Media Release: Gun Prohibitionists Admit Tough Laws Did Not Affect Murder Ratesby NancyMedia Release: Gun Prohibitionists Admit Tough Laws Did Not Affect Murder Rates Date: Dec 13, 2006 11:00 AM Attachments: ATT1368738.txt -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wishlist] Media Release: Gun Prohibitionists Admit Tough Laws Did Not Affect Murder Rates Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:56:03 +1100 From: wishlist@lists.internode.on.net Reply-To: wishlist@lists.internode.on.net Organization: WiSH To: <Wishlist@lists.internode.on.net> The International Coalition for Women in Shooting and Hunting (WiSH) has issued the following release: *Media Release **December 14 2006*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Gun Prohibitionists Admit Tough Laws Did Not Affect Murder Rates The International Coalition for Women in Shooting and Hunting (WiSH) has welcomed new research showing that Australia's 1996 gun laws did not have an impact on the pre-existing downwards trend in firearm homicides. WiSH Chairwoman Samara McPhedran said "This study adds to the ever-increasing body of evidence that the tough laws, bans, and buybacks did not affect the ongoing decline in rates of murder using a firearm." The results support peer-reviewed research co-authored by Ms McPhedran and published earlier this year by the prestigious British Journal of Criminology. "Like our work, this research shows that the reforms may have affected firearm suicide rates, which account for around 80 per cent of firearm-related deaths. However, suicides using other methods also started to drop in the late 1990's, which means we must be cautious about drawing conclusions. It is highly likely that better funding for suicide prevention contributed to overall declines." "Anti-gun lobbyists have finally acknowledged that the facts demonstrate the laws' lack of effect. This forces us to recall that the half billion dollars spent on bans and buybacks came at the expense of mental healthcare, early intervention strategies, social services, and community policing," said Ms McPhedran. *References:* British Journal of Criminology: http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/azl084v1 AIC: http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi151.html ABC Law Report: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lawreport/stories/2006/1776336.htm A pdf of this release is available from: http://www.ic-wish.org/WiSH%20Gun%20Prohibitionists%20Admit%20Tough%20La ws%20Did%20Not%20Affect%20Murder%20PR%20141206.pdf The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Letter: Canadians being misled about gun ownership, dangersby NancyLetter: Canadians being misled about gun ownership, dangers Date: Dec 13, 2006 1:44 PM PUBLICATION: The Daily Gleaner (Fredericton) DATE: 2006.12.13 PAGE: C7 BYLINE: Letters SECTION: OPINION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Canadians being misled about gun ownership, dangers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- As a professional and a firearms owner in Canada, I take great exception to the methods employed by the Liberal Party of Canada in misleading the Canadian population regarding firearms. When Allan Rock started the process with bill C68 in the late 1990s, he stated that registration of long arms would assist with misuse of firearms in Canada and was not the beginning of a confiscation process. We in the firearms community did not believe him but as legal owners of firearms we complied with the law. The long gun registry has been shown to be a money pit that has done nothing to lower crime in Canada. Restricted firearms have always been registered and as such the long gun registry had no effect on restricted firearms. During the last election Paul Martin stated in Toronto that the Liberal Party would ban guns in Canada. This statement was meant to drive emotions based on the gang-related shooting in Toronto. Banning firearms does nothing to the criminal element. In fact with fewer legal firearms in circulation with law- abiding citizens firearms crime will increase as there is no deterrent in place. This has been shown in England that does not allow personal ownership of firearms and gun crime has increased 30 per cent since firearms were outlawed. Now the Liberal Party at their convention misled the population once again in their structuring of a resolution (42) stating that: WHEREAS automatic and semi-automatic weapons are illegal for hunting purposes and WHEREAS automatic and semi-automatic weapons do not support the hunting culture found in all parts of Canada. A couple of points of clarification: 1. Automatic firearms are not available in Canada 2. Semi-automatic firearms are legal for hunting in Canada (this includes shotguns, centre fire rifles and 22s) Since the Liberals could be in power again soon, perhaps, next year, it is time the legal firearms owners (two million of them) stand up for their rights and do not allow the Liberal Party to confiscate their property. The Canadian Shooting Sports Association located in Ottawa is our voice. Go to their website www:cdnshootingsports.org and support them and yourself. Tim Kairns Fredericton The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Concealed Weapons in the Wildernessby Nancy |
An increase in women hunters was the focus of an ABC World News reportbyABC WORLD NEWS . . . An increase in women hunters was the focus of an ABC World News report last week. ABC reporter Bill Redeker, in response to new statistics http://www.nssf.org/news/PR_idx.cfm?PRloc=common/PR/&PR=101806.cfm reported by NSSF, spotlighted efforts to recruit women and youth hunters and discussed hunting's role in conservation. Watch the report at ABCNews.com. http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/US/story?id=2702436&page=1 The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Too Bad Dad didn't have a self defense weapon to protect himself and his beloved Daughter.by NancyDad, daughter beaten as thief fires bullet into floor, Date: Dec 11, 2006 9:26 AM PUBLICATION: The Province DATE: 2006.12.11 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A9 BYLINE: Ethan Baron SOURCE: The Province ILLUSTRATION: Colour Photo: Wayne Leidenfrost, The Province / This is thehouse on East 52nd Street in Vancouver that experienced a home invasion with shots fired last night. WORD COUNT: 260 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Home-invaders flee with $4,000: Dad, daughter beaten as thief fires bullet into floor, demanding more cash ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- A Vancouver teen feared she'd be killed when a trio of armed home-invaders held a gun to her head and demanded money from her father. The men, all wearing black bandanas over their faces, with black hoodies and black gloves, kicked in the door to her home at East 52nd Avenue near Main Street around 12:15 a.m. yesterday. "I was on our couch in the living room," said the 18-year-old, a Douglas College student on a soccer scholarship. All three men carried handguns, she said. "My dad was sleeping. I was yelling and screaming for him to come out. Then they threw me on the ground." When her father emerged from his bedroom, he too was thrown to the floor. "They demanded we give them money," she said. "They asked, 'Where's the money? Where's the money?'" One man held a pistol to her head and said he'd kill her if her father didn't give them cash. She believed the man would shoot her, she said. Her father was pistol-whipped several times and kicked, and led the assailants to his bedroom, where he gave them about $4,000, money he kept for emergencies, she said. One of the men shot a bullet into the floor and demanded more cash. "We told them we didn't have any more money," she said. "That's when they kicked me in the face because they got angry. They said, 'You're lying! You're lying!'" With no more money forthcoming, the men left, one shooting into the living-room wall on the way out. The men were Asian, about five foot six, and spoke unaccented English, she said. Her father, 49, who operates a salvage business using his pickup truck, needed stitches to close wounds to his scalp. The daughter received contusions to her face. "I feel OK," she said. "I'm happy that I'm alive and my dad's alive." Police believe there "may have been something nefarious" going on in the home that attracted the home-invaders, said Const. Tim Fanning. The daughter said she wasn't aware of any illegal activity in the home she shares with her father. The home-invaders didn't take her laptop or any of the electronic equipment in the house. "I have no clue why they came," she said. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
making criminals out of copsby NancyOfficer must go to court to face gun charges Date: Dec 11, 2006 9:28 AM PUBLICATION: The Hamilton Spectator DATE: 2006.12.11 EDITION: Final SECTION: Local PAGE: A9 SOURCE: The Hamilton Spectator WORD COUNT: 66 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Officer must go to court to face gun charges ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- A Toronto police officer living in Oakville is facing charges related to the unauthorized possession of a firearm. Police said the officer turned himself in after an investigation by police was completed last week. It is alleged he had an unregistered handgun. The 41-year-old officer will appear in court Jan. 9 to answer to the charges. The officer is facing two counts of unauthorized possession of a firearm and one count of unauthorized possession of a prohibited device. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Subject: [wagc-ut] Holly Mullen rails on teachers and gun ownersby WAGCSubject: [wagc-ut] Holly Mullen rails on teachers and gun owners Charles Hardy Public Policy Director GOUtah! 801-523-3817 bagpiper@gawab.com Dear Salt Lake Tribune, I write to protest Holly Mullen's latest article. What appears to be a crass attempt at humor at the expense of those Utah teachers who choose to legally own guns not only falls flat, but is offensive on a number of fronts. I doubt Ms. Mullen would ever write, nor would the SLTribune, print a column that attempted to get laughs by drawing on negative and false stereotypes of sexual, religious, or racial minorities. Certainly in this day and age of political correctness and sensitivity neither Ms. Mullen, nor the SLTribune, would attempt to get laughs by questioning the sexual orientation of female gym teachers. But calling into question the masculinity and mental stability of male home ec teachers is acceptable? I realize that gun owners are among the last group that may be safely ridiculed and slandered in the popular press. But when did teachers get added to the mix? Through her abject failure to be at all funny, Ms. Mullen reminds us that humor must contain some portion of truth. In ten years of having a non-discriminatory permit system to allow all law abiding citizens--without regard to race, religion, sex, income level, sexual preference, political connections, etc--to legally carry a concealed weapon, and with over 80,000 such permits now valid, Ms. Mullen cannot point to a SINGLE incident of ANY teacher misusing a firearm in the manner she suggested in her article. In fact, taking into account yesterday's report on a dozen police officers being decertified by POST, Utahns are MORE likely to be the victim of sexual misconduct by a teacher OR a sworn police officer than to be the victim of a teacher with a concealed weapons permit unlawfully using deadly force. Indeed, as the parent of school-age children whom I entrust to professional educators every school day, I think Ms. Mullen's pathetic attempt at writing is more of an insult to teachers than to gun owners. I am left wondering whether her article is not a subtle attempt to encourage home schooling so as to avoid such dangerous creatures as she thinks inhabit the payroll of Utah's schools. I also point out that neither Ms. Mullen NOR the SLTribune, nor even school districts had ANY concerns about private citizens carrying concealed weapons back when those who could obtain permits was more or less restricted to a few hundred politically well connected and/or high income white businessmen. ONLY, since the discriminatory aspects of the permit process were reformed and permits have been issued based on the content of character, rather than the color of skin, size of bank account, or the names in one's Rolodex have school districts, newspapers, and columnists found reason to be concerned with legally concealed weapons. Frankly, the clear and bigoted implications of that correlation belie attitudes more befitted the hooded segregationists of less enlightened eras than anyone claiming civility in 21st century America at it appears such concerns have far more to do with WHO is carrying guns, than with WHERE those guns are carried. . I request that a retraction and an apology to both teachers AND Utah's law-abiding gun owners be printed and that Ms. Mullen be reprimanded for such hurtful hate speech directed at a couple of Utah's most responsible groups of persons. A refresher course on diversity and sensitivity might also be in order for Ms. Mullen to remind her to respect, rather than mock and ridicule, differing cultures and points of view, including Utah's native conservative, gun loving culture. Sincerely Charles Hardy GOUtah! The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Granny get your gun! 90-year-old bags her buckby NancyGranny get your gun! 90-year-old bags her buck Date: Dec 9, 2006 12:03 PM PUBLICATION: The Edmonton Sun DATE: 2006.12.09 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: 28 ILLUSTRATION: photo by Bev Ware, CP Ruby Bower, 90, shows off the antlers of the buck she shot last month. It was the fifth deer she has bagged in the past 10 years. BYLINE: CP DATELINE: LOWER OHIO, N.S. WORD COUNT: 171 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Granny get your gun! 90-year-old bags her buck ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Ruby Bower stared down the barrel of the rifle in her hand and lined the deer up in the crosshairs of the scope. Then the great-great-grandmother pulled the trigger. The 56-kilogram buck instantly dropped to the ground. The bullet hit him in the neck, slit through his heart and came out the other side. "It wasn't a good shot, but it was fatal and it didn't waste any meat," the 90-year-old said. This was the fifth deer the resident of Lower Ohio has bagged in the past decade. Bower learned to shoot from her father when she was just a little girl. "When I was younger I always hunted rabbits. I'd set a snare then shoot it with my little .22. I was a pretty good crack shot with that," she grins. Later on, she used that skill to feed her family after her husband of 14 years deserted the young mother of four. Sixteen years ago, when Bower was just 74, her son-in-law, Glenwood MacKay, built her a blind on his nearby property and that's where she goes every season. In early November, after seven days of sitting in that blind wrapped in old blankets and seeing nothing at all, her luck changed. Now Bower is going to mount the antlers on a wooden plaque shaped like a shield. It'll hang on the wall with other trophies and right beside the other set of antlers from an eight-point buck she shot eleven years ago. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
