On September 24, 2020, Salim Slammy, a 27-year-old Toronto man, was arrested after a search of his home uncovered illegal drugs, large amounts of cash, two handguns and an automatic machine pistol.
Police found:
- $40,000 in cash
- an unspecified amount of crystal methamphetamine
- an unspecified amount of MDMA
- an unspecified amount of cocaine
- two semi-automatic handguns
- one automatic machine pistol
Police estimated the seized drugs are worth roughly $130,000.
Salim Slammy now faces 15 criminal charges, including:
- possession of a prohibited firearm
- possession for the purpose of trafficking
- possession of the proceeds of crime
While the police news release did not specify whether or not Salim Slammy was previously prohibited from firearms, we can safely assume none of the firearms in his possession were legally acquired.
Drug dealers typically can’t pass the background check required to be granted a Possession and Acquisition License to legally own guns.
Mere citizens hope that taking automatic firearms from the hands of drug dealers like Salim Slammy is at the top of Public Safety Minister Bill Blair’s agenda.
They would be wrong.
Oh, so very wrong.
Unless firearms are legal and found in the possession of a federally-licensed gun owners, Minister Blair is thoroughly uninterested in confiscating them.
That’s probably why there was no corresponding press release from Public Safety Minister Bill Blair congratulating police on “taking guns off the street” – the case didn’t involve a legal gun owner.
The good Minister’s focus is not on disarming drug dealers, gang members and other violent criminals.
Aside from endlessly repeating his 2-year-old promise to “invest $327.6 million over five years” to combat gang violence and smuggled guns, Minister Blair is totally missing in action.
Also noticeably absent are press releases from the myriad organizations who claim to be against violence committed by these drug dealers and other violent criminals.
Like our feckless Minister of Public Safety, unless a policy announcement is aimed directly at law-abiding gun owners and the guns they own legally, these groups aren’t interested.
Minister Blair is far more interested in destroying the legal market for firearms with his “evergreen” banned guns list.
Minister Bill Blair, while speaking in front of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (SECU), alluded to the fact destroying the Canadian firearms industry is his goal – not disarming violent criminals or drug dealers like Salim Slammy.
This should distress every Canadian – whether you own firearms or not – because when governments choose to ignore violent criminals in favour of “cracking down” on the people who are NOT shooting up downtown Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver they put all our lives at risk.
It doesn’t have to make sense – it’s government policy.
The Conservative Justice critic should be all over this and then maybe the media would at least give the story small notice. That is the only way the general public will ever hear about how badly Blair is misleading them into believing the Liberals care about public safety when in fact they are following a UN mandated course to complete Canadian civilian disarmament. Ops, that should read lawful civilian disarmament.
Hi Christopher, You are correct. We must realize that the thugs on the streets are not a threat to the government.
In reality, they are the government’s shock troops. They create fear and worry in the citizenry, thus have the citizenry continually pushing for more legislation to protect them from such thugs. Kind of a make work program for politicians.
From the Liberal perspective, we, the lawful licensed gun owners are more of a threat to the government. If they ever push the public too far, and lets face it, Trudeau seems to be valiantly trying to do so a lot of the time, If things devolved into civil unrest or worse, a civil war, we would be fighting them, and giving our spare firearms to our neighbors.
From that Liberal perspective, WE ARE THE THREAT! That is why they are focused on removing our ability to defend hearth, home, and family, Because you cannot control a population that owns firearms.
Good, Gerry. Glad to hear that I’m not the only one who has observed that any government depends on having a substantial criminal element in society.
Criminals are being used as the instigators for the agents of change. Without terrorists, arsonists, looters, rapists, murderers, pedophiles, human traffickers, drug dealers or gangbangers being media-glorified as public safety threats, government and media would have no frightening narrative material for spinning the lies that result in the peasants eagerly giving up their freedoms, liberties and rights.
The War on Terror, the War on Drugs, the War on Islamophobia, Gun Control, the War on Carbon, the War on Racism, COVID-19 …. observe all of the rights and freedoms that have been stripped from people since the 9/11 attack. And all along, people surrendered those rights and freedoms with little more than a whimper. Taken all together, this is a relentless global assault on humanity. And as a result, people now not only fear criminals, they also live in fear of their government as well as each other.
There is no way to vote our way back to a civil, just, free society. Dominion Voting Systems took care of that.
Gun control has NEVER been about public safety. Ever since the Chinese invented gunpowder, gun control has ALWAYS been about ensuring the safety of the government and its agenda whilst simultaneously oppressing the peasants. Gun control is a “two-fer”.
Bill Blair wants to disarm highly-vetted Canadians. And he’s using the actions of criminals, wrapped in a metric tonne of lies, as the excuse. Armed, highly-vetted Canadians want a Public Safety Minister who isn’t a lying, spiteful, greasy, malevolent, soulless, shyte facsimile of a human being. I’ll wager that neither will get what they want.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H. L. Mencken
And none more obvious than the Trudeau liberal attacks and demonization of law abiding firearms owners who have never been a problem, and their totally oblivious stance on the real danger of armed criminals.
Thanks for this Chris..
quote…” the longing for safety is itself just another kind of violence…a violence of cowardice, silence, submission”…
Omar El Akkad, American Civil War 2017
Oh, that’s a good one, Peter. Thank you!
Why the current Liberal government believes it can reduce criminal behaviour by prosecuting the innocent beggars the imagination. Why they continue to stubbornly pursue the concept in the face of Canadian statistical evidence to the contrary, mounting court challenges to the ill-thought-out OIC gun ban, and increasing calls even by the left to solve the right problem instead of the wrong one would seem to indicate that the current Liberal government has larger motivations in mind other than the safety of Canadians and the development of effective policy. It is fast becoming a Chavezian farce, where leadership doggedly pursues an ideological agenda while the nation starves.