Gun raffle draws fire

A backbench Saskat­chewan Conservative MP is coming under fire for speaking to a gun lobby in the Greater Toronto Area next month where a Beretta semi-automatic handgun is being raffled off.

MP Garry Breitkreuz is the guest speaker at the Canadian Shooting Sports Association’s annual general meeting and dinner April 18 in Mississauga where he’s to be lauded for his private member’s bill to abolish Canada’s controversial long-gun registry and relax rules on prohibited and restricted weap­ons.

News of the gun prize drew immediate outrage.“We have got to be finding ways to get them (handguns) off the streets, not handing them out as prizes,” Liberal MP Mark Holland (Ajax-Pickering) said yesterday.“It really is an insult to a community that has seen so much gun violence and where so many people have been killed … to give that away as a (raffle) prize,” Holland said.The Toronto Star could not reach Breitkreuz, the MP for Yorkton-Melville, or the CSSA, which claims to be very politically active.
Source: Metro News

Obviously Breitkreuz has no clue as to the feelings of myself, and many others in the city, who want all handguns banned. I have no problem with legitimate hunting guns and/or hunters, but handguns have only one purpose and this raffle is a load of crap.

Sri Lankan Attack: God No Where Around.

So, I heard someone on the news today saying that the Pakistani police essentially did nothing during this attack. The police, of course, deny this. However, it reminded me of the Pakistani police officer on the BBC news the other night who said something like this; "the shooting started and I fell to the ground and began to pray". 

Lets hope our police don't start using this praying strategy as their first response, because if they do, in my opinion, we are all in big trouble. You will note that six policemen and two civilians died in this attack.

The following is from Wikipedia:

The Sri Lankan cricket team attack occurred on March 3, 2009, as a convoy carrying Sri Lankancricketers in a bus was fired upon by 12 gunmen, near the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan.^[1] The cricketers were on their way to play the third day of the second Test against the Pakistani cricket team. Six members of the Sri Lankan cricket team were injured. Six Pakistani policemen and two civilians were killed.

Source: Wikipedia