Yesterday, the Harper Tory government was finally forced to announce the membership of its radical anti-gun control committee (Question 364). It’s only five or six years after the committee was established that a written Parliamentary question shone some light on the rocks under which the committee lives. Review of the
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Cowboys for Social Responsibility: Establishing motive
Why are the Harper Tories hell bent on destroying data from the life saving long gun registry? A high profile Toronto lawyer thinks he knows why: It’s like throwing a bomb into a crime lab because they didn’t want any evidence left there.We couldn’t have said it any better.
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Gun lobby vs. shooting victims
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: The sum of some
Earlier today, federal, provincial and territorial justice and public safety ministers finished their annual meeting in Charlottetown. Among the items under discussion, was Quebec’s request that the Harper Tory government transfer data from the life saving long gun registry to provinces wishing to establish their own. According to the agreed
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Making it up as they go
In 2009, the Harper Tories had a clear plan to replace the long gun registry with something that could work: We want to return to the better system of having retailers record their sales of non-restricted weapons instead of having to register them with the long-gun registry. – Guy Lauzon,
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Harper Tories release suppressed gun control report: Report leaves more questions than answers
Five days after the Minister of Public Safety tabled the overdue 2010 report of the Commissioner of Firearms, the government finally got around to providing it to the rest of the country. Sensible Canadians should be concerned that the report took so long to be made available. Judging from it’s
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Harper Tories still suppressing critical firearms reports
Two months ago, we wrote about the Harper Tory government’s penchant for suppressing RCMP reports on the life saving long gun registry. At the time, the House of Commons Public Safety committee was studying the most recent long gun registry repeal bill and another favourable report would have again undermined
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Alberta supports Quebec long gun registry
Last week while we were busy doing other things, Alberta Premier Alison Redford visited Quebec. Over the course of the visit, the Premier was asked about her views on the life saving long gun registry. Redford told reporters that she respects Quebec’s decision to establish its own long gun registry
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Tories lying about gun registry bill
According to Western Canada’s gun lobby. Maybe that’s why the NFA didn’t get invited to the House of Commons Committee review of the radical bill to repeal the life saving long gun registry. Let’s hope the Tory majority lets the NFA appear when the Senate considers the Bill.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Three posts on guns worth reading
Every now and then, we see things which will likely interest our regular readers and, as a bonus, engage and/or enrage our trolls. Here are three that speak of the community to which the Harper government is pandering in its incremental war on Canada’s gun laws. Reflecting on the Right-Wing
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Dear fellow Reformers
OTTAWA January 6, 2011 Dear fellow Reformers, It’s been a long slog but we’ve arrived. The opposition is crippled and the media is cowed. Heck, we’ve turned the appointment of the second place candidate in an election that took place more than six years ago into a victory for “democracy”.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Ringing in the new year with a bang
A couple of days before the new year a letter appeared in the Calgary Herald outlining the writer’s concern about the deaths caused by another formerly law abiding gun owner. The writer likely wondered how a young man who treated his guns like “babies”could legally acquire and keep the weapon
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Next stop, tiger blood
Today we learned that the stable Harper majority government has launched yet another round of ads trumpeting the Conservative Party’s unfulfilled commitment to repeal the life saving long gun registry. But why now, right before Christmas? They have a majority in the House of Commons. They could have passed their
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: When is OK to compare Canadian police to the SS?
In April 2011, a handpicked member of the Harper government’s radical anti-gun control advisory committee, compared Canadian cops to Hitler’s notorious SS. In the midst of an election campaign, such comments had the potential to be explosive and Public Safety Minister Vic Toews former Director of Parliamentary Affairs lept bravely
Continue readingDecember 6, 22nd Anniversary of the Polytechnique Massacre–With Every Passing Year, We Seem To Keep Going Backward
Here we are again, boys ‘n’ girls, another somber December 6; another year has come and gone and it is time again to commemorate the Polytechnique Massacre when fourteen young women’s lives were lost at the hands of a deranged misogynist. For the two plus years since I’ve started Sister
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Also worth reading
Long time crime victims’ advocate Steve Sullivan writes about the long gun registry. I believe the DNA Databank has saved lives and prevented abuses. I believe the long gun registry has done the same. If I am wrong about the later, duck hunters and farmer will have to fill out
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: More worthwhile #gunregistry reading
The “just another duck gun” myth is exploded.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: So what exactly is a sniper rifle?
When bloggers write about the wrong headed Harper Tory plan to repeal the life saving long gun, self annointed gun language cops leap on any perceived diversion from their world view. For whatever reason, they seem especially put out by the use of the term sniper rifle. There must be
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: The Mulroneyesque Thomas Mulcair
There are many things that we could say about Brian Mulroney. Many of them are bad. But he did have the gift of blarney. At his best, Mulroney could charm a snake charmer out of his cobras and then go on to convince his opponents that cobras were a thoughtful
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Another good #gunregistry read
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