JPFO ALERT: New Column in Concealed Carry Magazineby NancyJPFO ALERT: New Column in Concealed Carry Magazine Date: Dec 8, 2006 2:09 PM ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization December 6, 2006 JPFO ALERT: New Column in Concealed Carry Magazine JPFO is proud to announce that we have begun publishing a regular column in Concealed Carry Magazine. The column, entitled "License to Fear," begins running with this month's issue. In our premier column, we discuss the effects of CCW permits and licensing. You can view the article in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format here: www.jpfo.org/ccm200612.pdf . Please take a moment to visit Concealed Carry Magazine at www.concealedcarrymag.com . If you like what you see, you can join up online. And tell 'em JPFO sent you! - The Liberty Crew The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Life for man who killed two in Toronto nightclubby NancyToo bad he's not getting the electric chair  ---------------------------------------- Life for man who killed two in Toronto nightclub Date: Dec 8, 2006 10:27 AM DATE: 2006.12.07 CATEGORY: Quebec-Ontario regional general news PUBLICATION: cpw WORD COUNT: 196 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Man who killed two in hail of bullets in Toronto nightclub gets life sentence ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- TORONTO (CP) _ A long-time fugitive who peppered a nightclub dance floor with bullets, killing two people and injuring four others, has been sentenced to life in prison with no hope of parole for 15 years. Dudley Forbes showed no regard for people's lives on Sept. 17, 1994 as he fired at least 14 bullets inside and outside an after-hours nightclub, Justice Brian Trafford said Thursday in sentencing Forbes. ``People who went there for an enjoyable night with friends were panic-stricken, screaming in fear, running for safety,'' the judge said. Donovan Samuda, 29, and Howard Deacon, 37, were killed. Forbes' senseless crime grew out of his history of emotionally and physically abusing Lorna Graham, his ex-girlfriend and mother of his boy, who was the real target of his venom that night, the judge said. Trafford also sentenced Forbes to a further concurrent 10 years for aggravated assault in a horrific 1993 knife attack on Graham in the hallway of her apartment building, where he stabbed her 13 times. Forbes, 44, had first pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and four of attempted murder. But after the Crown presented its case, he made a surprising guilty plea to two counts of second-degree murder and one of aggravated assault. He had remained on the loose for 10 years before being arrested in Kingston, Jamaica. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Here come the judgeby knute Someone might question if this judge has the word,(consecutive) in his vocabulary. He must just Liberal. |
only police should have guns ?????by NancyMountie's gun charge postponed till Dec. 20 Date: Dec 8, 2006 10:23 AM PUBLICATION: The Chronicle-Herald DATE: 2006.12.08 SECTION: NovaScotia PAGE: B5 BYLINE: Beverley Ware South Shore Bureau WORD COUNT: 297 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Mountie's gun charge postponed till Dec. 20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- The case of a Lunenburg County Mountie charged with careless use of her semi-automatic pistol will go back before a Bridgewater judge in two weeks. Const. Adree Mohammed Zahara, 40, of Chester Grant Road was arrested Oct. 17 and spent the night in police custody. She was released on a recognizance the next day pending her appearance Wednesday in Bridgewater provincial court. The officer's lawyer, David Bright, told Judge Anne Crawford he has talked with prosecutor Chris Nicholson, who has been brought in from Halifax to handle the case. Mr. Bright said they may be able to resolve the case and are bringing it back before the judge Dec. 20. In the meantime, Const. Zahara must continue to abide by the terms of the undertaking she signed when she was released in October, which prohibited her from having any contact with Chuck Simm, an RCMP officer with the Chester detachment, and Graham Cooke, a Mountie with the Lilydale detachment, and ordered her to stay away from their homes. The document has been amended to allow her to have contact with Const. Cooke. Other conditions of her release are to notify Staff Sgt. Steve Mills of any change in her address or employment, to surrender her firearm to the RCMP and not to use alcohol or illegal drugs. When she signed the undertaking, Const. Zahara also promised not to enter her home until the RCMP had searched it and to live with Dr. Jolene Jarvis in East River. RCMP spokesman Sgt. Frank Skidmore said that in October, several shots from a police pistol blasted into a wall of Const. Zahara's home. He said the gun was never pointed at anyone and no one was hurt. Sgt. Skidmore did not name Const. Zahara at the time because she had not been charged, but he did say the matter involved a female officer and a male officer who are former partners.( The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
CCRKBA CHALLENGES CONYERS TO CLOSE POLIcE GUN LOOPHOLEby NancyCCRKBA CHALLENGES CONYERS TO CLOSE ‘POLICE GUN LOOPHOLE’ BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today challenged incoming House Judiciary Chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) to “close a real loophole” that seems to be putting quite a few guns on the street, particularly in his own congressional district. “Conyers is an avowed anti-gunner who believes only cops should have guns,” observed CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Well, in the past six months, in and around his hometown of Detroit, police have lost at least five guns, including a submachine gun and an M4 semiautomatic rifle that are still missing. Instead of looking for ways to restrict our gun rights, maybe Mr. Conyers ought to be looking for those missing guns. “Of course,” Gottlieb said, “the typical Conyers approach would be to hold every cop in the country responsible and institute some one-size-fits-all regulation for how police take care of their firearms. That would be ridiculous. The overwhelming majority of lawmen and women are responsible with their firearms. So, too, are the majority of gun owners. They’re not criminals and should not be treated like they are, yet gun laws Conyers and his cronies have supported over the years do exactly that. ” “For years,” said CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron, “anti-gunners have campaigned against a mythical gun show loophole. A Department of Justice study of state and federal prison inmates found that less than one percent of these criminals got their guns from gun shows, and the anti-gunners know it. But instead of going after criminals, they use the crimes these thugs commit as an excuse to attack the rights of law-abiding gun owners. “This campaign against gun shows is a fraud,” Waldron added, “designed only to fool American citizens into believing that something is being done about keeping guns out of the wrong hands. It’s a deplorable charade.” “We’ve still got a reward posted for the recovery of anti-gun Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske’s stolen pistol,” Gottlieb noted. “It was taken from his car, parked on a downtown Seattle street in 2004 while he and his wife were shopping. There have been firearms stolen from SWAT vehicles, guns lost by cops in rest rooms, and yet the gun control crowd insists that the problem is with gun shows and law-abiding gun owners. “The only loophole,” Gottlieb said, “lies in the collective imagination of Conyers and his ilk. Unlike them, we would never hold every cop responsible for the lapses of a few, same as we don’t hold all gun owners responsible for crimes committed by armed criminals. Every time one of these thefts happens, it reflects badly on every over-worked, under-appreciated, often under-paid police officer and sheriff’s deputy in the country. Holding all of them responsible is as silly as blaming gun shows and gun owners for this country’s crime problem.” -END- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < Please e-mail, distribute, and circulate to friends and family > The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !
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Only the military should have guns????????????????by NancyU.S. Ranger gave me AK-47: robber: Date: Dec 9, 2006 11:54 AM PUBLICATION: National Post DATE: 2006.12.09 EDITION: All but Toronto SECTION: News PAGE: A10 BYLINE: David Bowermaster SOURCE: McClatchy Newspapers DATELINE: TACOMA, Wash. ILLUSTRATION: Black & White Photo: FBI / Luke Sommer is a dual citizen. NOTE: Ran with fact box "In His Own Words" which has been appendedto the story. WORD COUNT: 503 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- U.S. Ranger gave me AK-47: robber: Canadian fighting extradition fingered as heist ringleader ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- TACOMA, Wash. - A former U.S. Army Ranger recruited people to rob a bank, gave them loaded semi-automatic handguns and told them to lob a grenade at police if officers arrived, a man involved in the heist told investigators. Luke Sommer, a dual American-Canadian from Peachland, B.C., was the leader of the heist, according to Chad Palmer who was charged with taking part in the robbery of a Tacoma bank in August and has pleaded guilty to two charges. He has also provided investigators with details of Mr. Sommer's alleged role. Mr. Sommer was arrested in Canada a few days after the robbery and is under house arrest at his mother's home. He is fighting extradition to the United States. Mr. Sommer has not directly admitted his role, but said this week that if he did organize the robbery, it was part of an audacious plan to use the notoriety he would gain to expose war crimes by the U.S. military in Iraq in 2004 and Afghanistan in 2005. Palmer's admissions are a major break in the government's investigation. He is the first of the five men accused of direct involvement in the robbery to admit his role, and it appears he is providing critical details to investigators about how the bank robbery was planned and executed. A private 1st class from Chesapeake, Va., Palmer, 21, pleaded guilty on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to one count of armed bank robbery and one count of brandishing a machine gun during a crime of violence. Palmer told investigators that Mr. Sommer recruited him and the others to take part in the robbery of a Bank of America branch. At 5:15 p.m. on Aug. 7, four masked gunmen carrying AK-47s and semi-automatic handguns stormed the bank and stole $54,000. They then made off in a getaway car driven by a fifth man. One day before the robbery, Palmer told investigators, Mr. Sommer gave him a loaded, fully-automatic AK-47 to use during the heist. Palmer said Mr. Sommer also provided loaded semi-automatic handguns to other participants. Palmer told investigators the robbers inside the bank wore soft body armor to protect themselves in case of a shootout with police. Mr. Sommer also proposed that Palmer throw a hand grenade at the police if law-enforcement officers arrived during the heist but Palmer declined, according to prosecutors. Government filings in the case do not indicate that investigators have evidence that any of the alleged robbers had explosives during the raid. However, Richard Olinger, another Army Ranger who is a friend of Mr. Sommer, pleaded guilty last month to storing two hand grenades and a homemade bomb for Mr. Sommer in a storage locker in Parkland a few days before the robbery. Palmer also discussed Mr. Sommer's motives with investigators. According to Palmer, Mr. Sommer told him that he wanted to use the proceeds of the robbery to start a crime family to rival the Hell's Angels in British Columbia. IN HIS OWN WORDS Alleged bank robber and former U.S. Army Ranger Luke Sommer keeps a blog. Get the details and more on this story under online extras.; nationalpost.com The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Merry Christmas All !by Nancybest wishes and safety for the coming new year! The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !
