Blame America: The new Canadian anti-gun slogan.

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Published on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 00:00

Written by Jeff Garvas

You might not be a fan of the "adult" South Park Cartoon series that has been a hit on Comedy Central for some time. Those of you not entertained by childish or sometime stupid humor might even be disappointed that we're about to quote it. Sadly, it fits here.

However, those of you who are familiar with the show might see the irony between a popular South Park song and the recent tragic shooting spree that has taken place in Toronto during "Boxing Day" (the day after Christmas).

Believe it or not, you and I and every other American are apparently responsible for the shooting spree that took place in Canada. Seriously!

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South Park's creators are responsible for a song sung by the parents of South Park who are looking for someone to blame for their unruly children, and their solution is to just blame Canada:

Times have changed,
Our kids are getting worse
They won't obey their parents,
They just want to fart and curse.
Should we blame the government, or blame society, or should we blame the images on tv?
NO!
Blame Canada! Blame Canada

The "moral" of the story and the ending lyrics make the motive clear: We need to blame someone before someone blames us, or before the parents of South Park need to realize that they themselves are responsible for their children becoming unruly.

In the wake of a shooting spree that killed a 15 year-old girl and wounded six other people Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Toronto Mayor David Miller are doing exactly what the fictional parents in the South Park song did in a sense.

Instead of looking at themselves, their society, and their own laws to determine exactly why a surge in shootings is taking place in Canada they're blaming the United States for "exporting gun violence" into Canada.

They're doing it with a straight face and a blind eye to reality, too.

Never mind the fact that Canada has enacted one of the most expensive failures in gun registry and proposed confiscation in recent memory.

Remember the phrase that registration leads to confiscation? Canada has spent billions of dollars identifying just who has the guns they now want to confiscate. Since the Canadian Government probably won't be able to account for the guns used in this recent crime how can they explain the failure of a multi-billion dollar registration scheme?

We reported last October that the Canadian anti-gun efforts have cost tax-payers billions (Canadian) and that Ottawa County was investing another $273 million dollars to disarm and register Canadian gun owners:

Canada: Cost of Failed Gun Registration Scheme Continue to Rise

Four days after that story on our website, Prime Minister Paul Martin came out declaring that the United States was the source of most guns confiscated in Canada:

Canadian Prime Minister Talking Tough with U.S. on Gun Control

On December 8th, the Canadian Liberal Party announced that they would ban all handguns in Canada:

The Liberal government is addressing the escalation of gun violence in Canadian cities by proposing an immediate ban on handguns as part of a five-part strategy to make our communities safer, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced in Toronto today.

Nobody shopping on Boxing Day had a firearm to defend themselves with, yet the criminal element in Canada has decided to take up arms in a surge of violent and senseless crime against Canadians.

We'll never know what might have happened on the 26th of December had just one person in the crowd had a lawfully concealed firearm and a clear shot at the killers. Would the girl have survived?

Instead of empowering the citizens of Canada with the right and the choice to defend themselves the Liberal government's solution just weeks before this deadly shooting was to disarm every citizen (they obviously know who has guns, they've been registering gun owners since 2001) and that will somehow protect society from criminals who have no respect for laws or life in the first place.

If you're not paying attention friends, this is what the anti-gun crowd in the United States wants to do: Disarm you and pretend that everyone is disarmed while their heads are buried in the sand and criminals, such as those in the Canadian shooting, do what they please.

In a late edition CNN story last night, Canada blames U.S. for gun violence, one Canadian seems to be calling his own government out for their blame game:

John Thompson, a security analyst with the Toronto-based Mackenzie Institute, says the number of guns smuggled from the United States is a problem, but that Canada has a gang problem -- not a gun problem -- and that Canada should stop pointing the finger at the United States.

"It's a cop out. It's an easy way of looking at one symptom rather than addressing a whole disease," Thompson said.

Two suspects were arrested and at least one firearm was seized soon after the shootings Monday. Kyriacou said it was an illegal handgun.

Of course, in the short term, they've decided to fall back on the lyrics of the South Park song and blame the United States before someone decided to blame the Canadian Liberal party for creating a culture of disarmed sheep:

The smut we must stop
The trash we must smash
Laughter and fun
must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!

Personally, I blame Canada for disarming it's citizens and then trying to use the significantly different social and economical issues that face the United States for their failure to protect citizens in the imaginary utopia that is the Canadian Gun Registry.

It will only get worse if Canadian government officials move forward with disarming the average citizen in the name of "safer communities" only to make them sitting ducks, as we've seen in many other countries.

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