Gun Control And the Women Who Made It A Canadian Value

Growing up in Montreal I was haunted by the picture of these murdered women. 

Murdered at the École Polytechnique more than 30-years-ago.

Savagely slaughtered just for being women, by a man who hated feminists.

Rescuing The Legacy Of The Montreal Massacre

In Montreal this evening fourteen light beams will rise from the top of Mount Royal, one by one into the sky. 

One for every woman murdered in the École Polytechnique Massacre 30-years-ago.

Murdered just for being women, by a man who hated feminists.



They were so young, they were so full of hope in the future.



Only to have their dreams of being engineers, so long reserved for men, brutally extinguished in a few murderous minutes.

And then have their legacy defiled by Stephen Harper and his bestial Cons.

Who like the Scheer Cons cared more about god and guns, than they cared about women and girls.

And didn't give a damn about the effects of gun violence. 



The bastards.

I remember how angry I used to be to see the gun lobby treat the murdered women as The Enemy for making them look bad.

I remember how they insisted that the massacre was the work of a madman not a misogynist.

And how some of them threatened to kill me for refusing to believe that cowardly lie.

So I can't tell you how relieved I am to see that after thirty years, attitudes are finally changing. 

At last, 30 years later, the reluctance of officialdom to call what happened what it was has been made right. 

A new sign has just gone up in the Place-du-6-décembre-1989, a memorial park at the base of the U of M campus, on the corner of Decelles Street and Queen Mary Road. 



The old sign said only that there had been a tragedy. The new sign states that 14 women were murdered in an anti-feminist attack at École Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989. 

It condemns all forms of violence against women.

And that the legacy of the Montreal Massacre is finally being rescued.

It also makes me happy to know that we now have a prime minister who supports women's rights, and is proud to call himself a feminist.



Who is working to curb gun violence.

And who will be on Mount Royal tonight when those fourteen beams of light rise into the sky.



So after so many years I can at last feel sure that the legacy of those murdered women will live on.

Always remember their names.

Geneviève Bergeron, 21 - Hélène Colgan, 23 - Nathalie Croteau, 23 - Barbara Daigneault, 22 - Anne-Marie Edward, 21 - Maud Haviernick, 29 - Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, 31 - Maryse Laganière, 25 - Maryse Leclair, 23 - Anne-Marie Lemay, 22 - Sonia Pelletier, 23 - Michèle Richard, 21 - Anne St-Arneault, 23 - Annie Turcotte, 21

Always honour their memory...



And keep their precious legacy alive.

By demanding an end to the violence against women and girls.

And fighting forever for a more equal world...

Remembering the Murdered Women of the École Polytechnique.

In Montreal this evening, fourteen rays of light will rise into the sky, one after the other, from the summit of Mount Royal.

So all Montrealers can see them, and remember the fourteen young women who were murdered twenty eight years ago today at the École Polytechnique.

Murdered by a man who hated women.

Remembering the Legacy of the Montreal Massacre

I had just finished my last post, about Donald Trump's plans to all but eliminate gun controls in the United States.

When I suddenly remembered that tonight fourteen beams of light will rise into the sky from the summit of Mount Royal, so all Montrealers can see them.

And remember what happened on a snowy day in that city twenty-seven years ago today.

When a man who hated women went on a bloody rampage at the École Polytechnique.

The Montreal Massacre and the Never-ending Violence Against Women

At a time when the United States is going through yet another spasm of gun violence.

And I see how some wing nut in that country reacted to this editorial in the New York Times. 



I'm glad that I live in Canada, and grateful that today is National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

And that Justin Trudeau, our new Prime Minister attended a ceremony on Mount Royal, where 14 beams on light were projected into the sky.

To remember these Canadian victims of gun violence.

Is It Time To Shame Those Who Still Support the Cons?

It was a magnificent and moving sight, fourteen beams of light reaching into the sky from the top of Montreal's Mount Royal.

One for each of the women murdered at the École Polytechnique, in the shadow of the mountain where I want my ashes scattered, twenty-five years ago.

But as beautiful as that sight was, for some reason it also reminded me that I live in the darkness of Harperland.

Where the points of light are few and far between, and all is ugly and CRAZY.

The Montreal Massacre and the Con War on Women

And now it has been twenty five years, since that that snowy day in Montreal, when a man with a gun stole the lives of so many young women.

