Your love life or your guns!

A few months ago I purchased a new shot gun. A rather plain 20 gauge pump. Now I haven't purchased a new weapon in years and years and I was astonished at the paperwork, including finger prints, address, etc.

For a shotgun??

But that is nothing when compared to Canada because when the registration must be renewed, we find that they want to know about your love life.

Before renewing his gun permit in 2007, the authorities decided to inquire into Lemieux's bedroom history. Did he divorce anyone in the last two years? Did he break up with a girlfriend? If yes, use a separate sheet to explain.

Pardon me? Explain?

Well, it was nothing personal . Apparently, Canada's government feels it ought to know the romantic status of all firearm owners.

The Government of Canada has modified the old Mae West line: If you want a pistol in your pocket, you'd better be pleased to see her. Like any self-respecting citizen (if you'll forgive the expression), M Lemieux told the government to take a hike, and for good measure explained his reasons to the Prime Minister:

Link to Mark Steyn

Now before you think that the person involved was some sort of nut, be advised:

Pierre Lemieux is an economist whose most recent book, Comprendre l'economie, just won the prestigious Prix Turgot in Paris. When it comes to guns, he's a hobbyist, not a lobbyist, but in his spare time he has been trying to make the authorities comprehend something about the relationship between public safety and his love life. Not because he thinks there's a nexus, but because the government does.


Before renewing his gun permit in 2007, the authorities decided to inquire into Lemieux's bedroom history. Did he divorce anyone in the last two years? Did he break up with a girlfriend? If yes, use a separate sheet to explain.

Pardon me? Explain?

Well, it was nothing personal . Apparently, Canada's government feels it ought to know the romantic status of all firearm owners. Hmm. Didn't someone say the state had no business in the nation's bedrooms? Who would say something so fuddy-duddy? Oh, the same fellow who actually said fuddy-duddy: Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Well, that was before the Flood.

Link to George Jonas.

Watching Canada and Europe for trends coming our way is a hobby of mine. And the more Obamafied we become the closer I watch.

Why? For the same reason I watch the poison ivy patch in the neighbors untended fence row that adjoins me. If you don't nip the damn stuff as soon as it comes across it will spread.

(The above expanded from my post in The Tennessean.)