Gun control in all its idiocy: Ex-soldier faces jail for handing in gun
Judge Christopher Critchlow said: “This is an unusual case, but in law there is no dispute that Mr Clarke has no defence to this charge.
“The intention of anybody possessing a firearm is irrelevant.”
In other news, a dangerous convicted murderer is allowed out on an escorted shopping trip and disappears. Sorry Brits, but your country is hopelessly fu**ed up.
h/t: Dominion Pundit on Twitter via Constantly Furious
UPDATE: Commenter Bill (below) suggests — quite rightly — that I’m being too smug in thinking that Canada isn’t similarly screwed up. You got me — I don’t think we’re quite as bad as the UK (re: sharia and all that), but like real conservative says below, the UK seems to be our “testing ground.”
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No offence meant, but I find the detached mocking of the paranoid/draconian UK gun laws somewhat disturbing. What makes you think Canada escaped this type of total criminal liability police state dementia?
Canada’s federal gun law is identical in its complete (no defense or excuses) criminal liability of possession of a firearm – even noncriminal unintentional possession is punishable, and has been punished. Believe me I have sat in on the proceedings – yes many of these firearms cases involving confiscation and revokation occur in a tribunal like ‘hearing’ outside the scope or protections of legitimate court.
I recall one case of entrapment where police wanted to ‘get’ a firearm dealer who had been vocal against the new long gun registry law and they payed his residence a surprise visit when he was at work. His wife answered the door, allowed the police in to ‘inspect’ his storage facilities. They asked his wife if she would open the gun safe so they could inspect the firearms. She complied and was charged for unauthorized care and control of firearms And some 100s of thousands of dollars worth of custom grade and antique sporting arms were confiscated.
Although the firearms were all legal, all registered properly and stored properly, the possession licence was in the husband’s name, the wife had no firearms licence or a registered firearm. Because she had access to the safe the guns were stored in (they also stored bonds and valuables of hers in that safe so she had the safe combination) she was deemed to have unauthorized access and when she took a gun out of the safe and handed it to the cop (as ordered to) she was in illegal possession and summarily charged.
True case – one of many similar and just one of thousands where the total criminal liability of the firearms law was used maliciously and abusively by police to confiscate legally registered firearms. Most recently we saw the Toronto police chief abuse the firearms law to confiscate thousands of legally owned firearms on paperwork renewal technicalities (no criminal or malicious intent there but untimely paperwork filing puts them in 100% criminal liability).
Don’t mock the rigid fascism of the UK big brother police state, we have our own version right here.
Yes, you’re right, I was being a bit too smug, wasn’t I. Canada is fu**ed up in its own way.
Too bad that couple didn’t have a plan in place for the police arriving when the husband wasn’t home. She should have refused to open the safe and called her husband instead. Of course, it’s a natural reaction for people — especially law-abiding types — to comply with the police.
Said for years that England is the testing ground for what they want to do here next.
Keep on electing those socialists and we can paint ourselves into that picture.
Have any of you fine folks it Toronto read this?
It’s quite likely the gun was hidden by a criminal type who intended to come back for it later. The chap who turned it in did exactly the right thing,as any number of disastrous scenarios could have occurred if he’d merely phoned police with a report of a suspicious looking package in his garden.
I hate to misuse the language but,as you said above,”your Country is hopelessly f**ed up”.
I’ll bet he’s wishing now that he hadn’t done the “right thing.”
Natasha, this one just boggles my mind. Much like Canada, it seems, the U.K. doesn’t have a justice system anymore — just a legal system. Simply appalling … or as my dear, departed Irish grandmother use to say, “Desperate, simply desperate!”
Yes, Canada’s pretty bad, but I think the UK still tops us for appalling stupidity. Though it sure seems we’re racing forward in that direction.
The law is an ass.Its practitioners are more concerned about the process than about the actual justice.
Perhaps the courts would have preferred that a child find the shotgun and accidentally shoot one of his or her mates.
I used to think the law has some basis in common sense — boy was I naive.
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