And this year that sad anniversary has never seemed so poignant and painful, with all the stories in the news about the never-ending violence against women.

As if we had learned nothing, as if they had died for nothing.

As if we had forgotten that it was that same bestial, senseless, cowardly hatred that drove their killer to unleash his murderous violence upon them...

The Montreal Massacre and the Con War on Women

In my sadness over the death of Nelson Mandela, and because I'm so tired, I forgot that Friday was the anniversary of a monumental Canadian tragedy.

That on a snowy day in Montreal twenty four years ago, an angry man with a gun stormed through an engineering school and killed fourteen young women. 

Fourteen young women who were killed in Canada’s worst mass shooting were remembered on Friday amid repeated calls for more to be done to eradicate violence against women.

The Montreal Massacre and the Shameless Cons

It's hard to believe that it's been 23 years since their lives ended so suddenly and so brutally.

Their faces still stare out at us, so young and full of hope.

If they had lived some of them might have kids in university today. And some of their daughters might be studying to be engineers, striding confidently down a road that their mothers helped pave.

For let's never forget that they were pioneers, proud young women making a place for other women, in a male dominated profession. And that's why Marc Lepine killed them.

The Montreal Massacre and the Murdered Legacy

I'm glad the Harper Cons weren't invited to this sad ceremony on Parliament Hill.

For how could those grotesque Cons mourn those murdered women? When they are greasing up their guns to murder their legacy.

“Even as we mourn the 14 women killed at l’École Polytechnique, this government is taking the last remaining safeguard off the very weapon that murdered these women,” Ms. Turmel said. “The Conservatives are recklessly dismantling the only positive thing to come out of the tragic events of Dec. 6.”

Spitting on their graves, and shattering the lives of those who loved them, and along with so many others worked so hard for 22 years to make Canada a safer place.

Free from this kind of violence... 

Requiem for the Long-Gun Registry

If you've followed my little blog over the years you know how I feel about the long-gun registry. So you can imagine how I feel tonight.

Stephen Harper has begun the process of shuttering Canada’s long-gun registry, tabling a bill to scrap a database on firearms owners that for rank-and-file Conservatives stood as a powerful symbol of everything that’s wrong with big government.

Determined to drive a stake through the heart of the registry, which cost more than $2-billion to establish, the Tories are going so far as to destroy the data.

And I'm SURE you know how I feel about Candy Hoeppner...

“They’re upstanding citizens who work hard. They take their kids and grandkids out hunting and shooting and those kids, by the way, probably aren’t involved in gangs in the streets,” she said.

“These are good salt-of-the-earth people and for so long they have had really nobody in government who has been able to make any changes on their behalf.

As if they're upstanding citizens and those who live in cities i.e. most Canadians, are criminals. As if we should feel sorry for those too cheap, too dumb, or too paranoid to fill out a form. And register a gun like they register so many other things.

As if it was all about criminals instead of helping to protect the lives of police officers and paramedics. As if it was all about farmers and hunters instead of mental illness.

Or domestic abuse:

Or protecting the lives of women.

As if the Cons aren't the real criminals for endangering the lives of so many Canadians.

As if their decision to destroy the data wasn't an outrage against democracy.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said today that all the records of the gun registry are being destroyed for one reason -- to thwart future, more gun-registry-friendly governments.

And Stephen Harper wasn't a crazed authoritarian.

From last week, in the House of Commons:

(Stephen Harper) Mr. Speaker, the law of our constitutional system is extremely clear. A previous government cannot bind a future government to its policy.

Or a lying maniac who would do ANYTHING to change Canada beyond recognition.

But of course what bothers me the most is the way those misogynistic Cons are defiling the memory of the murdered women of the École Polytechnique...

And all those who worked so hard in their name to make Canada less of a gun-friendly society. A gentler, safer place.

How soon people forget the horror of gun violence...



But I won't forget. I vow tonight that however long it takes, however hard the struggle, that I will work to unite progressives, defeat the Cons, bring back the registry, and take back my country from those rabid teabaggers who would turn it into Amerika.

Oh boy. Tomorrow I'll be angry. Tonight I'm thinking of those poor murdered young women, and all those who loved them.

And I'm just so sorry...

The Sorrow, the Shame, and the Struggle

It was a cold, grey, afternoon in Montreal.

