PM Says U.S. partly to blame for gun crime proliferating in Canadian communities

Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin, suggested to U.S. Secretary of State Condy Rice that America needs to take responsibility for the illegal American guns being smuggled into Canada every day; Illegal guns which are responsible for half of the gun-related deaths in Canada. Toronto alone has had a spate of gun crime this summer as any Canadian newspaper will tell. As a Torontonian, I sympathize with the plight of this gun-plagued city, but I can’t figure out if Paul Martin is a genius or an absolute moron.

To suggest that having U.S. authorities help stem the tide of smuggled weapons into Canada is a naïve proposal, would be like saying the UN is kinda malfunctioning right now. It’s ludicrous! For starters, the weapons are pointed at our borders, meaning it’s our border guards, not the Americans’, who are supposed to catch incoming contraband. How on earth are the Americans supposed to help? Besides that, the various U.S. law enforcement agencies are busy with problems in their own yard, thank you very much.

Just as I was about to write fellow Liberal Paul Martin off as an idiot, I caught this little jab: “The Americans ask us to protect the borders. The Americans say there are things they do not like that come from Canada. Well, there are things that come from the Unites States that we don’t like. And if we have a responsibility to then, they have a responsibility to us.” Softwood lumber and other trade disputes aside, I remember being Canada being chided (post 9/11) for its lack of border security, which of course raises the same question: “Um, aren’t your border agents watching who’s crossing your border?” That’s when it donned on me: both sides are stupid. Canada can’t watch for terrorists coming into the States any more than America can watch for guns coming into Canada, so everyone let’s quit being petty and start doing our own damn jobs!