Update: Barbarians...

An update to the "Brown Bess" saga in Hamilton. The Hamilton Police apparently were able to contact the former owner of the firearm and ask him what he preferred to have done with it. The owner decided the musket should go to the Battlefield House museum in Stoney Creek, a major skirmish site during the War of 1812.

So one gun got saved, but what of the many other historic and valuable firearms in the pile? Or, is it as Leendertse says, history is meaningless, if "one life is saved". I guess WWI & II didn't happen. Neither did the Holocaust. Its people that pull triggers on one another, build gas ovens, and bomb fellows and cities. Since flippant dismissal of the real causes of violence toward one another is the current political buzz in Ontario, maybe the advocates of gun control here can try to bend their heads around this idea. Maybe the odd loss of a warped life or two, can "save lives", so why not "criminal control"?

Its never been about the things...