There was snow on the ground, and freezing rain in the trees.

At the school in the shadow of the Mountain, it was the last day before the holiday break.

Until, without warning, everything changed forever...



Twenty-one years ago. Fourteen women dead. Killed just because they were women. 

For decent Canadians it's a day of sorrow.For Stephen Harper's misogynist Cons it's just another day of shame.

"The reason I came to this was because the Conservatives were not part of it. If they would have been part of it, I would not have come."

"I don't think they have any right to commemorate Dec. 6 because they've done everything they can to destroy one of the main good things that came out of the tragedy, which is the gun control law."

For me, one of the few good things that happened this year was that we were able to save the gun registry. And preserve the precious legacy of those poor murdered women.

Because as Sabina Becker at News of the Restless reminds us, it's not good enough just to mourn them. Every day is their day. And the struggle continues. 

You can run us down with horses, or gun us down with Rugers--we are still here. You can mouth platitudes while slyly trying to take away what we have won, but we won't let you. We are onto you. We reject your "respect" and your "appropriate" tokenism. We are still grieving, still raging and still fighting, because deep down in our blood, we know we are not equal yet.

And we are not going the hell away.

Yup. The struggle continues. I'm just an ordinary guy, with all the strengths and strutting weaknesses of my gender. Sometimes I can be great... on a bike. Sometimes I'm ridiculous. And I still get into too many fights.

But I hate guns. I believe in a kinder, gentler world where EVERYONE is equal. I won't be free until my sisters are.

So every day is their day.

And I will REMEMBER...

What the Gun Registry Vote Means to Me

It was close, it was divisive, just as Great Ugly Leader hoped it would be, but in the end my country won today.

Canada ONE. Amerika ZERO.

I'll talk about the porky politics in my next post.  

But right now all I want to say is this:

Michele, Natalie, Annie, Sonia, and all my other poor beautiful sisters.

The foul AmeriCons tried to dishonour your memory.

And destroy your legacy.

But we didn't let them...

The Gun Registry: A Vote to Take Back Canada

It was a beautiful day in the Great White North. The kind of early fall day I love. When the wind is cool and fresh, and my Canada so peaceful and beautiful.

But all I could think about was the clock on this sinister Con site, ticking down to the vote on the gun registry.

And how I wish I could get the news it had been saved, while sitting under a tree at this monument in Montreal to the murdered women of the École Polytechnique.












Or sitting in the gallery of the House of Commons with the amazing woman whose battle to try to extract good out of tragedy has helped make Canada safer.

“The gun registry is the one good thing that came out of the Montreal tragedy,” Laplante-Edward said. “It is a monument to our daughters.”

“We did not do this for ourselves – our loss is permanent. We worked so that others would not have to live through the hell we experienced – and still do.”

I support the gun registry because it works, and I believe it contributes to saving the lives of police officers, women, and all kinds of other Canadians.

But I feel so strongly about it because to scrap it would be to dishonour the memory of all those women murdered on that terrible day.

Long past midnight the police spokesman came in and told us, in French: “We have 14 dead. They are all women.” I turned to Marie-Claude Lortie, a colleague from La Presse, and we hugged, briefly and silently, to try to ease our pain.

The pain of parents and survivors of Marc Lepine’s murderous rampage brought us the long-gun registry.

And because killing the registry would deal a brutal blow to the gentler, less violent society, that so many people like Laplante-Edward have worked so hard for so long to create.

Far too many gun lovers too lazy, dumb, or paranoid to fill out a form, seem to have forgotten where they live. In a country called Canada not Amerika. Where guns are a privilege not a right.

Five years later, the Supreme Court beat back a bid to establish that Canadians have the same constitutional right as Americans to possess and use firearms. Not so, the court ruled. It said gun ownership is not a right in Canada. It is a privilege and, properly, a heavily regulated privilege.

Unfortunately some of the craziness called America has leaked across the border. Some of our gun nutters are now no more than teabaggers.Who love their guns more than they love our values.

Which is why today's vote is really a vote about the kind of country we want to live in.

And a test for the opposition.

The vote will not precipitate an election; it is a private member's bill, after all. But it will set the tone for the fall. It will signal how hard the Harper government will try to push Parliament — and how far Parliament will consent to be pushed.

