Terrorist funding and guns

   
Ottawa, Ontario - December 5, 2002, by: Peter MacKay
   

gun
battles

Terror isn't found only in countries where extremists groups operate, increasingly Canadians are terrified of gun battles taking place on the streets of our cities.

 

 

money
and guns

Raising money in Canada for international terrorist organizations should be a criminal offence, but in certain instances the Government refuses to do so. Those using firearms in the commission of a crime could receive sentences of up to 14 years, but one year, the minimum, is the norm.

 

 

unregistered
guns

At year end $875 million, more than ten times the promised cost of $85 million, will have been spent on a long gun registry that has done nothing to halt the gangs who use unregistered weapons.

 

 

long gun
law

The law criminalizing all those who haven't registered their long guns by January 1st ought to be rescinded. The resources saved by this redirected to apprehending and imprisoning those who are terrorizing and at times killing law abiding citizens in their street battles.

 

 

 

"There ought to be a law!" is something we often hear.

 

 

enforcement

Well, truth be told too often the laws are there already. They're just not being enforced. And they should be!
   
 

Peter MacKay

 

M.P. Pictou-Antigonish-Guysborough

   
References:
  Gun violence hits Toronto again, November 11, 2002, Toronto CBC News
   
  Fernandes, Rudy, Paul Martin and the Tamil Eelam Society, November 20, 2002, Ensign
   
  Reilly, Mike, Banning terrorist groups a start, November 5, 2002, Ensign
   

 

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