McGuinty calls car `loaded gun'

Time has been tight recently to follow up on some of the new issues, like the outright silliness from Jean Charest, premier of Quebec and the foolish "Anastasia's law" (what a truly sad legacy for a beautiful young girl). And what was Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant doing there? Trip paid for by the Liberal Party, I hope, because he was their to promote the Liberal Party agenda, not the business of Ontario.

Reader DF comments below on Dalton McGuinty's statements today that cars are as dangerous as "loaded guns". So, I guess we can expect a call to ban all cars - they do kill more people every year than guns do. Dalton, if no call to ban cars, why not? Or are you just the hypocrite the comment makes you out to be? Does David Miller know cars kill more people than guns? Why is he silent? Did Michael Bryant carry Dalton's message to Jean Charest that cars are as dangerous as loaded guns, and they should be banned too? Who paid for your trip, Michael?
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Clearly - based on Premier McGuinty's comments - this is a bigger threat to public safety than firearms of any kind. Take a look at the numbers of vehicles that are out there. How many of them are used recklessly every day? How many violent incidents go by daily that are unchecked (so called Road Rage)? There are more injuries and fatalities reported related to motor vehicles that there have ever been related to firearms.

Clearly there needs to be a movement to urge Premier McGuinty to take the next LOGICAL step - given the GRAVE threat that these motor vehicles pose there should be an ALL-ENCOMPASSING BAN.

Make's sense , don't it???


Excerpt from Toronto Star Today:

McGuinty calls car `loaded gun' TheStar.com - News - McGuinty calls car `loaded gun'
June 19, 2007
CANADIAN PRESS
Premier Dalton McGuinty says a car is like "a loaded gun," and drivers must ask themselves if it is worth it to speed and drive recklessly.
McGuinty was commenting on a massive accident on Highway 400 on Monday in which police say high speeds and dangerous driving were likely factors.
Three men face a total of 11 charges in the crash that killed a tractor-trailer driver.
The crash was the third major accident in four days on the busy north-south highway, and the second fatal one.
McGuinty says when drivers are reckless they endanger the lives of somebody's father, somebody's husband and somebody's daughter.
McGuinty also said he has no intention of revisiting the idea of photo radar.