Gun Grabs, Whether in Truth or Fiction, Are Stupid and Evil

Like all other liberals, progressives, and leftists, gun-grabbers never tell the truth when a lie will suffice. Except for the contingent that overlaps the anti-fur, anti-meat, animal rights wackos, the gun-grabbers have always said that they were not going after hunters or those who use guns merely for target shooting. Instead, they keep trying to assure us, it is only the criminals who use guns to kill other people that they are trying to stop. This is and always has been a lie.

Take, for example, the new gun ban devised by Captain Airhead, who we Canadians were stupid enough to vote in as the Prime Minister of Her Majesty’s government twice in a row, and Bill Blair, the Cabinet Minister for Public Safety.

On a side note, I very much object to the title “Minister for Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.” It sounds like it came straight out of the French Revolution, in which the Jacobins’ “Committee of Public Safety” was the body directly responsible for the Reign of Terror. It was fifteen years ago that the Liberals changed the title. The older title Solicitor General was much more appropriate.

Captain Airhead and Bill Blair introduced their new gun ban by saying that it was for the purpose of combatting gun violence. Now, if you want to combat gun violence in Canada, the guns you should be concerned with are handguns. Well over half of all homicides by firearm in Canada involve handguns. In 2018, for example, there were 249 deaths by shooting and in 143 of these the gun was a handgun. That’s 57%. The previous year there were 267 shooting deaths with 145 being from handguns. That’s a slightly smaller percentage, 54%, but it is still over half. The year before that it had been 58% with 133 handguns out of 223 gun-related homicides. In 2015 it was 57% and in 2014 it had been 66.5%. So, Captain Airhead and Blair are going after handguns right?

No they are not. The only thing they could do about the guns used in most gun crimes in Canada is enforce the laws that are already on the books. You can hardly turn that into a giant grandstanding gesture and a photo op. Their ban covers approximately 1500 firearms, all of which are long guns. These guns are rarely used in gun crimes in Canada, and, despite the Prime Minister’s stated opinion to the contrary, are not particularly useful for those who want to kill large numbers of people really quickly. They are manufactured to look like military grade weapons, but they are not. A couple of them featured into high profile shooting incidents, of a type which are extremely rare but which both the media and progressive politicians like to focus on and hype due to their other pet causes.

In reality, the ban will do next to nothing about gun violence in Canada, and will only serve to harass the very hunters, farmers, and sportsmen that the government claims not to be targeting.

Speaking of the harassment of hunters, we have just been treated to a most shameful example of a hunter having his gun taken away from him for no good reason. The gun in question is a double barrel shotgun, and its owner has only ever used it for hunting. Based on the fact that in the eighty years in which he has been hunting the same “scewy” or “wascally” wabbit, he has never hurt anyone but himself with the thing, I think it is safe to say that it poses no threat to anybody, unless, perhaps, it explodes due to the number of times the barrels have been tied together in a knot. Heck, you could stop that gun by sticking your finger in the barrel.

Yes, the people in charge at Warner Brother have decided that Mr. Elmer Fudd can no longer carry his shotgun when hunting Bugs Bunny. In its place they have given him a scythe. Hollywood executives truly are an ignorant breed. Probably the only thing they know about scythes are that the Grim Reaper carries one and so they assume it to be an instrument of death. It is not. It is for harvesting grain, not hunting wabbits.

As Marvin the Martian has been known to say "this makes me very angry."

Speaking of Marvin, I wonder if they are planning on taking away his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator? It is, a planet-killing weapon similar to that of the Death Star in Star Wars. I suspect it will get a pass, though. According to Peter Browngardt, the executive producer, "TNT, the Acme stuff" is still kosher. Acme dynamite makes a kaboom. The Space Modulator merely makes a larger one, an "earth-shattering kaboom." Much safer than a gun. Marvin had better hide his "A-1 Disintegrating Pistol" away, however, before someone notices that it too is a gun of sorts. They have already confiscated Yosemite Sam's six-shooters.

Now Yosemite Sam is a bit of a different case than Elmer Fudd. Sam is a cowboy outlaw - not the kind who records country-and-western music but the kind who robs trains and banks. In real life, he would be a contributor to the gun violence that gun laws are supposed to combat.

He is not real life, however, but a cartoon character, and taking guns away from cartoon villains does nothing to stop real life gun crime.

It is even sillier to take guns away from cartoon hunters, like Elmer Fudd.

It is hardly unusual for Hollywood executives to be woke, progressive, snowflake, crybabies but it seems the Warner Brothers have been putting too much stress on the the "Looney" in Looney Tunes.

It is not like they are ever going to let Elmer catch and eat that wabbit. They might as well let him keep his gun.