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JPFO ALERT: The Wrong Rabbiby NancyJPFO ALERT: The Wrong Rabbi Date: Dec 12, 2006 10:21 AM ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization December 12, 2006 JPFO ALERT: The Wrong Rabbi Recently the Christmas trees that graced the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for the past 25 years were removed. The reason? Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky threatened to sue if the trees weren't "balanced out" by a Menorah to honor the Jewish holiday of Chanuka. http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2715008&page=1 The airport decided removing the trees was the only viable solution. Explains Patricia Davis, president of the Seattle Port Commission, "We were faced with the choice of spending unknown amounts of the public's money on litigation, or, in the next few days, trying to figure out how to accommodate all the cultures in our society." Rabbi Bogomilsky is reportedly "appalled" at the result. One wonders what, exactly, the Rabbi thought would happen. He threatened the airport with a lawsuit if it did not include a symbol of his religion. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of religions within the United States alone, many of which celebrate a holiday on or around December 25. Had the airport bowed to the Rabbi's demands, it is a virtual certainty that representatives of many of those religions would follow suit. The Rabbi's demand to add a Jewish holiday symbol to the airport's Christmas display was both ridiculous and short-sighted. In his quest for "equal" holiday representation, he only succeeded in eliminating from the public eye a symbol of peace, charity, fellowship and love. As it happens, the Rabbi came on Michael Medved's national radio show on December 11 and admitted that he was wrong. He forthrightly stated that he did not ever want the Christmas trees actually removed, that the whole issue got out of hand. He admitted that he had not thought about the results of threatening a lawsuit, and he frankly regretted everything he did. The Rabbi now wants the Christmas trees restored, with or without a Menorah. From JPFO's perspective, the key message for Jews is not to worry so much about "equal time" for the Menorah. Rather, it is important for Jews -- and everyone -- to respect and be thankful for the Christian Americans who established a nation with a Bill of Rights and a welcoming culture of individual freedom that have provided the safest place on Earth for minorities of all types. Now what we need to do -- whether gathered around the Menorah or the Christmas Tree -- is pledge to join together to protect our American values and way of life. We can start on America's first holy day in December: Bill of Rights Day, December 15. - The Liberty Crew Update: Just prior to sending this alert, we received the following news story: Trees Being Returned to SeaTac Airport http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061212/D8LV9I1G0.html The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
5,194 HOMICIDES IN 9 YEARS: 2.27% OF GUNS USED WERE REGISTEREDby Nancy5,194 HOMICIDES IN 9 YEARS: 2.27% OF GUNS USED WERE REGISTERED Date: Dec 7, 2006 12:20 PM NEWS RELEASE - December 7, 2006 5,194 HOMICIDES IN 9 YEARS: 2.27% OF GUNS USED WERE REGISTERED "Statistics Canada tables also show only 2.1% of murderers had a valid firearms licence." http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/breitkreuzgpress/2006/dec7.htm The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Letter: Confiscating guns isn't the answerby Nancy :)Letter: Confiscating guns isn't the answer Date: Dec 7, 2006 1:50 PM PUBLICATION: The Whitehorse Star DATE: 2006.12.06 SECTION: Opinion PAGE: 11 WORD COUNT: 130 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Confiscating guns isn't the answer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- If banning and confiscating legally-owned pistols were the answer, England wouldn't be a place where gun crime was approaching and even exceeding U.S. levels. If banning and confiscating legally-owned semi-automatic rifles were the answer, Australia wouldn't be looking at skyrocketting armed robbery rates. If lots and lots of guns in civilian homes caused deadly crime, Switzerland wouldn't be one of the most boringly safe places in Europe. If a future Liberal government does go through with its promise of banning and confiscating pistols, that would mean chasing urban and Quebec votes from Canadians less trusted by our government than the citizens of countries like Paraguay, Singapore, Taiwan, Lithuania, Andorra, Argentina, and El Salvador, just to name a few. Those citizens are trusted by their countries. It's scary what politicians will do to get back into power. Ana Pereira The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Women take time to target Self-defenseby Nancy :)Firearm skills can fend off muggings, car jackings http://www.cortezjournal.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/06/news061205_2.htm The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Positive gun article from U of U newspaperby Nancy :)Positive gun article from U of U newspaper Date: Dec 6, 2006 2:37 PM Compatriots, Can you imagine what a fantastic shooter we would all be if we practiced 10 hours a week like this kid? Interesting story. Pancho V. Top gun Student shooter aims for 2012 Olympics By: Ana Breton Issue date: 12/6/06 Section: News You're standing in the middle of the Olympics Training Center, just you and your pistol, pointed straight at the target. One of your eyes is closed; the other is focused on the quarter-sized circle more than a football field away that you have to hit. Judges, who are only waiting to see if you hit the target, surround you. They roll their eyes impatiently. They have 80 more people to judge. Suddenly, you realize the coach of the National Shooting Team is looking over your shoulder. You have fewer than two minutes to make the shot. No pressure. You aim. You shoot. It's dead on. Unfortunately, you have no time to celebrate; you have to do it 60 more times. This was what Nicholas Zachman, a senior in political science and international studies, experienced last weekend during a shooting competition in Colorado Springs, Colo. Zachman was the only member from the U Collegiate Pistol Team to compete in the match, which acted as a tryout for the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And although Zachman didn't qualify, he said it was the biggest match of his career. He placed 16th in the nation. "It was such an important match, I didn't know what to do," he said. "Luckily, when the national coach was looking at me, I did well, so hopefully I left a good impression." And Zachman has been leaving good impressions since the very beginning. He first picked up a pistol two years ago, when a friend suggested he take a marksmanship class to fulfill the extra credit hour his degree required. Other than shooting black powder guns as a child, Zachman had never shot a pistol before he enrolled in the class. Now, he is the president of the U Pistol Team. "Turns out I had a knack for it," he said, adding that shooting is all about concentration. "It's not difficult, you just have to subject yourself to focus," he said. "You just have to push everything to the back of your mind because you can't think of anything else or else it hurts your shooting." Zachman trains nine to 10 hours a week (only four during finals). So far, he has competed in more than 20 local and national matches each year. His favorite match memories include shooting at the New York Military Academy and at a range in Georgia. "The morning was cool and foggy in Georgia," he said. "It reminded me a lot of what it would have been like in the Civil War." His next competition is the preliminary tryouts for the Olympics on Jan. 5. Zachman said he's always wanted to be an Olympian. However, he would have to quit school to save up to go to Beijing in 2008. "Beijing (is) out of question," he said. "I would love to go in 2012, but it may be too far in advance. It all depends what I want to do as a career." Until then, he's saving up and working two jobs--assisting operations during the graveyard shift at LDS Hospital and installing video systems for General Communication. Team adviser Matt DeLong said Zachman has a serious shot for the 2012 Olympics. "He is a gifted and dedicated shooter," DeLong said. "If he musters the mental game, he will be a force to be reckoned with." If professional shooting doesn't work out, Zachman said he would like to work for the government in a state department job. When he graduates, he plans to enlist in the army and serve for at least four years. "I love shooting because I get a feeling of self control. At that moment, when I'm shooting, I know that I'm controlling all of my thoughts," he said. "It's almost like a Zen artist. Like a feeling that you can conquer anything." James D. "Mitch" Vilos Attorney at Law P.O. Box 1148 Centerville, Utah 84014 Local Tel.No.: (801)295-3340 Mobile: (801)560-7117 1(800)530-0222 Practice Concentrating in Accidents and Personal Injury, Insurance Law, Medical Malpractice, Defective Products, Workplace Injuries (not Worker's Compensation), and Firearms Law (representation of gun owners in criminal actions, and expungements). The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Canada: Armed Homeowner shoots one of two home invadersby nancyHome invaded; man shot Date: Dec 5, 2006 9:26 AM PUBLICATION: The Whitehorse Star DATE: 2006.12.04 SECTION: Yukon PAGE: 4 WORD COUNT: 246 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Home invaded; man shot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- A 34-year-old Watson Lake man remains in a Vancouver hospital recovering from a gunshot wound to his right thigh. The man was sent to Vancouver after having been shot during a home invasion in the southeast Yukon community on Saturday. Watson Lake RCMP were called to a nearby Upper Liard home at at 7 a.m. They had been told a person had been injured. Officers and medical personnel found two men injured, one suffering from a gunshot wound. The homeowner also had injuries such as bruising and cuts. As they continued their investigation, police learned two men had gone into the house and assaulted its owner. The homeowner eventually managed to free himself, get a firearm and shoot one of the two men in his house while the other escaped. Three long-barrel firearms were later seized from the home, Grant MacDonald, the acting M Division RCMP spokesman, said this morning. Both injured men were taken to Watson Lake Hospital before being transferred to Whitehorse General Hospital (WGH). While the shooting victim was later medivaced to Vancouver for his serious injury, he was in stable condition, WGH spokeswoman Val Pike said this morning. Meanwhile, the 35-year-old homeowner was treated overnight at WGH for head trauma, bruising and cuts before being released on Sunday, she said. As police continue their investigation, MacDonald said they will look at whether the three Watson Lake men knew one another, details such as how they entered the home and what type of charges could be laid. "The invasion is believed to be an isolated incident," MacDonald said. RCMP are also continuing to search for the second man involved, though a description was not available this morning. MacDonald noted the public's assistance isn't required at this time, but anyone with information can call RCMP or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Letter: Other ways to killby nancyLetter: Other ways to kill Date: Dec 4, 2006 11:42 AM PUBLICATION: The Province DATE: 2006.12.03 EDITION: Final SECTION: Editorial PAGE: A21 BYLINE: Colin Parkinson SOURCE: The Province WORD COUNT: 76 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Other ways to kill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Statistics Canada reports that of the 622 homicides in 2004, 172 were by firearm. So, can we expect The Province will give equal time to the other gruesome ways that people kill each other? One would think by your reporting that only those killed or injured by a firearm are worth talking about. If you are merely beaten, stabbed, strangled or burned to death, then it seems barely newsworthy. I guess some of the dead are more equal than others? Of the 172 killed, less than four per cent were by way of legally registered firearms, of which there are at least two million. Going by these figures, the safest place you can be is a gun range, something insurers understand. Colin Parkinson, North Vancouver The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Re: "Knife sales must be controlled," Letters, Nov. 30.by nancyRe: "Knife sales must be controlled," Letters, Nov. 30. Date: Dec 4, 2006 9:10 AM PUBLICATION: Edmonton Journal DATE: 2006.12.04 EDITION: Final SECTION: Letters PAGE: A19 BYLINE: Sue Oancia-Andersen SOURCE: The Edmonton Journal WORD COUNT: 89 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Too many controls ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Re: "Knife sales must be controlled," by Elke Blodgett, Letters, Nov. 30. The thought that killings can be reduced or eliminated by controlling the sale of knives is a knee-jerk reaction to a far more complicated social issue. It isn't the weapons that need to be controlled; it's the behaviour of the violent members of society that must be addressed. We have gun control, sort of, yet the shootings continue. So now we'll need knife control, hammer control, scissor control, screwdriver control and control of whatever else can be used as a weapon. Sue Oancia-Andersen, Edmonton The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
