🚀 go-pugleaf

larry_soo@mindlink.bc.ca (larry soo) wrote:
>ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) wrote:
>
>>Gun control is like putting locks on your house. They won't stop the most
>It's not the same at all, Colin.  Putting locks on your house affects
>only YOU and YOUR house.  C68 is directly affects all people who
>belong to a group where a miniscule portion are involved in criminal
>activities.  
>

Actually, the analogy is not a bad one. A lot of very nasty things
happen behind locked doors, and locked doors slow down the police.
Should it be illegal to build a sound-proof house with really-good
doors and locks that the police couldn't get through? Would it be 
reasonable to pass a federal law making it a jail-term offense
to build such a house without a license? Since there is no way
of knowing whether any given house violates the law, shouldn't
we require licenses and random inspections of all houses, to make
sure they are legal? 

How about a mandatory minimum sentence for anyone convicted of
committing a crime behind locked doors?

In tune with banning the squirrel gun used at the U of M, should 
we not make it illegal to build a house of the same design as 
Paul Bernardo's house?

Most important - the Minister of Justice should be able, by Order
in Council, to prohibit any lock that is too strong and any house
design that looks "mean" or has enhanced safety and reliability 
features. 

I'm really warming to this one. It's the perfect sequel to C-68. Now
that the Minister of Justice and his "inspectors" have unrestricted 
search and seizure capability, they'll need a way to make sure they
can exercise it without significant resistance. We can't have those
child-pornographers building fortresses now, can we? 

Regular house-to-house inspections would probably have saved Bernardo's 
victims. Surely, those of us with nothing to hide should be willing
to make this small sacrifice.

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                Marc

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