Going Off Half-Cocked
In the best of circumstances, measured, critical thinking is hard work. And as the antics of the gun lobby group the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights amply demonstrate, thinking while…
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Save the USA Mock the NRA
It's now been more than a week since the massacre in Las Vegas, and as you can imagine the NRA and their friends in Congress are feeling slightly beleaguered. And…
Appalling gun lobby press release begs Canadians not to blame the gun used in massacre
PHOTOS: Retired Quebec Liberal Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette (Alchetron.com), whose Senate bill would make a sensible model for government gun-control legislation. Below: Conservative British Columbia MP Bob Zimmer, an advocate of…
Depraved Indifference – UPDATED
The term ‘cultural divide’ does not begin to explain this. Depraved indifference, on the part of both the company and the parents, perhaps does. UPDATE: This piece on Slate, which…
And Now, A Word From America’s Most Powerful Lobby
Such unctuous and pious hypocrisy I have rarely seen or heard: BTW, what law were the protesters breaking that got them ejected? Recommend this Post
A Law and Order Government That Loves Guns
Anyone still harbouring doubts about whose interests the Harper regime is governing on behalf of would be well-advised to read this story in today’s Star. Entitled RCMP concerned as Conservatives…
Another Thing Americans Have To Worry About
Think how much worse things could be if guns killed people. But as we all know, thanks to the reassurance offered by the NRA, guns don’t kill people; people kill…
What Vic Toews doesn’t know might hurt you
As the Conservative caucus wanders off tonight to celebrate their modest victory against the continuation of the life saving long gun registry by drinking the blood of gun violence victims…
We’re surprised that anybody is surprised by Larry Miller’s comparison of gun control supporters to Hitler
Following gun control issues as we do, we’re not really surprised that Conservative MP Larry Miller chose to compare gun registry supporters to Hitler. After all, Miller is just reflecting…
Giving credit where credit is due
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
When unicorns are as real as Tory spin lines
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…