TAKE OUR GUNS - TAKE OUR LIVESby NancyTAKE OUR GUNS - TAKE OUR LIVES By Jim R. Schwiesow November 27, 2006 NewsWithViews.com http://www.newswithviews.com/Schwiesow/jim8.htm Tell me when did liberty ever exist when the sword and the purse were given up? --Patrick Henry Patrick Henry led us into this column, and he will take us out, “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect anyone who approaches that jewel! Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force, and whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined!” --------------------------------------------------------- Jim Schwiesow is a retired sheriff with 46 years of law enforcement service. He served with the Unites States Army with the occupation forces in post war Berlin, Germany, and has a total of nine years of military service, which includes six years in the U.S. Army Reserve. His law enforcement service includes: three years in the military police, fifteen years as an Iowa municipal police officer, and twenty-eight years as the duly elected sheriff of Sioux County, Iowa. Jim has written a number of articles, which have been published in various professional law enforcement journals The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Head of NRA touts gunmakerby Nancy :) Head of NRA touts gunmaker Date: Nov 30, 2006 9:45 PM http://www.masslive.com/business/republican/index.ssf?/base/business-1/116487899191340.xml&coll=1&thispage=1 The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Letter: Gun control does not workby NancyLetter: Gun control does not work Date: Nov 30, 2006 8:45 AM PUBLICATION: The Toronto Star DATE: 2006.11.30 EDITION: ONT SECTION: Letter PAGE: A25 BYLINE: WORD COUNT: 241 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Gun control does not work ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Liberals, Bloc join gun-control call, thestar.com, Nov. 28. I continue to believe more strongly each time that I see it that reputed "educated" and "intelligent" people continue to advocate and push solutions to problems that will not solve, let alone address, the root causes of the issues in the first place. I can appreciate the opposition wanting to score political points, yet using the increasing amounts of criminal activity with illegal firearms as a raison d'etre to ban legal firearms, when it has been clearly shown in the past to be a complete failure, leads me to question the intelligence and education of the Liberals and BQ. Truly looking at the issue outside of party lines is necessary. The Conservatives are not advocating relinquishing any control in regards to guns, as is regularlly claimed by opposition groups. The focus here is two-fold, firstly to rework the existing gun licensing system to do a better job of preventing unstable people from getting firearms and the second issue is criminal use of firearms which remain unregistered and unregulated. How are tighter controls going to prevent either? They aren't. Continuing to strike at people who follow the law and exercise the benefits of a free country is reprehensible and reminiscent of people who desire a police state. And we know additional gun control still misses the criminal use of illegal firearms, altogther. If we want to stop needless, senseless deaths, we need to address criminal control, not gun control. Sean Bolli, Calgary, Alta. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Letter: Brave police, not gun registry,by NancyLetter: Brave police, not gun registry, Date: Nov 30, 2006 8:18 AM PUBLICATION: The Ottawa Citizen DATE: 2006.11.30 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PNAME: Letters PAGE: A13 BYLINE: Robert Jensen SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen WORD COUNT: 87 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Brave police, not gun registry, halted Dawson shootings ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Re: Time for another Valium, Nov. 29. It's disappointing to hear the calls coming from the Dawson College students lobbying for "gun control" to maintain the $2-billion gun registry abomination currently in place. The unfortunate events that occurred in their school were not in any way impeded by any paper certificate issued by the Canadian Firearms Centre, but rather it was stopped by five brave police officers. Would it not make more sense to put those billions into policing, where it will actually make a difference? Robert Jensen, Petawawa The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
RETIRED RCMP OFFICER: I have yet to meet an actual officer who does support itby Nancy RETIRED RCMP OFFICER: I have yet to meet an actual officer who does support it Date: Nov 30, 2006 8:04 AM -----Original Message----- From: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Sent: November 30, 2006 5:34 AM To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V10 #55 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:08:19 -0400 From: "Jim Hill" <jjhill@ns.sympatico.ca> Subject: Fw: The head of the National Rifle Association comes up to Toronto to say gun owners everywhere face the same threat to their rights - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Hill" <jjhill@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <mark.bonokoski@tor.sunpub.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:55 PM Subject: The head of the National Rifle Association comes up to Toronto to say gun owners everywhere face the same threat to their rights Mark, I just finished reading your article on Sandy Froman's speech to the CSSA. Thank you for a balanced view on this. We are so used to seeing almost rabid blathering in certain media in Toronto. You were a breath of fresh air indeed! I, as a retired RCMP officer with over 26 years experience can attest that contrary to Wendy Cukier's statements to the effect that this registry has the backing of Police officers across the country, it is, in fact, seen as a pain in the ass by actual police officers on the street. I have yet to meet an actual officer who does support it. Ms. Cukier makes much about the Canadian Association of Chief of Police and the Canadian Professional Policemen's Association representing thousands of police officers. They in fact do not enjoy the support she suggests as their positions are purely political. They mouth the words politicians want to hear in order to a.) hold their position or b.) try to gain something else for their continuing support. Any time I have ever brought this matter up to serving policemen I invariably get the response that ($@%!*&) does not represent me or anyone I know. This leads to the question "Why do you continue to elect him to this position? The answer is usually "it gets him off the street!" Background checks were not even done on the majority of applicants! If they had been I surely would have been able to find that at least one gun owner, of the many I have spoken to over the years would have been able to tell me that the reference persons had been contacted to ask about the applicant. I have yet to find one and I continue to ask every gun owner I come into contact with. If the references had been checked, there are some who would have been denied the license. One person deliberately listed two persons with known criminal records for references, one of the references was the man who had broken into the Prime Minister's residence on Sussex Drive when Chretien was in power. The person got his license with no questions, and upon receiving his license, notified the media of the circumstances. Even more telling for Possession and Acquisition License (PAL) holders, we had to have our Spouse sign the application to indicate that they were aware we were applying for this license. This leads me to the second question. As this was a law that came about as a result of 14 women being killed by Gamil Gharbi and it was supposed to make women safer, one would think that a simple phone call to the spouse of the applicant or a visit to the address to confirm that it was indeed her signature on the form and it was not signed under duress. This has never happened with any of the people I have spoken to. If this was such a good law, why did I receive a certificate registering a firearm to me that I have never owned? I had never even heard of the make before. An Internet query verified it was a legitimate gun maker, yet they did not make firearms of the type described on the certificate and no firearm bearing the serial number shown on the certificate had been exported to Canada. It turned out that the company makes black powder rifles mostly. I do not now, nor have I ever owned one in the past. One might also ask Ms. Cukier, why two former RCMP Commissioners, several retired commissioned officers, Former Toronto Police Chief Julien Fantino along with many other retired and some serving police officers of all ranks so publicly opposed this law. Could it be that they are sick to death of "feel good legislation" catering to particular groups in the hopes it will benefit them in any coming elections. Anyway, this went longer than I intended, so if you make it this far down in the e-mail Thanks again for an article that was refreshingly honest! Jim Hill 3980 #2 Hwy., Fletchers Lake, N.S. Home: 902-860-3006 "Do not be afraid of enemies; the worst they can do is to kill you. Do not be afraid of friends; the worst they can do is betray you. Be afraid of the indifferent; they do not kill or betray. But only because of their silent agreement, betrayal and murder exist on earth." - -- Bruno Yasienski - "The Plot of the Indifferent" (1937) ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V10 #55 The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Column: With guns we are citizens, without them we are subjectsby NancyColumn: With guns we are citizens, without them we are subjects Date: Nov 30, 2006 7:40 AM CHINOOK OBSERVER - November 29, 2006 Fish & Feathers: With guns we are citizens, without them we are subjects By Capt. RON MALAST http://www.chinookobserver.info/main.asp?SectionID=12&SubSectionID=30&ArticleID=16525&TM=27425.38 The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Gun Control: Civil Society?by NancyI'VE SAID THIS BEFORE AND I"LL KEEP ON SAYNG IT UNTIL YOU LIBERAL FEMALE ANTI SELF DEFENSE @#$%^&* GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK HEADS: IF you REALLY give a DAMN about protecting women, leave their RIGHT to own a self defense firearm ALONE!!!!!! HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound. ________________________________________________________ Gun Control: Civil Society? Date: Nov 30, 2006 7:35 AM NewsBusters - USA Gun Control: Civil Society? By Howard Nemerov - November 29, 2006 http://newsbusters.org/node/9336 The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
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A VERY Merry Christmmas ! :)by NancyBennington Banner: Guns aren't on hazardous list Date: Nov 29, 2006 9:28 PM Perhaps if you ask Santa nicely... Guns aren't on hazardous list Well, here we are again rapidly approaching that most wonderful time of the year. Unless you just got off the boat with Borat you understand the social dictates of gross consumerism associated with the upcoming season. To help save us from ourselves consumer groups are releasing lists of hazardous toys. Being a good parent I try to heed the warnings. I was going to get my son a video game. But with all the violent action and sexual content that idea got nixed. A home generator kit contains magnets that could be swallowed. Toys with lead paint, small pieces, sharp edges, gender and age inappropriate the list is endless. I finally said, "to hell with it;" he's getting a deer rifle; it's not on any list. CLAYTON KIP Bennington The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Election Wasn't a Vote for Gun Controlby Nancy |
LIBERALS OPPOSED TO THE GUN REGISTRYby NancyLIBERALS OPPOSED TO THE GUN REGISTRY Date: Nov 28, 2006 4:18 PM • Michael Ignatieff (Etobicoke-Lakeshore) also favoured revisiting the issue of gun control, saying the registry was a useful tool for police, but he didn’t want to see an infringement on the rights of gun owners. (Kenora Daily Miner and News, August 4, 2006) • “The gun registry, it’s a disaster, it’s a living, breathing scandal, it has cost 1.2 billion dollars” – Jean Lapierre (Outremont) (TQS News, March 3, 2003). • “Even if it will cost more than a billion dollars, it’s a mess, the system doesn’t work” – Jean Lapierre (CKAC 730, March 3, 2003). • “We should be getting rid of the long-gun registry. A billion dollars would have been better spent on health care or education or, for instance, in strengthening the RCMP” – Scott Brison (Kings-Hants) (Halifax Daily News, February 2, 2003) • “As a mother, I am scared by gun violence. I would stiffen the penalties for crimes involving guns. What I would not do is to penalize law-abiding farmers and hunters who use firearms as a tool. While strengthening gun control, I would scrap the gun registry and use the money to fight against illegal guns and drugs.” – Belinda Stronach (Newmarket-Aurora) (National Post, January 21, 2004) • Larry Bagnell (Yukon) says he supports the Conservatives' announcements regarding the beginnings of their effort to repeal the gun registry. (Whitehorse Daily Star, May 23, 2006) • Roger Valley (Kenora) said he supports the Conservative government's plans for the Canadian Firearms Centre. "I will vote with the Conservatives to get rid of the long-gun registry," the Liberal said. (Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal, May 26, 2006) • "I'm inclined to vote against the long-gun registry because I don't believe it has been as effective as the original intent had claimed it would be.” – Wayne Easter (Malpeque) (Charlottetown Guardian, July 25, 2006) • Ken Dryden also said that while he doesn't personally approve of guns, millions of dollars have already been spent on gun-control legislation, so the government must now determine if it is worth the expense and if it actually works. ``Is it a useful investment? If it isn't, get rid of it,'' he said. (Lethbridge Herald, CP, September 14, 2006) • "Criminals and those who wish to do harm by firearms will always find ways of getting firearms." - Paul Steckle (Huron-Bruce) (National Post, March 10, 2005 The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
