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"This is nothing less than a cheap political subterfuge," said CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron. "I'm not sure if they understand the ‘smell test' north of the border, but Martin's attack on handgun owners sure doesn't pass it. This is a smarmy attempt to shift public focus away from his political troubles, and those of his party.
"A dozen years of Liberal rule in Canada has been nothing short of a disaster," Waldron noted. "The Canadian gun registration scheme has been a billion dollar boondoggle that even Canadian police have criticized. Under Liberal rule, the country has endured not only that debacle, but also the infamous sponsorship scandal. Most of the blame for that fiasco fell on the shoulders of Martin's predecessor, Jean Chretien, but the fact remains, Liberal rule has given Canadians one headache after another.
"Martin's proposed handgun ban is not only just another stupid attack on law-abiding Canadian gun owners," Waldron stated, "it is clearly designed to deflect public and media attention away from his scandal-plagued government and the political trouncing Liberals took last month. We're disappointed, but hardly surprised, that the Toronto Star editorial writers were completely sucked in by this tawdry political maneuver.
"As is typical of liberal politicians here in the United States," Waldron observed, "Martin has discovered that when your bankrupt philosophy is under attack, and your party is politically shipwrecked, there is only one thing to do: Attack gun owners. They're the only people against whom it is still fashionable to practice social bigotry. In Martin's case, it's like the cattle rustler stirring up a lynch mob to hang the town outcast while he uses the distraction to make good his own escape. How pitiful is that?"