Ace_O_Spades

I'm happy to see the NDP pick up over 10 seats, they will actually factor into this minority gov't now, which is good.

This government won't be able to do much, I hope... It's their social policy on crime that worries me... They favour a US model... which means harsher crackdowns on assinine laws (fuck) longer sentences for assinine crimes (fuck!) and more prisons to house them all (FUCK!)

I could go into why these things are actually bad... but the conservatives (big AND little C) will just jump on me and claim all the statistics I provide are liberal hogwash...

and we danced and cheered and gave away our freedoms with a smile.

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Feh.

Bossnass

The potential social policy on woman's/gay rights is what scares me. Nonetheless, I voted conservative.

Please provide your arguments; a harsher model combined with addressing root cause problems seems to me to be a sound plan. Which laws are asinine? A new thread may be required. I ask not for a hot headed debate, but because
I don't understand your position.

Much as you probably don't understand why I think that the firearms registry and the potential handgun ban is asine and dangerous for law abiding citizens. I honestly believe that a handgun ban combined with lax laws/enforcment will mean a rise in violent crime.

Further, I am interested in what statistics you can provide. I won't pre-emptively claim them to be liberal hogwash. That said, anything from an obviously biased source would be obviously questionable. I wouldn't accept any animal rights stats from a PETA site, nor would I accept any firearms stats from an NRA site.