89% of domestic shooting homicide victims are female.
The bill before Parliament will make it easier for domestic abusers to arm up.
John Rafferty and Bruce Hyer are upset that they were disciplined for supporting that bill.
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Cowboys for Social Responsibility: Hearing voices
The gun lobby will tell you their fight against the gun registry is about heritage.
They’ll tell you about the first time they went hunting.
They’ll tell you about their first duck/deer/moose.
They’ll tell you about their coming of age moment, thei…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: The Seinfeldian candidate
It’s becoming harder to consider NDP leadership candidate Nathan Cullen as a serious contender.
Cullen’s failure to take a stand on the Tory bill to repeal the long gun registry is just another demonstration that he either doesn’t understand that New Democrats want "to make sure that Canadians know which way that we vote" or was putting his leadership aspirations ahead of whatever principles he
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Credit where credit is due and darts where they are deserved
It’s nice to see the NDP taking a principled stand on the life saving long gun registry.
Well, most of them anyway.
Who does Nathan Cullen think he’s playing to by slinking away from the vote hoping nobody would notice?
That’s not leadership.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Breaking gun registry news from the pre-internet era
Canada’s unregistered gun lobby says that repealing the long gun registry will “lighten the legislative burden sports shooters and hunters face every day”.They fail to note that the last terrorist murder in Canada was committed with a shotgun.To be fai…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Worth reading. Worth correcting.
This morning, the Toronto Star published an interesting article on the impacts of the Tory war on vulnerable Canadians long gun registry repeal bill.I won’t repeat the core of the story. Suffice to say it is discussed here, here, here, and here.B…
Continue readingI Knew The Scrapping of The Long Gun Registry Was Never About Farmers and Hunters
The above image is a ruger mini-14 semi-automatic. Tell me, boys ‘n’ girls, does that look like something that would be required to shoot ducks and other game? I didn’t think so neither. Well, proud owners of those machines will no longer have to register them under the new Harpercon legislation, . . . → Read More: I Knew The Scrapping of The Long Gun Registry Was Never About Farmers and Hunters
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Shoot ’em if You’re Got Your Ruger Mini-14 Semi-automatic Rifle With You
The Reformers’ scrapping of the gun registry was never about farmers. Never. When Stephen Harper drafted their policy back in the day, it was about creating what they called a “Canadian gun culture”. Tom Flanagan stated that Harper on…
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: It won’t end with killing the gun registry
I won’t bother writing a long obituary on the coming death of the long gun registry; I’ve made all my arguments previously and the issues pro and con have been well-debated. I will say this, though: if you think the anti-gun control lobby is going to d…
Continue readingOpen fire on the long gun registry
While I certainly don’t agree with the decision to abolish the long gun registry, I can say that I understand why the government is doing it: mainly to appease their core voters. What I do not understand in the slightest, … Continue reading…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Tory gun registry bill will help arm criminals
In their celebratory press release, Canada’s premier gun lobby group reveals the fatal flaw in the Harper government’s new gun registry bill.They note that “the bill removes the requirement to call and confirm transfers”. That means that a gun shop do…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Morning WTF
Hands up, if you knew that assault rifles were unrestricted weapons in the country?Snowdy said he has been sleuthing around the RCMP firearms program. He claims the RCMP wants to reclassify a number of military assault rifle style weapons currently cla…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Morning WTF
Hands up, if you knew that assault rifles were unrestricted weapons in the country? Snowdy said he has been sleuthing around the RCMP firearms program. He claims the RCMP wants to reclassify a number of military assault rifle style weapons currently classified as non-restricted, making them either restricted or prohibited.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Morning WTF
Hands up, if you knew that assault rifles were unrestricted weapons in the country? Snowdy said he has been sleuthing around the RCMP firearms program. He claims the RCMP wants to reclassify a number of military assault rifle style weapons currently classified as non-restricted, making them either restricted or prohibited.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Some say
Some say that a shotgun isn’t a threat to public safety.We respectfully disagree.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: More on the Tory internet scam
American photo?NRA values.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Just another internet scam
Canada’s Conservative Party has launched an online petition in support of its long held commitment to repeal the long gun registry.The Conservative Party says that funding is desperately needed to crack down on Internet fraud.House of Commons Standing …
Continue readingJane Taber and Candy Hoeppner Are Now Into Fiction: Part 2–Inconsistencies Between Scrapping C-391 And Tough On Crime Agenda
Part 2 doesn’t really have anything to do with Janie Taber’s little apparent attempt at fiction regarding Candy getcherguns Hoeppner’s little ego trip, but it did raise questions in mind like how does stripping away at gun control square with a tough on crime agenda? How does the meme of not wanting to . . . → Read More: Jane Taber and Candy Hoeppner Are Now Into Fiction: Part 2–Inconsistencies Between Scrapping C-391 And Tough On Crime Agenda
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Canada’s gun lobby’s election failure reveals NDP gun registry fallacy
Reading today’s Postmedia story about labour union spending during the 2011 federal election campaign led this blog to wonder about other third party spending.Reviewing the listing of third parties on the Elections Canada website, two groups familiar t…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: NDP leadership goes straight to flying pig stage
Gun lobby endorsed NDP leadership candidate Nathan Cullen declares “I am a gun-control candidate.”
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