In June 2006, Stockwell Day tabled the Harper government’s first bill to repeal the long gun registry. As this blog pointed out a couple of days ago, Day’s bill required gun sellers to actually check whether the buyer was licensed before selling a long gun. At the time, the Canadian
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Cowboys for Social Responsibility: Thomas Mulcair, wanker
Regular readers of this blog will know that NDP MP and leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair is the Member of Parliament for the riding that includes École polytechnique. Mulcair, through his silence, has already demonstrated that he’s an able practitioner of the game of playing both sides of an issue but
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: That was then. This is now. We liked then better.
In June 2006, Stockwell Day introduced the Harper Tory government’s first bill to repeal the long gun registry. At the time, the government emphasized how the bill would help keep guns out of the hands of “individuals who should not have them, such as convicted criminals,” and how making businesses keep
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: A gun registry case for mandatory minimum penalties
The Toronto Star is reporting that the Harper government has reinforced its efforts to strip Canada’s national police service of its independence. Removing the RCMP’s communications independence is the just another indication yet that Conservatives want a police force that serves the party and not the people. We were immediately
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Let Quebec Pay
The federal government is not only going to destroy the long gun registry, but is going to destroy all the data too. However, Quebec wants to keep the registry and maintain it on its own. They are willing to foot the bill as long as it gets the data. Why
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: When you don’t know what your talking about, you should just stop talking
On Thursday, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security heard from Canadian Shooting Sports Association spokesman Tony Bernardo. Just before 36 minutes into the committee meeting, Bernardo starts to list all of the things he believes governs the import of firearms by licensed Canadian firearms
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: It is like giving a machine gun to a monkey *
Watching gun registry opponents on twitter over the past few days has been nothing short of amusing. One guy thinks we work for George Soros. Another posted a photo of his small daughter hugging a sniper rifle. And another decided that homophobia would strengthen his argument. * We can’t take
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: One of these things is much like another. And that might be inconvenient.
Big news from south of the border. Alleged White House shooter Oscar Ortega Hernandez was arrested today in Pennsylvania. DC media reports that Ortega Hernandez used a cheap but powerful Chinese-made assault rifle in the shooting. What makes this shooting interesting, other than the fact that it hit a White
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: The factualy flawed and incorrect Vic Toews
If I was the Minister of Public Safety, I would want to make sure that my answers to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security were well rooted in fact. Others, it seems may not share that passion. Responding to a question from Liberal MP
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: How can you tell when Vic Toews is making shit up?
This morning, Canadian Press reported that repeal of the gun registry would increase the risk of illegal gun smuggling and trafficking. At the Parliamentary Committee this morning, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews downplayed the risk. He maintained the bill will not result in any changes to the way border officials
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Toews Definition Of Effective Gun Control
Use both hands.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Toews Definition Of Effective Gun Control
Use both hands.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Toews Definition Of Effective Gun Control
Use both hands.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: More gun registry news
On November 2, the UK House of Commons European Security Committee considered EU Regulations that would implement the United Nations Firearms Protocol, a treaty designed to fight illicit firearms trafficking. Following its review of additional information provided by Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron’s government, the Committee cleared the document. That
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Someone should ask a Minister
Canadian Press reports today that the government knows that repeal of the long gun registry means that "Canada would no longer meet its international commitments relating to firearms tracing and record keeping."
If only the opposition had an opportunity to ask the Minister of Public Safety why he is undercutting Canada’s international commitments to fight gun trafficking.
Oh right. They do.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Is OFAH lowering its standards to dance with the Tories on the long gun registry?
In 2004, the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters wrote a letter to then Prime Minister Paul Martin on behalf of the National Coalition of Provincial and Territorial Wildlife Federations setting out their views of what a post gun registry world sh…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Gun lobby wrong…again
St. Catharines Standard
November 14, 2011
Letters to the Editor
‘GOPHER GUN’ DESIGNED TO SHOOT PEOPLE
Tony Bernardo of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (who commented in a QMI Agency story in The Standard, Nov. 2) is incorrect in calling the Mini-14 rifle a "gopher gun … designed to shoot varmints on a farm."
The Mini-14 is designed to shoot people, being a version of the M-14, a
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: More facts that gun registry opponents will deny
Once again, their assertions of long gun registry opponents have little connection to actual facts.
79.7% of firearms seized by Canadian law enforcement agencies are non-restricted long guns – the very same rifles and shotguns that will be deregister…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Long gun registry helps fight domestic homicide, police chief says
There’s also many cases Sean, that happen daily and right across this country, where the police will go to an incidence of domestic violence where there is concern that if there are firearms in the house that they might be used to commit violence and e…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: On fact based policy making
The gun lobby will tell you that police don’t use gun registry information to make tactical decisions.
They couldn’t be more wrong.
After discovering their suspect had several guns registered to him, Camrose police decided to call in the RCMP Emergenc…