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Yesterday, I wrote about Prime Minister Harper hitting upon yet another red-meat issue, this one potentially quite dangerous, over which his base can salivate. He suggested that guns are an important part of personal safety, especially in rural areas.
Two letters in today's Globe suggest not everyone with rural experience embrace Mr. Harper's twisted vision.
PM, gun control
As one who resides in a rural area and has guns, the concept of having them for my safety has never been something I’ve thought about (Provocation, Pandering And Prejudice – March 17). I suppose if that were the case and I were truly worried about my safety, instead of locking them up and storing the ammunition separately, loaded guns would lying all over the place. It’s hard to believe that this is what Stephen Harper had in mind. Instead, chalk the comments up to the mouth moving faster than the brain.
Jeff Spooner, Kinburn, Ont.
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My father spent his early days on granddad’s horse ranch in the Cypress Hills where the ethic was to keep one’s doors open, whether at home or not, for anyone who needed shelter and a meal.
Americans across the border had a different approach. Our gunslinger PM wants seems to want to bring gun violence north.
Jerry Thompson, Ottawa
Stephen Harper is a chess club reject who thinks he is still smarter than everybody else.
ReplyDeleteI suspect his deficiencies are many, Anon. And they all add up to an egregious and conspicuous unfitness to govern.
DeleteWhile the Liberals and the NDP fight over who said what over a coalition that both at some time had either embraced and then disavowed, Closet Leader is scaring the sh** out of his base and disengaged voters (now instigating insecurity in rural voters by suggesting they need guns). As we saw with the Israeli elections yesterday, fear and racism works. I would choke if I hear Trudeau again claim that hope triumphs over fear and ignorance. The Zionist Union sold hope for peace and naively thought they did not need to counter Bibi's last minute racist comments about Arab voters voting in droves.
ReplyDeleteWe may get another Harper minority because it seems that both Trudeau and Mulcair are either unwilling or unable to fight the common enemy. Take Bill C-51. Now a truly random poll, Forum, has shown that the support for it is nowhere near the 82% claimed by the dubious, non random, online panel survey done by Angus Reid and hyped, wittingly or unwittingly, by the G&M and other journalists such as Andrew Coyne. You'd think that the Liberals and NDP could at least refrain from attacking each other over it. Especially since the same Forum poll, if correct, claimed that over 60% of Liberals are actually against C-51. Sad.
The failure of the NDP and the Liberals to cooperate, Anon, may very well permit Harper to come up the middle this October. It seems that neither of the other two leaders is able to put his lust for the top job into its proper perspective and think of Canada's well being first.
DeleteAs a resident of rural Ontario, I can confirm that my neighbours don't buy Harper's flapdoodle.
ReplyDeleteYet the man is always claiming he speaks for most Canadians, Owen.
Delete" My father spent his early days on grand-dad’s horse ranch in the Cypress Hills where the ethic was to keep one’s doors open, whether at home or not, for anyone who needed shelter and a meal " - Jerry Thompson, Ottawa
ReplyDeleteI believe Jerry Thompson is onto something here; Harper, who grew up in Toronto [city slicker] does not appreciate that the vast majority of his Rural Reform/TheoCon constituents, would sooner anticipate offering a meal, as opposed to a bullet, to a 'stranger' coming up the drive...
Even if the [unarmed] stranger had violent intention, you'd be in one big heap-o-trouble, for de-cloking yur Winchester and letting fire...
Once again, Harper is playing to the [relatively minor] emotional illogical side of his socially crippled flock. The challenge is that plain ole [relatively larger] progressively conservative folk, get drawn in and hornswaggled.
An excellent point, T Reashore. Harper has tarnished all who are conservative by his mad policies that appeal only to the unbalanced few.
Delete.. how strange.. a pastey pudgey introvert from Leaside droning about guns, via his western wife's background & supported by his trusty partisan Jenni Byrne via her Fenelon Falls recollections. Its a complete load of classic rancid Harper baloney. The girls are just more of the phony folksy schtick to distract from the laughable grammar & dim rationale coming from the PM whenever he or a minion expounds on 'obviously, a majority of Canadians', 'Canadian values'.. and faves like standing with Israel, exporting to China.. blah blah woof woof
ReplyDeleteHarper is just checking off a list of factions who need a bone.. and being his usual smarmy mealy duplicious self while dispensing more divisive dogma as he goes. Its his distorted view.. that he's nation building.. when actually he is without remorse, shredding and dividing to split votes while scrambling to pull his own committed votes together. Its all about the base, all about the votes, all about the base.. and trashing, dividing, discouraging all other votes and voters.
An apt evisceration of a man and his regime bent on eviscerating Canada, virtue by virtue, Salamander.
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