CCRKBA to Bloomberg: Police State Mentality Breeds Poor Judgement, Quick Triggersby NancyCCRKBA to Bloomberg: Police State Mentality Breeds Poor Judgement, Quick Triggers Date: Nov 28, 2006 3:01 PM NEWS RELEASE CCRKBA TO BLOOMBERG: POLICE STATE MENTALITY BREEDS POOR JUDGMENT, QUICK TRIGGERS BELLEVUE, WA – While citizens in New York search for answers in the horrendous shooting death of an unarmed man hours before he would have married his high school sweetheart, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says a factor nobody wants to discuss could be the anti-gun mentality fostered in that city for generations. “The mere thought that a citizen may have had a firearm seems to have contributed to the terrible shooting death of Sean Bell,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb. “Nobody would suggest for a moment that police officers can’t protect themselves from genuine threats from armed criminals, but the Nov. 25 incident leaves too many unanswered questions, not the least of which should be an examination of why officers involved in the shooting fired at least 50 shots when nobody actually saw a gun. As it turns out, neither Bell nor his two companions, both of whom were wounded, was armed. “For years,” Gottlieb said, “New Yorkers, including police officers, have been subliminally taught to perceive any armed person as a threat. That’s what happens in an environment where only the police, and a few elitist cronies of city hall, can legally carry guns. You create what amounts to a police state, where cops are a little too hasty to pull a trigger when somebody yells ‘gun’.” Noting that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg would like to see the entire nation subjected to the kinds of Draconian gun laws now enforced against New York City residents, Gottlieb said it could lead to adoption of a “police state mentality” among rank and file cops. “Bloomberg’s contempt for the average citizen’s right to bear arms is pretty well-established,” Gottlieb said. “Millions of law-abiding citizens legally carry firearms every day in places outside New York City; places where police know better than to automatically reach for their guns, and use them, just because they think they see someone with a gun. Bloomberg’s vision for America could wind up being a place where the people fear, rather than support, their local police. Well, this is still the United States, not a police state.” -END- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < Please e-mail, distribute, and circulate to friends and family > The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
EDITOR (Now if only we could convince our politicians)by NancyEDITOR (Now if only we could convince our politicians) Date: Nov 29, 2006 10:07 AM PUBLICATION: The Toronto Sun DATE: 2006.11.29 EDITION: Final SECTION: Editorial/Opinion PAGE: 22 COLUMN: Letters to the Editor BONO'S ON TARGET Re "Page Six" (Nov. 28): Kudos to Mark Bonokoski for writing this outstanding column, and thanks to the Toronto Sun for publishing it. I know Bono is generally sympathetic to the plight of the law abiding gun owners of Canada, but this column goes far above and beyond that. Calling into question the Anti-Gun Lobby's irrational fear of guns and those who own and use them responsibly, and their attempts to make the NRA out to be the Evil Shibboleth of all that is wrong in society, is certainly the first step in the right direction. Law abiding gun owners are not, and never have been, the "problem." Criminals and the hug-a-thug policies of the Liberals are. Bruce N. Mills Dundas EDITOR (Now if only we could convince our politicians) The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
FW: Liberals and the NRA - JUST THE FACTS / Les libéraux et la NRA - ALLONS DROIT AUX FAITby NancyFW: Liberals and the NRA - JUST THE FACTS / Les libéraux et la NRA - ALLONS DROIT AUX FAITS Date: Nov 29, 2006 7:42 AM ______________________________________________ From: CRG – Communications / GRC - Communications Sent: November 28, 2006 7:35 PM Subject: Liberals and the NRA - JUST THE FACTS / Les libéraux et la NRA - ALLONS DROIT AUX FAITS JUST THE FACTS/ ALLONS DROIT AUX FAITS Date: November 28, 2006 Today Liberal MPs led by Bill Graham (Toronto Centre) and Belinda Stronach (Newmarket-Aurora) are once engaged in baseless attacks and yet more Liberal fear-mongering. If the Liberals are truly concerned about those who have met with the NRA, perhaps they can explain why their choice for keynote speaker at their upcoming convention was a U.S. Governor who was endorsed by the NRA eight times!: The facts: • During the 2004 American Presidential election, Democratic candidate John Kerry criticized Howard Dean for his policies on gun control. • John Kerry criticized Dean's 1992 statement to the National Rifle Association that he opposed any restriction on private ownership of assault weapons. "Howard Dean's opposition to sensible gun safety measures is indefensible," Kerry said. "It explains why he has been endorsed by the NRA eight times. I believe we must put the safety of our children and families ahead of special interests like the NRA." Associated Press in Minneapolis Star-Tribune Oct 31, 2003) • Dean responded, "I come from a rural state with a very low homicide rate. We had five homicides one year. It's a state where hunting is a part of our life. I understand that's not the traditional Democratic position." Dean said "when you're running for governor, they ask you what you would do in your state." Dean aides said the opposition to restrictions on assault weapons that Dean expressed on the signed 1992 NRA questionnaire applied only to a state ban, defined broadly enough to also apply to shotguns commonly used by hunters in Vermont. (Associated Press in Minneapolis Star-Tribune Oct 31, 2003) • Several Liberal MPs, including Stronach herself, are on record as opposing the gun registry! ------------------------------- ALLONS DROIT AUX FAITS / JUST THE FACTS Date : le 28 novembre 2006 Des députés libéraux, dont Bill Graham (Toronto-Centre) et Belinda Stronach (Newmarket-Aurora), ont une fois de plus semé la peur et émis des critiques sans fondement. Si les libéraux se préoccupent véritablement des personnes qui se sont mis en contact avec des membres de la National Rifle Association (NRA), peut-être peuvent-ils alors expliquer pourquoi ils ont choisi à titre d'orateur principal pour leur prochain congrès un gouverneur américain qui a reçu l’appui de la NRA à huit reprises. Les faits • Lors de la campagne pour les élections présidentielles américaines de 2004, le candidat démocrate John Kerry a critiqué les politiques de Howard Dean concernant le contrôle des armes à feu. • John Kerry a critiqué la déclaration faite par M. Dean en 1992 devant la NRA à l’effet qu’il s’opposait à toute restriction visant la possession personnelle d’armes d’assaut. « L'opposition de Howard Dean à des mesures sensées de contrôle des armes à feu est injustifiable », a affirmé M. Kerry. « Cela explique pourquoi la NRA l'a appuyé à huit reprises. À mon avis, il faut donner préséance à la sécurité de nos enfants et de nos familles et non aux groupes d'intérêt comme la NRA. » [TRADUCTION] (StarTribune de Minneapolis, en collaboration avec l’Associated Press, 31 octobre 2003) • En guise de réponse, M. Dean a affirmé : « Je viens d’un État rural où le taux d’homicide est très faible. Il y a une année où il ne s'est produit que cinq homicides. Chasser fait partie fait partie de notre culture. Je comprends qu’il ne s’agit pas de la position traditionnelle des démocrates. Cependant, lorsque vous vous présentez comme candidat au poste de gouverneur, on vous demande ce que vous entendez faire pour votre État. » L’assistant de M. Dean a affirmé que l’opposition de ce dernier aux restrictions sur les armes d’assaut auxquelles M. Dean faisait référence dans le questionnaire de la NRA qu'il a rempli en 1992 ne concernait que l'interdiction au sein de l’État. Le tout était exprimé de manière si vague qu'il aurait aussi pu s’agir des fusils de chasse fréquemment utilisés par les chasseurs dans l’État du Vermont. [TRADUCTION] (StarTribune de Minneapolis, en collaboration avec l’Associated Press, 31 octobre 2003) • Plusieurs députés libéraux, dont Belinda Stronach, se sont officiellement opposés au registre des armes à feu. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
JPFO ALERT: Begging for Freedomby NancyJPFO ALERT: Begging for Freedom Date: Nov 28, 2006 1:35 PM ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization November 28, 2006 JPFO ALERT: Begging for Freedom The Declaration of Independence states that all men are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". This means that there are certain rights which everyone has, simply by being alive. Yet we are often reduced to petitioning politicians to acknowledge these rights. Bill of Rights Day is December 15, less than three weeks away. While we applaud those politicians who introduce a Bill of Rights Day resolution, and those local governments that agree to it, we want to stress that it is NOT necessary to wait for government to throw you a few crumbs. There are lots of things you can do without a politician's "permission": - Set up a celebration of your own at a restaurant, library, or other venue, even if means only two people will meet and talk about regaining our freedoms. Maybe invite a local politician! - Read and share our article, "You'll be Freer and Richer in the Bill of Rights Culture" at www.jpfo.org/borculture.htm - Call or email someone and talk about our rights. - Send the JPFO Bill of Rights Day form letters to a local publication ( www.jpfo.org/bord.htm ). - Heed the wisdom of Uncle Sam with a poster or stickers at www.jpfo.org/unclesamcolor.pdf and www.jpfo.org/stickers.htm - Have students read the JPFO freedom booklets "It's Common Sense to Use Our Bill of Rights" and "The UN is Destroying Your Freedom" (www.jpfo.org/gj.htm ) - Or choose from any number of other ideas at www.jpfo.org/bord.htm So don't wait for your local politicians to answer your pleadings. You have your rights -- USE THEM! - The Liberty Crew ============================================================ JPFO mirror site: http://www.jpfo.net ============================================================ LET JPFO KEEP YOU INFORMED -- Sign up today for JPFO Alerts! Just send a blank e-mail to jpfoalerts-subscribe@jpfo.org. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to jpfoalerts-unsubscribe@jpfo.org ============================================================= Regain your freedom - download the song "Justice Day" today! http://www.rebelfirerock.com/downloadjd.html ============================================================= Original Material in JPFO ALERTS is Copyright 2006 JPFO, Inc. Permission is granted to reproduce this alert in full, so long as the following JPFO contact information is included: Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership PO Box 270143 Hartford, Wisconsin 53027 Phone: 1-262-673-9745 Order line: 1-800-869-1884 (toll-free!) Fax: 1-262-673-9746 Web: http://www.jpfo.org/ ============================================================= The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
In U.S., women go wild for huntingby NancyIn U.S., women go wild for hunting Date: Nov 27, 2006 6:52 AM http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=inDepthNews&storyID=2006-11-24T190953Z_01_N10253288_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-USA-HUNTING.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-inDepthNews-2 In U.S., women go wild for hunting Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:10 PM ET By Sarah Mahoney FREEPORT, Maine (Reuters) - It's deer season in Maine and although the hunting department of outdoor retail specialist L.L. Bean is packed, this is no old-boy's club. Among the aisles of aerosol deer urine and digital duck calls, there are racks of women's clothing in mossy-oak camouflage, as well as plenty of fluorescent hunter orange. Lined up behind the counter are dozens of guns, many available with a "short-stock" designed to fit more comfortably into women's shorter arms. That's because an increasing number of women are heading into the woods, becoming one of the most enthusiastic segments of the hunting world. Take Laura Beth Fowler, an 18-year-old from McKenzie, Tennessee, who took up shooting three years ago and is now a member of one of the few all-girl trap-shooting teams in the country. