Dear Editor
As usual, the Liberals are using a tragedy (Nova Scotia shotings) to fulfill their political agenda against guns. Successive Liberal governments have gone after law-abiding gun owners rather than criminals. The Liberal motto since the 1982 Bill of Rights has been "soft on crime and tough on legal gun owners." Pierre Trudeau's 1982 Bill of Rights and Freedoms changed the legal system. It put the rights of the individual above the rights of society. Now the criminal has more rights than the victim.
In Canada, 37.8 per cent of homicides are stabbings and 31.2 per cent are shootings (Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Nov. 27, 2015) so why not knife control? The Liberal government, during the implementation and introduction of C68 (gun control) spent millions of taxpayers' dollars to make all law-abiding gun owners look bad. Canadian citizens, who do not understand legal hunting and shooting sports, soon became prejudiced against legal gun owners.
We spent three months in Yuma, Ariz. this winter. A large percent of the population in Arizona and Nevada carry concealed pistols. Women are able to protect themselves from sexual predators. In Yuma, you never have to lock your house, car, sheds or property. I feel 12 times safer there.
If the Liberals have their way, only the police and criminals will have guns. Do you think the police are going to protect you? The criminals will think its open season on law-abiding citizens.
Gordon Dykstra
North Battleford
