Liberals pit us against each other

Dear Editor:

I couldn’t help but respond to local Liberal apologist, Jon Peter Christoff’s letter in the May 12 Daily Courier.

First, Christoff states: “Nobody will be out of pocket; the government is buying banned rifles from both indigenous and non-indigenous hunters. Wrong! The Canadian taxpayer will be buying banned rifles from legal gun owners at a major cost at a time when governments are spending billions due to COVID-19. Just remember the costly disaster of the Liberal gun registry which achieved nothing.

Second, Christoff states: “Nobody needs a semi-automatic rifle that can fire 30 high-velocity rounds to hunt deer.” Right, but wrong! Nobody has a legally purchased and owned semi-automatic rifle with more than a fiveshot capacity. That law has been in place forever, and the only way to have that capacity is to illegally purchase smuggled weapons from the U.S., which this ban does not address.

Christoff’s letter shows the essence of what is wrong with the Liberal ban. Rather than a meaningful and thought-out response to a terrible tragedy, the Liberals created a knee-jerk wedge issue to appease their base and once again demonize legal gun owners.

Liberal and other left-wing governments have increasingly tried to use wedge politics to pit primarily urban voters against rural residents while they pander for power at the cost of dividing our nation. Sadly, this is getting reflective of the train wreck down south and forcing a majority of middle of the road Canadians to choose sides.

Andrew Richards, Summerland