HAMILTON’S GUN BAN IDEA IS FOOLISH

By CSSA

GUEST COMMENTARY by Brian Lilley

The video released by Hamilton Police of Sunday’s broad daylight shooting is disturbing. I was born and raised in Hamilton and have driven that section of road more times than I can count, I’ll likely drive it next time I visit home.

A group of men engaged in a shootout on a busy urban road is something that should disturb us all, but in calling for a gun ban as his solution, Mayor Fred Eisenberger has violated one of my key rules for life – better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool, than open your mouth and prove it.

“I think we should really try to ban guns in this city. I don’t know if we can do it. I haven’t fleshed out the constitutional issues,” Eisenberger said at city hall.

Now of course a municipality cannot ban guns and Eisenberger, a bit of a career politician who has also run federally for the Conservative Party, should know better. The fact that he is saying this tells me he either isn’t serious or simply opened his mouth and proved himself a fool.

Unfortunately, Eisenberger didn’t stop with his question on the constitutionality of …read more

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