Angry in the Great White North

Here is an excerpt from an April 1993 article in the Edmonton Journal:

Two men turned themselves over to police Thursday and were charged with firing a shotgun into the door of a South Side nightclub last weekend.

A 23-year-old employee of Barry T's, 6111 104th St., was stabbed in the thigh during a fight between several men about 3:15 a.m. Saturday.

As bouncers tried to remove the men, a shotgun was fired over their heads into a doorway.

Farhan Mujahid Chak, 19, has been charged with aggravated assault by endangering lives, use of a firearm during the commission of an offence, pointing a firearm and possession of a prohibited weapon.

Ferhan Saleem Qureshy, 20, has been charged with assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon dangerous to the public peace.

Is this the same Farhan Chak? The age is right. The city is right. The full name is right. But when Kevin Libin tried to get in touch with Farhan Chak to sort out the details, suddenly Farhan Chak was "out of town". No one at his new campaign office knows when he would be back.

Stephane Dion's campaign manager in Edmonton might also be the man who took an illegal shotgun, a weapon designed to hurt people indiscriminately, and fired it blindly into a doorway of a crowded club.

Does that make Farhan Chak a poster boy for the Liberal Party gun control platform?

Elect us, and we'll make sure we don't let us get our hands on guns!

Kudos to Kevin Libin and the National Post.

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