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Head of the NRA comes up to Torontoby NancyHead of the NRA comes up to Toronto Date: Nov 28, 2006 8:00 AM PUBLICATION: The Toronto Sun DATE: 2006.11.28 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: 6 ILLUSTRATION: photo by Dave Thomas/ Sandra Froman, president of the National Rifle Association, spoke in Toronto on the weekend. WORD COUNT: 764 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- The head of the National Rifle Association comes up to Toronto to say gun owners everywhere face the same threat to their rights ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- She is the antithesis of the oft-parodied image of former National Rifle Association president, actor Charlton Heston, holding an antique Revolutionary War-era muzzle loader aloft back in 2000, and warning anti-gun proponents that they'd have to pry it "from my cold dead hands." Yet Sandy Froman is what Heston once was -- president of the four-million-strong NRA, one of the largest and most powerful lobby groups in the U.S., and only the second woman to hold that post in the NRA's 132-year history. "And I haven't met a gun yet that I didn't like," she says. Jewish, soccer-(grand)momish, and a West Coast lawyer now living in Tucson, Ariz., the 57-year-old Froman is is as unstereotypical as it comes when looking for the stereotypical perception of the gun crowd. And this is not lost on the woman herself. In Toronto over the weekend to address the national convention of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA), Froman said being a victim of crime was the prime motivator for her buying her first gun. "It's weird how life goes," she says. "If what happened to me had not have happened, I would not be here. "But it was a life-changing experience, and I would not be president of the NRA if not for that." It was an attempted break-in of her Los Angeles apartment when she was in her 30s, and living alone, that prompted Froman to go out the next day and sign up for firearms training. "I never wanted to be in a position in life where I had no options," she says. "And I had no options that day. There was a man attempting to break into my apartment and I had no backup -- no means to defend myself, no way out. "And it changed my life." Educated at Stanford University, with her law degree coming from Harvard, Froman was practising law at the high-profile California law firm of Loeb & Loeb when she had her late-night visitation, a chance brush with lawlessness that led her, eventually, to executive positions within the NRA. Remember Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, and his ambush interview with a feeble Charlton Heston? "Despicable" is how Froman described Moore's actions, leaving no doubt that Moore would be unwise to come knocking on her door with the same modus operandi. Last January, having invoked the fear factor that half the guns used to bathe Toronto in blood in 2005 were stolen from law-abiding collectors and shooters, Prime Minister Paul Martin went to the polls vowing to ban all handguns in Canada -- if constitutionally viable, that is, a caveat he later had to add when he misfired on the facts. Toronto Mayor David Miller sang the same statistical tune, despite contrary evidence in a report tabled a month earlier by his own police service -- a report obtained through access to information that shows, if not twisted, that no more than 16% of "crime guns" in Toronto were obtained through the robbery of legitimate owners. Sandy Froman, however, would not go there. The United States, not Canada, she said, is her political bailiwick. "Canadians have a different mindset. We have different histories," she says. "We (Americans) are self-reliant. Independence is part of our culture. Call it frontier-ism, if you want, but we are people who want less government interference in our lives, and we believe in the Second Amendment, and our right to protect ourselves." According to Froman, some 80 million of the 300-plus million living in the United States own firearms. "Gun ownership has increased 25% in the last years," she says. "And violent crime has decreased by 33%. "Tell me there is no connection?" There was no press invited to the Canadian Shooting Sport Association's dinner Saturday, yet some did show up nonetheless, with the Toronto Star apparently sporting a bogus "invitation" allegedly sent out by kindred-spirited, anti-gun lobbyist Wendy Cukier, a Ryerson professor and president of the Canadian Coalition for Gun Control. It was left up to Tony Bernardo, executive-director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association to let the reporter know that he had been somewhat had -- particularly since the reporter arrived thinking Cukier was his contact person. This, in fact, was confirmed by the reporter himself. "Cukier's name was atop the invite," says Bernardo. "And the reporter was certainly not happy about being asked to leave. But he has only one person to thank, and that's the person who sent out the phony invitation." According to Cukier, however, the so-called "invitation" was actually a "press release" -- one, she admitted, that "might have caused some confusion" if it came down third-hand from an assignment editor to a reporter. "I spoke to the Star," she says. "And they understand." GOT IN A SHOT According to Cukier, an address by the president of the NRA to a group of Canadian shooting sport enthusiasts is "something Canadians should know about." "Which is why I put out a press release," she says. One wonders, however, what Cukier had envisioned being so newsworthy that it required a media blitz. For what follows is probably the most controversial thing Sandy Froman had to say her keynote speech. "Though you don't have a Second Amendment in Canada, it is amazing how similar things are in your country and in mine when it comes to gun ownership and the fight to preserve it," she said. "You fight the same battles against the same enemies of firearms freedom that we do. You labour under the same lack of education among the general public about firearms issues. "And you deal with the same bias in your media." In that same speech, however, Froman did manage to get in a fairly good shot at Wendy Cukier. It might be wise, in fact, if she obtained a copy. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Shooting Back: The Right and Duty of Self Defenseby Nancy |
SAF Lawsuit Defends Rights of Citizens Living Abroad, Challenges ‘Sporting Purpose’by NancySAF Lawsuit Defends Rights of Citizens Living Abroad, Challenges ‘Sporting Purpose’ Restriction Date: Nov 29, 2006 2:41 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS RELEASE SAF LAWSUIT DEFENDS RIGHTS OF CITIZENS LIVING ABROAD, CHALLENGES ‘SPORTING PURPOSE’ RESTRICTION BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today filed a lawsuit in federal court in Ohio, challenging the “sporting purpose” limitation for firearms sales in this country, and supporting the constitutional right of American citizens living abroad to legally purchase firearms while in this country. SAF and co-plaintiff Stephen Dearth of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, a native citizen of the United States, are represented by the law firms of Gura & Possessky (Virginia) and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (Ohio). SAF founder Alan M. Gottlieb said “there is no ‘sporting purpose’ limitation on the right to keep and bear arms in the language of the Second Amendment.” “American citizens should not be penalized for living outside the United States, but under current statute, they are,” Gottlieb explained. “There is no public safety rationale for laws or regulations that prohibit a law-abiding citizen from exercising their rights on American soil. We cannot allow a legal environment to exist where the exercise of a civil right here at home is conditional to one’s country of residence. “If Americans can have firearms for hunting, they can also have a gun for self-defense, for pest control, for training purposes, for any number of reasons, or for no reason at all, because the Second Amendment is not about duck hunting or target shooting, and never has been,” he continued. “It’s not a ‘Bill of Needs’ we’re talking about, it’s a Bill of Rights. “And those constitutional rights, guaranteed by birth right to every American citizen, do not become null and void simply because an individual lives in another country,” Gottlieb said. “When a law-abiding American citizen comes home for a visit, he or she should be able to exercise their rights, including the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, anywhere in the United States no matter where they happen to live. “We’re bringing this case to the courts,” Gottlieb concluded, “because we believe the rights of American citizens, no matter where they reside, are worth defending.” "We will continue to defend the rights of Americans against pointless governmental interference. These laws serve no useful purpose. Mr. Dearth cannot be denied his constitutional rights while inside the United States, merely because his home happens to be across the border," added Alan Gura, the lead attorney representing the plaintiffs. -END- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < Please e-mail, distribute, and circulate to friends and family > The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Vermont Looses a gun dealer/friendby NancyVermont Looses a gun dealer/friend Date: Nov 24, 2006 7:07 PM Bill Gilderdale had an extensive inventory of older firearms, particularly Winchester rifles. For decades he has been a source of information and insight for our folks. Evan.. Many people knew Bill. Can you pass this on. Bill Gilderdale passed away. Bill was well known in Vermont and New England as a fair gun dealer who loved his Winchesters. Bill had a barn in Stockbridge on RT100 with a sign "GUNS". That is all he needed. Anyone visiting Bill would quickly learn what was on his mind, what he thought of politics and if you said something stupid, what he thought of you. I was very fortunate in knowing Bill and becoming his friend. Even as another gun dealer, I was welcomed into his place with open arms. He sent many customers to my place as I did his. I would love to know what Bill forgot in the last year about Winchesters and life in general. He will be missed. Henry Parro William O. "Bill" Gilderdale November 22, 2006 STOCKBRIDGE – William O. "Bill" Gilderdale, 87, of Stockbridge, died Monday evening, Nov. 20, 2006, at Gifford Medical Center in Randolph. He was born Sept. 25, 1919, in Colrain, Mass., the son of Frederic T. and Henrietta (Osgood) Gilderdale. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was stationed in Burma. He had worked as a timber buyer for Northeast Wood Products in Pownal and then for True Temper Construction in Wallingford. He was an outdoorsman and hunter and was most noted for his love of guns, especially antique firearms. He owned and operated Bill's Guns in Stockbridge for many years, the last few with the help of his grandson. He was known far and wide with many friends in and out of the gun trade. He is survived by two sons, David Gilderdale of East Randolph and Alan Gilderdale of Colrain, Mass.; his daughter, Judy Fowler of Halifax; his sister, Barbara N. Gilderdale of New Canaan, Conn.; seven grandchildren; three great-grandsons; and many nieces, nephews and cousins. He was predeceased by his sister, Helen Fredericka Gilderdale. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 25, 2006, at the Day Funeral Home in Randolph with Rev. Ronald E. Rilling officiating. Burial will be at a later date at North River Cemetery in Colrain, Mass. Calling hours are from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Contributions in his memory may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 77 Hegeman Ave., Colchester, VT 05446. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Column: "Liberty-encroaching yet entirely useless national firearms registry"by NancyColumn: "Liberty-encroaching yet entirely useless national firearms registry" Date: Nov 25, 2006 10:00 AM PUBLICATION: GLOBE AND MAIL DATE: 2006.11.25 PAGE: A27 (ILLUS) BYLINE: CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD SECTION: Comment Column EDITION: Metro WORD COUNT: 1014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- My nation is . . . Toronto Stow the envy, rest-of-Canada dwellers. 'We are a nation because we are what we are' here in Hogtown ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- I cannot tell you how conflicted I was by the "Quebec is a nation" business that broke out all over this week: as a federalist, delighted; as a Torontonian, amused. To borrow from the deliciously outfoxed and caught flatfooted Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe, who said, "We are a nation because we are what we are," we here in Toronto are also a nation and for the same reason. As a native Quebecker, I know well how unique is that province, but if I had to name one place in the country that has almost nothing in common with the rest of it, it wouldn't be Quebec, but the city where I've lived for almost four decades. In recent years, it's become so bad I've seriously considered separating myself from Toronto, the friends and routines of an adult lifetime, the house and neighbourhood I love. I give you a small but telling true story. I was in Edmonton last week and so, it turned out, was a Toronto couple I adore. They were visiting relatives who live about an hour out of the Alberta capital, and we chatted briefly on e-mail, unsuccessfully trying to arrange our various schedules in order to meet for dinner one night. At one point, the husband was trilling on about how beautiful the relatives' property was, and how peaceful, and blah, blah, blah. Why, he cooed, from a window that very day, they'd spotted a deer. "You should have shot it," I snarled, though I confess I have not yet found an e-mail icon to properly signify a snarl. I actually knew, from an Alberta friend, that it is, or was, deer hunting season. Indeed, because of this friend, who regales me with lurid descriptions of the shots he could have taken but didn't and the hours he spends lying in various frigid places waiting not to shoot, and the array of clothes and gewgaws he takes with him to while away the wait until he doesn't shoot, I may well know more about Alberta deer season than any other single person in Toronto. Anyway, as I recall, there was shocked e-mail silence from my Toronto friend. I don't think I ever got a reply. He probably thought I had mislaid my mind or that I had misspoken, which is what we here say when we accidentally have told a truth or said what we believe but had no intention of saying and been called on it. After all, I had broken about a dozen Toronto conventions in one fell swoop: Thou shalt not speak of guns; thou shalt not speak of guns but to condemn; thou shalt not suggest, by word or deed or inflection or lift of brow, that there are good gun owners and bad ones; thou shalt not speak in any manner approaching approbation about hunting (for one thing, it may lead to meat eating), and thou shall always and at every turn defend the liberty-encroaching yet entirely useless national firearms registry while simultaneously attacking the liberty-encroaching but undeniably useful notion of imposing reverse-onus bail conditions upon those thugs caught actually using guns in the commission