I feel safer already knowing that only the thugs will have hand guns in a Liberal future.

Prime Minister Paul Martin is getting ready to get tough on crime and is expected to announce a ban on hand gun ownership in Canada. Obviously, Martin is a student of history and has taken this lesson to heart:

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty." --Adolf Hitler (H.R. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s Table Talks 1941-1944)

Though I cannot help but wish that our current Prime Minister had studied more Thomas Jefferson and chose him for inspiration instead:

"No man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." --Thomas Jefferson.