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   From: gershwin@shawpiano.ca   
      
   They support guns.  They live with guns.  They think shootings.  They shoot   
   off their mouths   
   because of it.  Here's another rightwing type doing it from the BC 'Liberals':   
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    Vancouver Sun  - January 14, 2011   
      
   Kevin Krueger in hot water over attack on opponent   
      
   VICTORIA — A B.C. Liberal cabinet minister is being assailed for comments he   
   made on a   
   Kamloops radio station, where he eluded to a political opponent being shot in   
   the head.   
      
      
   "If there ever was a guy that shouldn't put his head up to get it shot off, as   
   the soldiers   
   refer to it, it's Adrian Dix," Minister of Social Development Kevin Krueger   
   said in an   
   interview with CIFM and B100 in Kamloops.   
      
      
   On Friday, Dix called Krueger's remarks "completely inappropriate", especially   
   given last   
   weekend's shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona.   
      
      
   "I think they are just totally inappropriate. I think we feel it more strongly   
   this week,   
   because of all that's happened, but any week they would be completely   
   inappropriate and   
   wrong," said Dix.   
      
      
   "There is a place for strong disagreement in our public life and I think   
   that's a good thing.   
   We need to have a debate about issues and there are different views but   
   there's no place for   
   this kind of thing," he added.   
      
      
   "I don't have any understanding of why Premier Campbell would allow this to go   
   on."   
      
      
   Dix, the New Democratic Party's health critic who is soon expected to launch a   
   leadership   
   bid, had been calling on the government for three years to upgrade the   
   sterilization unit at   
   the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, especially since the poor state of the   
   old unit has   
   contributed to cancelled surgeries.   
      
      
   On Thursday, the BC government announced $10.7 million for a new sterilization   
   unit at the   
   hospital.   
      
      
   Krueger could not be reached for comment on Friday.   
      
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