We have been pushed long enough. Those foul Con bullies think that we are weak because we are decent. But we are only weak because we are divided.

And now is the time to unite and push back. 

Starting with the gun registry vote today, we will begin to take our beautiful country and its values back from the death grip of Stephen Harper and his Con thugs.

And at the same time send a message to the gun nutter teabaggers.

“Guns kill not only bodies but also souls.”

We don't want to live in your kind of country. We want to live in Canada not Amerika.

We will defeat you.

And we will REMEMBER...

Gun Violence and the Other Victims

When I write about the victims of gun violence, I don't just think about those whose lives were snuffed out in an instant, by the simple pull of a trigger.

I also think about the survivors and how many other lives were ruined.

Like those who survived the Montreal Massacre.

The injured and witnesses among university staff and students suffered a variety of physical, social, existential, financial, and psychological consequences, including post-traumatic stress disorder. A number of students committed suicide. In the suicide letters of at least two of them, the anguish they suffered following the massacre was cited as the reason for killing themselves.

And those who survived this other day of horror.

















A groundbreaking study on fallout of the 2006 shooting at Dawson College in Montreal reveals that nearly one-third of students and staff suffered from psychological trauma in the years after the event.

The study, released Thursday in Montreal, said 30 per cent of people surveyed suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, a major depression, alcohol dependence or a social phobia as a direct result of what they experienced.

Which is why I support any and every measure designed to control firearms and discourage gun ownership in Canada, especially in urban areas. 

You know... I looked at the angry words I wrote the night of the Dawson horror.

And four years later I feel sad rather than angry. But I still consider gun control, like medicare,  one of the things that sets Canada apart from the United States. One of the things that makes me proud to be Canadian.

I still despise Stephen Harper's Cons for putting their foul ideology before reason and the lives of their own people.

And now after this latest attack on the gun registry, I have absolutely no sympathy for gun owners too lazy, selfish, dumb, and paranoid to fill out a form.

There is no second amendment in this country, no "sacred right" to bear weapons. So if the gun nutz don't like it they should feel free to move to the United States.

Go vote for Sarah Palin.

Or go sing a long with the Terminator...



Yup. They can keep Amerika eh?

I'll keep my kinder, gentler Canada.

I still believe this:

If we want to save the kids. As well as ourselves.

We have to save our country first.

And I will REMEMBER...

The Gun Registry, the Chiefs, and the Women

I'm glad to see the police chiefs of this country have sent a strong message to gun lovers everywhere. We are not Amerika. And we support the long gun registry

Despite the Con attempts to intimidate them.

And Edmonton Constable Randy Kuntz's ridiculous "survey."

Kuntz organized a straw poll of officers earlier this year through a police member's forum called Blue Line. He said 92 per cent of the 2,631 respondents to his "simple survey" voted in favour of scrapping the registry.

Which I don't believe for a moment. Because I wouldn't trust the gun lobby as far as I can spit. I trust the facts. The long-gun registry does work. It does save lives.

And when these gun nutters say it doesn't make a difference when police officers are called to intervene in some problem, I beg to differ. So do the officers who use it  14-thousand times a DAY. And so does she. 

A family contacted their local police because the father was in a depressed state and they wanted the police to remove all of the firearms from their home. Family members told the police what firearms were in the house. Local police then checked the long gun registry online, which revealed an additional 21 long guns in the home that other family members knew nothing about. Police obtained a warrant and removed all the guns.

The long gun registry costs Canadians $4.1 million a year to operate to track nearly 7 million guns — about 60 cents a year per firearm. With 100,000 women and children leaving their homes in Canada each year fleeing violence, and almost 600 missing and murdered Aboriginal women, the long gun registry is an essential national investment. Does it save lives? On the facts alone: Yes.

And quite frankly on this issue I'd rather hear from women than any other group of Canadians. Because they are so often the victims.

Women have the most to lose if the long-gun registry is abandoned. During domestic violence calls, police use the registry to check if a long-gun is on site. Statistics from the Domestic Violence Death Review Committee found firearms to be present in 47% of domestic homicides in 2007. A woman is 12 times more likely to be murdered if a gun is involved in domestic violence, and the guns most commonly used in domestic violence are long guns, not handguns.

There is a problem with the registry because the Cons have been encouraging gun lovers not to register their guns, so the data is being compromised. We're losing track of guns all over the country.

