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You'd never know it from reading my stuff, but I was once a member of the University of Alberta's writing skills committee.

Among our tasks was reviewing freshman essays.  One I'll never forget advocated strict gun control, and contained the memorable non sequitur "Gun control is needed more in the 20th Century than in previous centuries, because being killed with a bullet is more fatal than being killed by a sword."

—Lorne Gunter, speculating that the student who wrote that probably went on to design Canada's ludicrous gun-control laws that cost us $12 million or more a month to implement but won't make us one Iota safer.

What could be funnier than the truth?  To enjoy the full impact of the insanity of the Liberal's gun-control folly read the article, Edmonton Journal, Feb. 10, 2002

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