FOCUS ON ILLEGAL GUNS, NOT MARIJUANA

Editor the News:

Last week's tragedy of four murdered RCMP officers in the backyard of
Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan has re-ignited the issue of grow-ops,
with the majority of the criticism focused on light sentencing by the courts.

This focus is misdirected

We should be looking at the failed gun control registry.

A grow-op did not lead to this tragedy - ineffective gun control is at the
crux of the problem.

Last week it was drugs, next month it could be a car theft ring and
following that, who knows?

Let's deal with the real problem - a lack of effective control by this
government over illegal firearms. Until we learn how to keep these illegal
firearms out of the hands of criminals, we risk a repeat of last week's
terrible incident.

Alan Kidd, Abbotsford