But the answer is to crack down on those too dumb, too lazy, or too paranoid to fill out a form.

Not throw out a useful tool, and turn our country into Amerika.

I admit I want to discourage gun use in Canada. Especially in urban areas. I hate societies full of weapons. I hate the fact that they threaten police officers, paramedics, firefighters, and ordinary citizens.

And some of the people I love.

But most of all I hate what they do to women.

And I will not FORGET...



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P.S. Gun lovers please spare me your comments. I was willing to argue with you to try to find a compromise. But you wanted all or nothing. So you can have NOTHING...

Elton John, Rush Limbaugh, and the Gun Registry

Oh boy. You know it's a confusing world.

 When a gay man sings for a homophobe.

Maybe it was a bout of temporary amnesia brought on by a sudden increase in cash flow, since Page2Live says Rush is reportedly paying Elton more than $1 million to perform?

And a feminist attacks the gun registry.

If some of the rural NDP MPs break ranks with their party and vote to ditch the Long Gun Registry, they will be doing so in direct response to their constituents, not to further some dimwitted cultural crusade.

Dimwitted cultural crusade? Who knew eh? I thought it was a lot more than that.

And my definition of dimwitted includes those too dumb or lazy to fill out a form.

But then like most Canadians I'm an urban dweller.

And I'm from Montreal...



Where the legacy of those murdered women is not a dimwitted cultural crusade. It's a sacred  bloody CAUSE.

Oh well. Live and learn. It's only the internet eh?

And it's only because I want a kinder, gentler, world that some things mean a lot to me. Maybe more than they should.

But still...

When I first saw this video that wasn't released for years because it was considered too gay.

I used to play it all the time...



Now I'll never play it again. Even though I still love it.

Live and learn. It's a confusing world.

Don't shoot it's only Simon !!!!!

Have a great weekend everyone...

The Montreal Massacre and the Great Betrayal

I wish I had been back in Montreal today to lay 14 white roses at the base of this humble monument.

And remember all the murdered women.

And the snowy afternoon their young lives were snuffed out, by a man with a gun.

In a frenzy of misogynist violence.



I've left flowers before. It's always a sad occasion. But this year would have been the saddest anniversary of all, because of the great betrayal.

The sickening event that I wrote about in November, here and here.

I think they were the hardest posts I've ever written. I took quite a bit of heat for them, even from some friends. And I found out today, that last post elicited this comment from another Progressive Blogger.

I’m sorry, but an emotional appeal to that tragedy does not a good argument make.

In fact, trotting their memory out to appeal to your own partisan gains is distasteful and disgusting.

Can you believe that ? Too emotional about a massacre. Or the lives of women and police officers, and paramedics. Must be my feminine side eh?

Distasteful and disgusting for attacking Harper's Cons, for scrapping the gun registry and assaulting women's rights from the very moment they came to power?

Oh boy. Am I dreaming or is the world upside down? I guess I wasn't clear enough.

So I should just say I AM a gentle and emotional person, and I do believe in a kinder, gentler, world ....where feminist values predominate over those of the bloodthirsty patriarchy who are leading us all to destruction.

But I'm also a fighter, in the ring or out, and when it comes to the Cons I'm not gentle at all. Because I believe that if we are going to beat those political thugs who are raping our precious Canadian values, we have to be tougher than they are.

That's not going to change. And I'm never going to change my mind on the gun registry either, because my vision of a better world is one with as few guns as possible. And of course because too many women are being killed by them.

Federal figures show most domestic murders involve long guns - 62 per cent of the total, according to the most recent numbers available - and most victims are women.

"No gun law will prevent all tragedies. This one is imperfect. But there's evidence it's had an impact. The question is, do you want to make it easier or harder for people to get a gun?"

In fact, I don't think I'm going to change anything. Because that's what I take away from this tragedy.The only positive thing. And the only way I could face those names on that humble monument without bowing my head in shame.

By vowing that their legacy will not be forgotten. And that despite the great betrayal, we will get to that kinder gentler world.

The struggle WILL continue.

And I will never FORGET...

The Appalling Betrayal of Feminism

I didn't want to write about these women again. It bothers me too much. I've already said what I wanted to say.

But the thought that so many appear to have forgotten them makes me so angry, I feel I just have to keep speaking out.

