During his most recent infrequent visit to Calgary, Stephen Harper told Conservative supporters that his government would finally get around to repealing the life saving long gun registry.Three questionsNow that the NDP is the Official Opposition, will…
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Cowboys for Social Responsibility: Dear Canadian gun owner
Please do not write your newly elected Member of Parliament.
You’re just not smart enough to know what you actually want. You may not even realize the depth of your ignorance.
With all due respect,
Canada’s gun lobby
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Which NDP long gun registry policy do you prefer?
Over the course of this campaign, New Democrats have taken a number different and sometimes incompatible positions on the life saving long gun registry. Which do you prefer?
1) Municipal option
2) Support the gun registry
3) Take no stand but promi…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: If Jack Layton won’t put vulnerable Canadians ahead of politics as usual, he won’t get my vote (and he doesn’t deserve your’s)
There’s nothing to suggest that November 25, 2010 – the International Day to End Violence against Women – was an unusual day in Alberta.
On that day, 816 women and 771 children sought assistance from Alberta’s 42 family violence shelters.
Of those …
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Once upon a time, the NDP cared about fighting gun violence
Until this election, every Jack Layton-led NDP campaign platform has included proposals to deal with illegal guns and gun violence.
These include:
2008: Halt the illegal importation of handguns from the United States and target the sale of illegal wea…
Cowboys for Social Responsibility: On responses to gun lobby holocaust analogies
In the United States, when radical gun owner groups compare themselves to the victims of Nazi Holocaust, politicians speak out.
In Canada, when a handpicked advisor to the Harper Tory government compares hard working Canadian cops to Hitler’s SS in th…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Who’d’ve thunk it?
74% of Canadians support Canada’s integrated gun gun control program.
So why is Jack Layton still pandering to the 22% who oppose Canada’s life saving long gun registry?
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Stephen Harper is no George Bush
Extremism in the pursuit of a goal is still extremism
A couple of days ago, we wrote about a hand picked Harper gun policy advisor who compared Canadian police officers to Hitler’s genocidal SS.
It reminded us of George H.W. Bush’s resignation fro…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Because talking to vulnerable people is icky
Kootenay-Columbia NDP candidate Mark Shmigelsky has a gun registry plan. It’s not a very good plan but it is his plan:If the gun registry issues comes again I will sit down with Rod & Gun clubs to find how we all feel, whether we are for it or again…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Another simple question about the long gun registry
If an experienced NDP candidate in rural Central Alberta can stand up for the long gun registry, why won’t Jack Layton?
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