I can't say it any better than Garry Breitkreuz already did, so here's his editorial... The registry isn't about reducing crime. It's about public control. The media war over the hotly contested long-gun registry is in full swing, and it isn’t pretty. The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) is lobbying hard to keep our tax dollars flowing into the black hole … [Read more...]
RCMP Reports Download Links – Non-Scribd.com
Katey Montague, creator of dozens of pro-gun videos on Youtube, has made the just-released RCMP reports accessible without the need to sign up for another web service. The original link at the CBC, http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/08/rcmps-report-on-the-long-gun-registry-sent-to-mps.html, required anyone wanting the reports to register with Scribd.com. You can … [Read more...]
Canada’s (In)Effective Gun Laws
In yet another stunning example of the ineptness of Canada's Firearms Act comes a news report out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. 20-year-old Jeremy Kyle St. Germain was arrested on August 7th, after managing to get himself shot. Jeremy is a career criminal with a firearms prohibition order in place. Despite his violent criminal past, police do not check up on him, his home is not … [Read more...]
Waving Guns In Public (Fake Ones Too!)
On August 3rd Calgary Police got several calls about a man acting suspiciously in a Safeway parking lot. Police responded. They found and apprehended someone who was seen carrying a firearm outside the grocery store. He was arrested and "charges are pending" after police found a replica handgun on the him. What he was doing there, police a still investigating. Why he … [Read more...]