Happiness is a Banned Gun
Canada's Liberal party announced today that if it wins in the upcoming January 23rd national election, it will seek to ban all handguns. It goes without saying that this would be both an obscenely positive policy and a reform that is too progressive and intelligent to be passed here, in the land of the Right To Keep and Bear Arms.
It seems particularly fitting that this news comes on a day when the world mourns the death of John Lennon, shot dead 25 years ago this evening with a Charter Arms .38 (the photo above, courtesy of New York magazine, is the actual gun). The small service revolver is popular among law enforcement officials. Former security guard Mark David Chapman legally purchased the weapon for $197 at a Honolulu gun store several months before he flew to New York to kill his idol.
Would an outright ban on handguns have saved the life of John Lennon? It's impossible to determine. All that Canada's Liberal Party seems to be saying is that it's willing to give peace a chance.
Comments
That's a very interesting question. I've played "Imagine" a few times today as I've remembered the night I heard the news break about his death.
Posted by: Sidney | December 8, 2005 06:59 PM
I am very chagrinned and depressed about the loss of MEE NOODLE. I miss Alan and Esther daily and my diet has gone to the pitts. It is also a very very dangerous corner there at 1st ave and 13th st....and the whole thing sucks
Posted by: Royaleen | January 1, 2006 03:41 PM