What an excellent opening statement this piece in the Bahama Journal has:

It is virtually impossible for Bahamians to legally come into possession of a firearm, according to Desmond Bannister, Minister of State For Legal Affairs, who says firearms legislation in this country is among the toughest in the region.

Well then that must be one of the safest places in the UNIVERSE according to the Brady Bunch and their ilk, right?

He said the problem with The Bahamas is that its archipelagic nature, which law enforcement officials acknowledge makes it is easy for persons visiting to bring in firearms.

Hmmm … no mention of crime, yet we have an excuse. Nice technique.

What is violent crime like in the Bahamas, anyway?

Between 1991 and 2003, the murder rate in The Bahamas was higher than the United States and about three times as much as Canada’s on a per capita basis.

Crap.

“We do not have a difficulty with the legal regime. We have a difficulty with the nature of our country. If someone in possession of a firearm brings in a yacht into one of the Out Islands, that illegal firearm might get into the wrong hands and it is virtually impossible for the police to police that kind of thing,” said Mr. Bannister.

“That illegal firearm might get into the wrong hands?” Is it just me, or is this guy tying himself up in illogical argument knots?

We can not allow people in our homes to have illegal firearms and not report it to the authorities,” said Mr. Bannister.

Okay, so it’s not me.

Mr. Bannister said there have been reports of persons in many communities firing off bullets into the air and when the police arrived to question people they were met by a wall of silence.

He said a wall of silence should not be tolerated in the Bahamas. He said there must be obedience and respect for the law.

And that’s it right there, isn’t it? You must be disarmed. You must turn in anyone who is armed. You must obey. Beginning to sound like Philadelphia. I wonder if they can stop-and-frisk? Or maybe like Boston where you can “allow” the police to ransack your kids room looking for a weapon regardless of whether or not they have a warrant. I have a great respect for most police officers because most police officers aren’t insufferable jackass elitists. That being said, disarming the public and demanding they “obey” gives far too much power to your average every-day cop.

“When we decide to not tolerate illegal activities we will see the work the police, the courts and judges are doing. We as a people can work together to ensure the kind of society we want,” said Mr. Bannister.

Work together, greater good, blah blah blah. This is beginning to sound like a Democratic debate.

Chief Superintendent Raymond Gibson, Officer in Charge of Crime, said most of the illegal weapons entering the country are coming from the US.

Prove it you lousy sack of fecal expulsions.

Superintendent Gibson said the methods being used to import these illegal firearms are commercial airline flights, shipping vessels, cruises and pleasure vessels.

Commercial airline flights? Again, prove it you lying weasel. “Illegal” guns coming to the Bahamas on commercial airline flights, that’s your excuse? “Kucinich is bringing them over in his flying saucer,” would’ve been only marginally less reasonable an explanation.

This is what happens to America, unfortunately. It’s all our fault. No matter what it is - your people killing each other on your little hole of an island in the middle of your “archipelagic” cesspit of poverty and crime and it’s our fault.

Go fark yourself sideways with a push-broom.

“We want to make an appeal to the public, to continue providing police with information without delay so that most criminal activities can cease.”

So even though it’s “virtually impossible for Bahamians to legally come into possession of a firearm” (his words, not mine), you have a massive gang and drug related problem causing all sorts of murders with illegal guns.

And it’s the fault of the U.S.

Right.