of an actual crime. Now I didn't really want my friend to shoot the deer because, though I am a bad Torontonian, like any good one, I still see all deer as Bambi, much as I see all collies as Lassie and all horses as Black Beauty and all pigs as Miss Piggy and all cows as the long-lashed ones in the milk ads. We prefer our animals, domestic or wild, to be cartoons with cute voices, which is why so many of us want our dogs to be no bigger than a beaver's tail. But the point is, Torontonians may not really think like this, but certainly, to judge it by what we say and certainly by how we vote, we do. The odds of the average citizen in this city being shot by a law-abiding, registered-up-the-ying-yang, taxpaying, gun-club-using fellow are next to nothing, but we here live in fear of that guy. Him, we want banned, or his guns anyway. And his pal the hunter. We have no patience for any of his nonsense about shooting being a sport (what, biathlon?) or for any of the hunter's BS or the varmint-shooting farmer's. But give us a dude with a criminal record longer than (see earlier reference to dog size), a habit of not showing up for court and a well-documented taste for violence, and honey, we will turn ourselves inside-out in search of root causes. I didn't mean for this to be so much about guns, but this is one of those issues that really captures so much that makes Toronto so breathtakingly irritating and, well, distinct. There are others, but chiefly what distinguishes the Torontonian is that from the sanctity of his SUV-loving life, he desires to tell other Canadians how we all ought to live. A few weeks ago, I was walking through the University of Toronto campus with my dog, both of us minding our business. Obie was, of course, on his leash, just trotting by my side. I had plastic bags in every pocket lest there be a hint of a dog turd within miles, and as we approached a young man, he smiled nicely. I am accustomed to people smiling at the sight of my dog (he is huge, white, goofy and with one floppy ear and one upright one) and smiled back. "Where's the muzzle?" the young man asked pleasantly. I presumed he had mistaken Obie for a pit bull and was referring to the Ontario ban on these dogs. "Oh," I said, still polite, "his breed is exempt from the law." "It's not a matter of law," he said. "What is it a matter of then?" I asked. He held his hands about a beaver-tail length apart. "I have a dog about this size," he said sorrowfully, shaking his head in what I suppose I was to take for rueful wisdom. "My dog plays with dogs that size every day," I said. "He's as gentle as a lamb." "Well," smarmed the young man, "I'm glad to hear it." "I need neither your lectures nor your praise," I replied, rather regally I thought, and took my leave. But as he was to me, Toronto is to the nation. We are what we are, and what the rest of you, if only you were a little brighter, would want to be. cblatchford@globeandmail.ca The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
BENEFITS OF FIREARM OWNERSHIP - SELF-DEFENCEby Nancy :)BENEFITS OF FIREARM OWNERSHIP - SELF-DEFENCE Date: Nov 25, 2006 11:31 AM August 22, 2006 - LIBRARY OF PARLIAMENT: SOCIETAL BENEFITS OF FIREARM OWNERSHIP - SELF-DEFENCE http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/2006/820.doc Le 22 août 2006 - BIBLIOTHÈQUE DU PARLEMENT - AVANTAGES SOCIÉTAUX DÉCOULANT DE LA POSSESSION D'ARMES À FEU - LA LÉGITIME DÉFENSE http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/2006_new/84.doc August 17, 2006 - LIBRARY OF PARLIAMENT: THE BENEFITS OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP - HUNTING AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/2006/821.doc Le 17 août 2006 - BIBLIOTHÈQUE DU PARLEMENT - LES AVANTAGES LIÉS À LA PROPRIÉTÉ D'ARMES À FEU - GESTION DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/2006_new/83.doc April 2, 2004 - LIBRARY OF PARLIAMENT REPORT: THE BENEFITS OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/Librarystudy-april2-2004.doc Le 2 avril 2004 - BIBLIOTHÈQUE DU PARLEMENT -LES AVANTAGES DE LA POSSESSION D'ARMES À FEU http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/2006_new/85.doc The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Canadians' Use of Crime Prevention Measures, 2004by Nancy :)Canadians' Use of Crime Prevention Measures, 2004 Date: Nov 25, 2006 9:23 AM STATISTICS CANADA - Canadians' Use of Crime Prevention Measures, 2004 By Maire Gannon and Andrea Taylor-Butts, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics http://www.statcan.ca/english/research/85F0033MIE/85F0033MIE2006012.pdf The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
What you won't read in The NY Timesby nancyWhat you won't read in The NY Times Date: Nov 24, 2006 7:22 PM http://www.ohioccw.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3763&Itemid=83 Lumpy Lambert's Armed Citizen Story Written by Mike Kinsey Wednesday, 22 November 2006 Those that do not regularly listen to the excellent programs that air on NRANews.com or keep their radar tuned to self-defense stories are probably not aware of what recently happened to Lumpy Lambert. That is because armed citizen accounts rarely make it to print. When they do, the vast majority of them report that, "Mrs. Smith is lucky to be alive" rather than "Mrs. Smith used her legal firearm for self-defense. If she hadn't, she would now be dead." Official FBI statistics predict that a firearm is used 1.5 million times a year in self-defense. Do you hear about all of those in the news? I certainly do not. That is what makes this story a bit of an anomaly. It comes to us from Knoxville, Tennessee and actually made its way to a few other papers around the country. However, it certainly didn't get the widespread coverage it deserves. Here is what happened: A Knox County Commissioner, Greg "Lumpy" Lambert was working at his car dealership when a 19-year-old man entered and wanted a test drive. After it was over, the customer said he's ready to buy and had $12,000 in cash for the purchase. Lumpy asked for the customer's driver's license and started the paperwork. The customer then went outside to have a cigarette. Lumpy said he was always suspicious as he didn't see any bulges in the guy's pants that would indicate he had such a large sum of cash with him. Also, he never tried to negotiate a better price. The customer came back in, continued acting suspicious, and began to draw a handgun. Lumpy, who trains with his legal firearm, was quicker and drew his first. From this story on WBIR.com: "He [the robber] said he didn't want any trouble, that he just wanted to leave. I said he was not going to leave with his gun. This man is obviously pulling a gun on people, he's not, the rest of society out there was not safe as long as he was carrying this weapon. So I made him drop his weapon. And told him to get out of there and prepare to be arrested that our good sheriff's department would catch up with him, which they did about 12 hours later," said Lambert. I believe that the reason why this was originally reported was because it was painted as an amusing human interest story. The media kept making fun of the robber since he previously gave Lumpy his driver's license (allowing the cops to apprehend him). Plus, Lumpy was wearing a "Friends of the NRA" hat at the time. Finally, the good guy's nickname is Lumpy and he's from Tennessee. All of the accounts made sure to mention those facts and have a good chuckle about the moronic robber rather than focusing on Lumpy's heroics. That's fine. Whatever gets the word out. However, this story became a lot more serious yesterday: The man who pulled a gun on a Knox County commissioner is charged with murder. Late Tuesday afternoon, a grand jury indicted 19 year-old Kane Stackhouse with the murder of 53 year-old David Lindsey. http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_5161520,00.html >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> KnoxNews URL: http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_5161520,00.html Teenager indicted in slaying Powell youth faces first-degree murder charge in shooting By J.J. STAMBAUGH, stambaugh@knews.com November 22, 2006 A Powell teenager was indicted Tuesday on murder charges in the Nov. 11 slaying of a truck driver in a drugstore parking lot, Knox County Sheriff Tim Hutchison said. Kane Stackhouse, 19, was indicted by a grand jury on charges of first-degree murder, felony murder and especially aggravated robbery, Hutchison said. The robbery charge stems from an incident that took place about 10 hours after David Lindsey, 53, was found dying from two gunshot wounds in the parking lot of the Walgreens at 5320 Clinton Highway, Hutchison said. In the second incident, Stackhouse is alleged to have tried to rob Knox County Commissioner Greg "Lumpy" Lambert at Lambert's auto dealership, Advantage Auto Sales, which is about a half mile from the drugstore, Hutchison said. When Stackhouse allegedly pulled a gun on Lambert, the commissioner pulled his own pistol on the would-be robber and disarmed him, according to Lambert's account. Stackhouse then fled on foot, leaving behind a .25-caliber pistol and his driver's license. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
GARY MAUSER: "...incapacitation is the most powerful tool we have to reduce the crime rateby NancyGARY MAUSER: "...incapacitation is the most powerful tool we have to reduce the crime rate." Date: Nov 24, 2006 11:51 AM PUBLICATION: Times Colonist (Victoria) DATE: 2006.11.24 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A5 BYLINE: David Carrigg SOURCE: CanWest News Service DATELINE: VANCOUVER ILLUSTRATION: Photo: Wally Oppal: "It's a good idea" WORD COUNT: 449 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- B.C. attorney general backs feds' gun-crime crackdown ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- VANCOUVER -- Attorney General Wally Oppal yesterday backed a federal government plan to make it tougher for people accused of gun crimes to get out on bail. "I think it's a good idea to put more of the onus on those people charged with serious crimes involving firearms," Oppal said last night. "That's what this deals with." Current Canadian law puts the onus on the Crown to convince a judge that someone charged with a gun crime should be kept in custody until trial. Prime Minister Stephen Harper yesterday introduced legislation in the House of Commons that will instead require those charged with a serious gun crime to argue why they should not stay in custody until their trial. Under the proposed reverse-onus legislation, it would be tougher for people like 29-year-old Dennis White of Vancouver to get out on bail. White is charged with shooting to death 23-year-old Lee Matasi in downtown Vancouver last December. White was released on bail into the care of his mother, despite protests from the Crown and outrage from Matasi's family. White's second-degree murder trial begins next year. "Where a person is charged with robbery using a firearm, then the onus ought to be [for them] to show that they should be released," Oppal said. "This would be applicable in a case like [White]." Oppal, who said he discussed the reverse-onus legislation with Harper three weeks ago, said it is rare for a judge to release a person on bail who is accused of murder, as was the case with White. Simon Fraser University criminologist Gary Mauser said many violent crimes are committed by people who have been released after committing an earlier violent crime. "There's one thing that we know from looking at crime records and that is that incapacitation is the most powerful tool we have to reduce the crime rate," Mauser said. "That's keeping people in jail for a longer period of time, in this case holding them until they are judged." Vancouver police spokesman Const. Tim Fanning applauded the proposal. "We get frustrated when we deal with people involved in crimes where they use a gun, and they're back on the street quickly and they get another gun. Trying to get guns off the street and people who carry guns off the street is a good start." Harper, meanwhile, said he doesn't believe a blanket ban on handguns is the answer. "Simply banning guns we don't think would be effective," he said. "What we do need to do is stop the smuggling of illegal weapons." Earlier yesterday, Harper's plan earned the endorsement of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Toronto Mayor David Miller. "Gun crime is a menace to public safety and protecting Canadians must be the first priority of the bail system," Harper said at a Toronto press conference. Harper added he was confident the legislation would withstand a challenge under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. "Our belief is this is demonstrably justifiable and necessary for public safety and for the public to retain confidence in the criminal justice system," the prime minister said. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Canadians don't buy guns when threatenedby NancyCanadians don't buy guns when threatened Date: Nov 24, 2006 11:33 AM PUBLICATION: The Windsor Star DATE: 2006.11.24 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A11 SOURCE: CanWest News Service DATELINE: OTTAWA WORD COUNT: 243 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- We'd rather step away from a fight: Canadians don't buy guns when threatened ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- OTTAWA - Canadians are more likely to change their daily routines or avoid certain places to protect themselves from crime rather than buy a gun or moving, says a new report. More than three-quarters of Canadians regularly used some means to protect themselves and their property from crime in 2004, says a Statistics Canada study released Thursday. But only one per cent of study participants said they bought a gun as a precautionary measure. About five per cent said they changed their phone number, while four per cent moved into a new residence. The findings are similar to a 1999 study on victimization, according to Statistics Canada. About one in 10 people said they stayed home at night because they feared going out alone. Canadians are much more likely to insert preventive measures in their daily routines, according to the report. For instance, six in 10 Canadians said they locked their car doors while alone in a vehicle. Four in 10 said they kept safety in mind when planning their route, or checked the backseat to make sure no one was there when they were getting into their car. "The preventative measures that they do use tend to be those that involve modifying their behaviour and their activities as opposed to more extreme measures," said Andrea Taylor-Butts, analyst at the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics at Statistics Canada. People who used more extreme crime prevention measures were more likely to have been a victim of crime in the previous year. More than half of study respondents who were also victims of crime said they changed their routines to prevent victimization. But only 29 per cent of people who hadn't been victims of crime reported the same. