Titled:    Anti-gun advocate's son facing weapons charges

As is becoming all too frequent, the anti-gun activists are demonstrating an "OK for me, but not for you" attitude and failing to deal with reality even in their own homes.

In the latest case, Julia Farquharson, founder of United Mothers Against Violence Everywhere, found herself facing reality head on:

"I have nothing to hide," Farquharson said to police. However, she was not the focus of the investigation.

Police were there because of her son Kadafi Farquharson, 23. He was arrested on weapons charges.

The mother and anti-gun violence advocate said someone else must have put the weapons in her house.

She berated officers as they left her home.

Police officers offered to show Farquharson the results of their search. Items allegedly found by investigators included a rifle magazine, a disassembled handgun and a quantity of ammunition.

After seeing what police had allegedly collected, Farquharson said she does not believe it. "No, my son wouldn't carry a gun, no," Farquharson said.

Another article, in the Toronto Sun, explained a little more:

The son of a Toronto anti-gun violence activist faces multiple gun-related charges after he was arrested with two sawed-off rifles hidden down his pants.

Police from the Emergency Task Force surrounded the house of Kadfi Farquharson, 23, on Duncanwoods Rd. in the Finch and Islington area just before 4 p.m. yesterday after being called to the area by a man who said someone had tried to shoot him.

One would think that having sawed-off rifles unknowingly planted in your pants would raise your suspicions.

It is incredible to think that Ms. Farquharson believes she has the right to dictate what other people can and can't do when she can't even discern the character of her son who lives in the same house.

I wonder if this is the same Kadafi Farquharson quoted recently praising an anti-violence course he had just completed:

"I just want to hope that in the future there are a lot more programs like this," graduate Kadafi Farquharson told reporters. "Because we need a lot, lot, lot more programs like this to get more kids off the street."

Farquharson and the other graduates accepted their diplomas from Mayor David Miller himself. The program was part of Miller's Community Safety Plan and cost the city $27,000.

"We have to make sure our young people grow up safely, and we have to make sure they have a chance," Miller told CTV News. "If they don't have a chance, they get sucked into the gun and gang culture. Programs like the one we're at today give young people a real chance."

It certainly didn't seem to work for young Kadafi.