Americans love their Constitution and beloved Bill of Rights. However it has one fatal weakness in that it’s provisions are unrestricted without the requirement that such rights as freedom of assembly and speech and the right to bear arms be exercised …
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THE FIFTH COLUMN: The Fatal Weakness of the United States Constitution Bill of Rights
Americans love their Constitution and beloved Bill of Rights. However it has one fatal weakness in that it’s provisions are unrestricted without the requirement that such rights as freedom of assembly and speech and the right to bear arms be exercised responsibly. This leads to the inability to restrict hate
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: The Fatal Weakness of the United States Constitution Bill of Rights
Americans love their Constitution and beloved Bill of Rights. However it has one fatal weakness in that it’s provisions are unrestricted without the requirement that such rights as freedom of assembly and speech and the right to bear arms be exercised responsibly. This leads to the inability to restrict hate
Continue readingTrashy's World: NOW watch the gun-lobby…
…propaganda machine shift into high gear! President Obama’s speech at the Newtown vigil was very, very good. One might even declare it to be great. But what will come of it? Will there be action on gun control in the States? Real action? Like banning assault weapons so they do not fall into the
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: A comparison of car regulations vs gun regulations
I saw this on Facebook from a friend: It was made by the “Occupy” movement in the US, and obviously is most relevant to them, but with what has been going on up here in Canada of late with a pro-gun /anti-gun regulation Conservative government, and their actions/attempts/considerations at weakening
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Mass Shootings by the Numbers
Over three-quarters of the firearms used to carry out mass shootings in the United States since 1982 were obtained legally. How on Earth can there not be a national discussion on gun control? And to those gun advocates who say that tragedy ought not to be politicized, that we need
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Newtown
There are 300 million guns in the US, by some estimates. As one person said online, if a proliferation of guns means society is safer, as those in the NRA and other pro-gun organizations claim, then the US should be one of the safest places in the world. There are
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: On the Latest School Shooting: Symptoms, Disease, and Gun Control
With every problem, there are symptoms and there is the disease. In the wake of yet another mass shooting in the United States today — this one leaving twenty-seven dead at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school — the disease, clearly, is the culture of violence that pervades the country, and
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Law And Order Government That Loves Guns – Part 2
The post I wrote yesterday elicited a rather spirited and passionate response from one of its readers. Since I promised a reply to Anonymous after reading the links he provided, I thought I would base today’s contribution on his observations. First, one of the points Anon made (I will reproduce
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Quebec court makes Vic Toews very mad.
As you might have read, a Quebec Superior Court ruled that Ottawa must hand over gun registry data pertaining to Quebec over to the province, so it can help start up its own provincial gun registry: In his decision, considered a victory for Quebec, Judge Marc-André Blanchard said the registry
Continue readingIn This Corner: Letter to America: You’re making it too easy.
Dear America: The events in the Aurora movie theatre are heartbreaking and shocking, and our hearts go our to the families of the victims, and the extended family that is the United States. Everyone in Canada is just sick about this. Just like you, we realize that there is little
Continue readingRedBedHead: Is Gun Control Debate Missing The Point?
The brutal and tragic killing of 12 people in a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado has raised the thorny issue of gun control in an election year. Not surprisingly both Obama and Romney, fearful of being targeted the politically powerful National Rifle Association have dodged the issue and stated that
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Click Away From 41,000 Rounds of Assault Rifle Ammo
The Guardian took a stroll down Ammunition Lane, the online world of American ammo sales. If you’re fixing to start a war, all it takes is a credit card and a click of your mouse. Spend just a few minutes browsing the internet and it becomes clear how James Holmes
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: What Vic Toews doesn’t know might hurt you
As the Conservative caucus wanders off tonight to celebrate their modest victory against the continuation of the life saving long gun registry by drinking the blood of gun violence victims with the gun lobby, we would be remiss if we did not point out how little Public Safety Minister Vic
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: 50 calibre rifle found in Mountie shooting suspect’s truck
It’s a shame that the Harper Tories don’t think that rifles like the one described in this story need to be registered: The rifle was hidden inside, police say. It was not loaded, but a police dog team found a loaded .50-calibre magazine a short distance away. That type of
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: As the Harper Tories prepare to deep six the life saving long gun registry
A couple of readings on law abidingness: Police use the long gun registry Police use the long gun registry Gun collectors don’t always use the long gun registry
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Larry Miller Needs to Stop Quoting the NRA and Ezra Levant Just Needs to STOP!
Last week, Conservative MP Larry Miller, compared support for the gun registry to Adolf Hitler and his apparent disarming of Germans. Most people were shocked but they shouldn’t have been. The NRA uses this argument all the time and before they pried the gun from his “cold, dead hands”, Charlton Heston
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: When CPC MPs lie to Parliament
On Tuesday during the debate on the life saving long gun registry, Harper Tory MP Larry Miller compared gun control supporters to Hitler. Shortly after Question Period that day, Miller stood up in the House and apologized for naming the “this evil guy”. Opposition MPs were less than satisfied, but
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: We’re surprised that anybody is surprised by Larry Miller’s comparison of gun control supporters to Hitler
Following gun control issues as we do, we’re not really surprised that Conservative MP Larry Miller chose to compare gun registry supporters to Hitler. After all, Miller is just reflecting a common point view among gun control opponents. And he isn’t even the first person associated with Harper Tories to
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Long gun registry helps police solve $250 000 theft from west coast business
Victoria Times Colonist “Access to the long-gun registry has been critical to advancing the speed of this investigation,” Jantzen said, who added it all went down in a matter of 24 hours.Saanich News “Long-gun registry checks were at the forefront of this investigation,” he said. “We support these accessible databases
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