is experiencing.

The liberals have been in power for 12 years. Over their watch, the gun violence in Toronto has become more blatant and brash. The gun has become the primary gang tool for intimidation and control by force. A shooting is dramatic, and it makes for good press, so regardless of the statistics to the contrary, gun violence is on the minds of every Canadian every time a shooting in Toronto is reported in the media. So after 12 years and on the eve of an election, Paul Martin and his liberal party have suddenly had an epiphany! Guns are the problem! Well, let us consider that the guns are not going off by themselves randomly. A gun doesn't take a stroll by itself and decide to go off while aiming at innocent people. There is actually a shooter called a "cri-min-al" who is employing that gun as a tool to ply his trade. What about that criminal? Why isn't Paul Martin "banning" criminals? Why aren't those who use guns in crimes called to account for their actions and put away for a long time to protect the public from their violence??? Why are your rights to be safe as a citizen in this country second to a criminal's rights? Mayor Miller is partially right, my right to be safe trumps other rights. But it should not trump the property rights of law biding Canadians. Mayor Millers' right to be safe should trump the rights of a violent criminal to be allowed to walk the streets!

Systematically over 12 years, the Chretien, and now Paul Martin Liberals, have IGNORED the core cause of societal violence and have allowed youth at risk programs, programs aimed to support lower income single mothers to cope, to go underfunded and mostly eliminated. The Liberals over their 12 years have also allowed violent criminals to stay out of incarceration and to mix in with the general Canadian population. My right as a citizen to be safe has been trumped by Paul Martin's willingness to allow violent offenders to have more rights than ME. What does that say about Paul Martin's true ethics and morals? Why don't you ask yourself that question Mr. Miller? Mr. Miller needs to switch his brain on and think about what he is supporting. Its a sad day when the Mayor of Canada's largest city acts like the sheep he's leading.

Who is responsible for this violence? Paul Martin says hand gun owners and MORE control and an outright ban will solve the problem. Has it in the past? Paul Martin and the Liberals have spent an unprecedented amount of YOUR money registering and controlling law biding citizens and their firearms for the better part of a decade now. Has this strategy worked? Clearly NO. What is even more of an indictment is if you took the 2 billion dollars for the firearms registry and added it to the money the liberal party has STOLEN from the Canadian people (the money we KNOW about, but don't worry, every day we are finding more liberals with no ethics who are stealing Canadian taxpayers money) and he instead, funded the police, the courts, the Federal penal infrastructure and put in place federal laws with double digit minimum sentences to give police and the courts what they need to put away violent offenders, gun violence in Toronto would be impacted. If he funded social programs that rescue impoverished youth from the streets, and from the clutches of gang leaders and drug dealers, the gun violence would have no criminal element from which to commit these crimes in the first place.

Why has Mr. Martin suddenly found religion again in gun control? Very simply he thinks Canadians are stupid and will not look at his record. His record has all but ignored the violence of criminals throughout the past 12 year liberal 'mandate'. His and his party's solution has and does not work. The liberal party's 12 year strategy to combat violent crime is a complete failure. He and his party have had, and squandered, the time and the financial resources of an entire NATION, with no positive effect in reducing or eliminating this criminal violence. And he has the unmitigated GALL to come back to the Canadian people after this 12 year record and ask them for another 4 years of the same ineptitude and lack of understanding and vision of the problem. My god, the man has balls the size of watermelons.

In short, if you vote liberal, you're voting for a party that has officially identified thieves within it (scandal after scandal) yet asks you to trust it. You'd be voting for a party that has led this country to believe that gun control in the form of a registry will stop violent criminals - it has not. You'd be voting for a party that offers politically opportunistic, knee-jerk ill thought out policy decision making on-the-fly during elections (helicopters & the rescinding of the GST anyone?). You'd be voting for a party with the most horrendous track record when it comes to dealing with violent criminals in the courts. You'd be voting for a party that wants you to believe you should fear law biding citizens who enjoy a sport called shooting and that somehow by restricting their rights and seizing their property it will stop gun violence in Toronto. In short, Paul Martin's proposition is the most asinine, intellectually bankrupt policy anyone could come up with to respond to the gun violence problems faced in Toronto.

Don't be fooled. Paul Martin hasn't changed one bit, he just wants your vote so he can stay in power and continue to deny allegations of wrongdoing for minister after minister after minister. It seems that the only thing Paul Martin has successfully done over the years is DEFEND CRIMINALS. I want a Prime Minister running my country, not a defense lawyer, who, incidently has been complicit, as finance minister and prime minister, with his party and governments financial wrongdoing. He himself said prior to the Gomery inquiry that HE is responsible for his government and his party. Well Mr. Martin, we finally have something we can agree on. Polish off your resume and find another job because you're fired.