Cowboys 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. 

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Cowboys 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

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Cowboys 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

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