Or let people like Susan Riley say what I would say.

What a bitter spectacle: MPs from all parties, except the Bloc Québécois, caving to a decades-long campaign by disgruntled gun owners, to U.S.-inspired attack advertising in targeted ridings and to self-interest to issue a death warrant to the long-gun registry

They capitulated to a well-orchestrated disinformation effort, rather than fighting back with reasoned argument and proposed improvements to the existing registry -- rather, that is, than appealing to values, values they conveniently ditched to save their skins.

Dismissed, also, are the victims -- relatives of the women killed at the École Polytechnique, modern-day parents like Elaine Lumley, whose son was shot dead crossing a street in Montreal in 2007. Lumley was on the Hill this week, shocked and stricken by the vote -- but she couldn't get a hearing, perhaps because she doesn't fall into the Tories' approved victim category.

If they were more concerned with fighting crime than scoring ideological victories, our MPs would find a way to fix the registry, not ditch it. Instead, this week's reversal is a symbolic and emotional blow to victims of gun crime -- and a disgrace to their skittish supporters.

Because it's all so true. it is a bitter spectacle. And it is an appalling betrayal.

Not only are these ReformCons forgetting the women of the Polytechnique, they're stripping their deaths of meaning. And dismissing 20 years of heroic feminist struggle to try to make Canada a safer place.

By taking on the powerful gun lobby, and the women hating Cons who would turn Canada into a blood soaked mirror image of gun crazy Amerika.

Long guns are the most common type of firearm used in spousal homicide, according to the RCMP. With restrictions in place against them, the number of women murdered with firearms dropped by 62 per cent between 1991 and 2004.

So where are the progressive voices of protest? Where are all the strong feminists? Why the deafening silence?

Did these women really die in vain?









Did one of the most important feminist struggles in modern Canadian history really mean nothing?

Didn't we learn ANYTHING?

And what kind of country are we becoming?

Those are the questions that haunt me.

As they should haunt us all...

The Gun Registry and Progressive Bloggers

Oh no.What bad timing for the Reform Cons. It's gun hate day in Amerika.

Just 24 hours after their disgusting little gun love day in Canada.

And can you believe those scummy Cons? They hid this report until after the vote was over. Even though it it involves the safety of police officers. Those dastardly crime police busters.

And can you believe that so many progressives MPs folded like cheap suits or cowards?

By caving in on a Reform Party style free vote...instead of acting like members of a party with PRINCIPLES. What will the next "free vote" be on I wonder... ABORTION?

But what I also found disheartening was the number of progressive bloggers celebrating the death of the Gun Registry. Including some of the best, most decent and progressive ones.

I'm not going to single anybody out, or deal with their arguments. I dealt with most of them last night.

But I would ask ALL of those progressive bloggers why NONE of them bothered to mention that filling out a form could save the life of a police officer?

Does the kinder gentler Canada we are trying to build really include a society full of unlicensed guns? What does progressive really mean? Because I'm confused eh?

And how, since some of them are such strong feminists, could they all have forgotten to mention the women of the Montreal Massacre?








Not just the ones who died or were injured, but all the others who fought the powerful gun lobby for years to bring in the gun registry, and make sure the victims didn't die in vain.

People like Suzanne LaPlante-Edward who believes a gun registry might have saved her daughter. (PDF)

We victims of gun violence want more than tears, white ribbons, and kind words. We want action. The semi-automatic Ruger Mini 14 used at the Polytechnique in Montreal is still sold as an unrestricted hunting rifle. With C-391 we will no longer know who owns these guns or the 7 million other rifles and shotguns in Canada. In most cities there will be more information about who has cats and dogs than who owns firearms.

Doesn't her opinion count? Or the opinions of so many other victims of gun violence. Isn't it worth more than the yapping of gun owners too lazy to fill out some forms...or the teabagger screeching of the Con's rabid Reform base?

You know a month today we will mark the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. And I can't think of a better way for some progressives to prepare, than reading up on that terrible day.Studying the history of the heroic feminist struggle that followed.

Fighting to FIX the gun registry ...if it needs fixing...rather than letting these ReformCons and their stooges DESTROY it.

Or as I said yesterday, just watching this movie...



Because we need to decide what sort of a gentler, kinder, more civilized society we want to build.

And we really need to REMEMBER...