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Stephen Harper cites a London shooting case in touting Ottawa's 'reverse onus' legislationby NancyStephen Harper cites a London shooting case in touting Ottawa's 'reverse onus' legislation. Date: Nov 24, 2006 10:55 AM PUBLICATION: The London Free Press DATE: 2006.11.24 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A1 ILLUSTRATION: 1. photo of AHMED MOALIN-MOHAMED Accused in London shootings and nowhere to be found. 2. photo by CP NON-PARTISAN MOMENT: Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty listen as Toronto Mayor David Miller speaks at a news conference in Toronto. BYLINE: FREE PRESS STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES WORD COUNT: 491 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- PM points to local fugitive Stephen Harper cites a London shooting case in touting Ottawa's 'reverse onus' legislation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- He skipped bail after being charged in a multiple Thanksgiving shooting in London that injured four people and hasn't been seen or heard since. But yesterday, fugitive Ahmed Moalin-Mohamed was thrust under the spotlight, his case cited by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as an example of the need to get tough on people accused of gun crimes. Moalin-Mohamed, 23, was released on bail by a justice of the peace and ordered to stay with his mother in Toronto until his case could be heard. Instead, Harper noted, the defendant "simply vanished." "That means somewhere in Canada -- maybe in London, maybe in this city -- a man facing multiple violent firearms charges is freely roaming the streets and it's hardly an isolated case," Harper said in Toronto. Appearing in a rare non-partisan moment with Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty and David Miller, Toronto's left-leaning mayor, Harper was setting his sights on Ontario voters as he showcased Ottawa's get-tough vow to crack down on gun crime. If there was any doubt Harper is laying the groundwork for a coming election after he tabled a motion Wednesday to recognize Quebec as a nation within Canada, it vanished when he took the stage with the other two political leaders who represent millions of Ontario voters -- voters the minority Conservative government is keen to win over before they return to the federal polls. Harper plugged the government's new "reverse onus" legislation, introduced in the House of Commons yesterday, which would require people accused of dangerous gun crimes -- like Moalin-Mohamed -- to demonstrate to a court why they should be freed on bail until their trial. As the law now stands, those accused of attempted murder, armed robbery, sexual assault with a weapon, kidnapping or extortion are granted bail, unless a prosecutor can persuade a court to detain them. Harper recounted the case of Moalin-Mohamed, who made bail after the Oct. 8 shootings in a parking lot along Richmond and Carling streets, but then failed to show up for his next court appearance. A bench warrant was issued for his arrest. Moalin-Mohamed faces 13 charges, including attempted murder and three counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm. He was released despite concerns by the Crown. His release also drew criticism from London police Chief Murray Faulkner. "Rejecting the Crown's argument that the man was a threat to public safety, the (justice of the peace), acting under the current law, ordered him to stay home with his mother," Harper said. Harper, referring to the three leaders at yesterday's news conference, said, "We pretty much cover the political spectrum, but today we are partisans for the same cause." He also brought up the Boxing Day shooting of 15-year-old Jane Creba, who was caught in the crossfire during a shootout on Yonge Street. The case became a central focus of last year's federal election campaign and was viewed by many as a boon to the election hopes of the law-and-order Tories. "Ever since the Yonge Street shootout that killed 15-year-old Jane Creba last Boxing Day, the premier and the mayor have been pressing Ottawa for these reforms," Harper said. McGuinty was effusive in his praise for the legislation and for the leadership he said Harper has shown on the gun-crime file. "This initiative, together with other initiatives already brought forward by Prime Minister Harper's government, are important to the people of Ontario." The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Skipping bail in Canada is simply too easyby NancySkipping bail in Canada is simply too easy Date: Nov 24, 2006 10:57 AM PUBLICATION: The Toronto Sun DATE: 2006.11.24 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: 5 ILLUSTRATION: photo of AHMED MOALIN-MOHAMED Skipped hearing BYLINE: JOE WARMINGTON WORD COUNT: 593 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Skipping bail in Canada is simply too easy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Anybody see Ahmed Moalin-Mohamed around? Head for cover if you do. And then call police. "He may be in London, he may be in this city," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said yesterday. He may be anywhere because he didn't show up for his latest court hearing to determine if he should be on bail. Oh, don't worry. He's only on the lam after being charged with attempted murder, criminal negligence causing bodily harm and 10 other charges in the Thanksgiving shooting of four people in London, Ont. "He was ordered to stay at home with his mother," Harper said sarcastically. "He promptly vanished." Seems his mom, who lives in Toronto, wasn't able to detain him -- despite being asked to by the court while he awaited the next court date. Maybe mom's cooking wasn't as good as it used to be or he didn't want to make his bed. You hardly need reforms to deal with this kind of stupidity. But reforms are what Harper, Premier Dalton McGuinty and Mayor David Miller were talking about yesterday. It's actually a bail reform package that Harper's government will table before Parliament -- essentially making those on bail for serious charges go though a reverse onus process. In other words, rather than have the Crown say why the suspect should stay in jail awaiting trial, the accused will have to show why he should be out of jail. "As you know, cracking down on gang, gun and drug crime has been one of the top priorities of Canada's new government," said Harper. "We made it a priority because Canadians had made it very clear to us that they wanted the scales of justice rebalanced." 'ALMOST 1,000 CRIMES' He also stated: "In this city, police report that almost 1,000 crimes involving firearms or restricted weapons have been committed so far this year ...nearly 40% of them were committed by someone who was on bail, parole, temporary absence or probation. Gun crime is a menace to public safety, and protecting Canadians must be the first priority of our bail system." The three leaders stood up there in unison. "Between the three of us we pretty much cover the political spectrum," said Harper. But they all agree on this. "We close ranks," said McGuinty on crime against citizens. "More arrests and more guns off the streets make it a safer city," said Miller, adding he's glad to see the PM say, "yes, to Toronto." You have to give these men credit. They are the good guys, on our side, and are trying to deal with a very difficult problem. The ideas revealed at this news conference are okay. The measures that have been employed in Toronto this year by Chief Bill Blair have been effective in getting the numbers down and they have to be encouraged to keep crushing the criminal gangs. But even though I support these leaders working together, there is still such political posturing to it all. After an hour of patting each other on the back, they still hadn't mentioned there had been three shootings here in the last 48 hours. One was at Yonge and Shuter -- right near where Jane Creba was slain Dec. 26. One was up on the 401 in which police officers were shot at and one on King W. in the Entertainment District where a man was shot in the leg. No funerals necessary. This time. The part that amazes me is how people don't help police out. "The victim (in the Entertainment District) was not exactly co-operative," said a frustrated 14 Division Staff Sgt. Steve French. "If anybody has information, please call Crime Stoppers." And, please, don't tell me somebody out there doesn't know where Moalin-Mohamed is. The fact that people harbour fugitives like this gives a good indication of where this crime problem is really at. It says people are more afraid of the gangs than they are of the law. Or they don't feel any moral responsibility to the rest of us. This week's incidents show how free and unafraid these people feel. They are carrying guns all the time. You have to be careful because you don't know who has one. If there is one rat you do spot, there's 100 you didn't. You are probably never more than a few metres from a gun. Maybe that's Moalin-Mohamed sitting next to you right now. If it is, call 911 and get out of there -- not necessarily in that order. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Germany Reevaluates Gun Laws After School Shootingby Nancyhttp://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2245918,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdfDE The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
"Simply banning guns we don't think would be effective," Harper said.by Nancy"Simply banning guns we don't think would be effective," Harper said. Date: Nov 24, 2006 7:03 AM PUBLICATION: The Toronto Star DATE: 2006.11.24 EDITION: MET SECTION: GTA PAGE: E01 BYLINE: Jim Byers SOURCE: Toronto Star WORD COUNT: 788 ILLUSTRATION: Mayor David Miller, flanked byPrime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Dalton McGuinty, addresses a press conference yesterday. Rene Johnston toronto star ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Leaders gather in rare accord ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Partway through a rare press conference attended by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Premier Dalton McGuinty and Mayor David Miller, Harper said Criminal Code changes designed to crack down on gun violence aren't going to solve Canada's crime problems but they're a solid start. The same might be said for the fact that the three men simply stood together and kept their rhetorical weapons in their holsters. The three leaders have been wrapped in a nasty fight during the past few weeks over everything from fiscal imbalances to failed World's Fair bids. But Toronto politicians say the fact they were able to put aside their differences for a major anti-crime move that Miller and McGuinty had been pushing for is a positive sign. "It's good to have the Prime Minister say 'Yes' to Toronto," Miller said. "It's a start, and it's a good start." "I'm very pleased that all three levels of government were able to agree on this," said Toronto Councillor Karen Stintz (Ward 16, Eglinton-Lawrence), one of several right-wing council members invited to yesterday's press conference by the federal Tory government. "It's good to see some agreement, and now we need to see similar co-operation on transportation and other issues" important to the city. "Between the three of us we pretty much cover the political spectrum," Harper said with a smile. "But today we are partisans for the same cause; reclaiming safe streets and safe communities for all Canadians." Miller said it was the first time he could remember sharing a stage with McGuinty and Harper. The three men talked about a variety of subjects prior to the press conference but Miller said it wasn't the time to bring up outstanding grievances. All three leaders took turns complimenting one another during the briefing and collectively urged all federal parties to back the new legislation. Bill C-10, the legislation introduced in Ottawa yesterday, provides what's called a "reverse onus" in bail hearings for offences that involve firearms. "This bail reform package will apply to people when they stand accused of serious crimes involving firearms," said Harper. "As the law stands, anyone accused of ... heinous acts is granted bail and allowed to roam the streets unless a prosecutor can persuade a judge to hold them in jail. This is unacceptable. Our legislation will reverse the onus, so that people charged with serious gun crimes will have to demonstrate to the courts why they should not stay in custody until their trial." Harper said there have been nearly 1,000 crimes involving firearms or restricted weapons this year in Toronto and that almost 40 per cent were allegedly committed by someone on bail, parole, temporary absence or probation. Toronto police told the Star that 70 per cent of people charged in a homicide this year were under a court order at the time of the slaying and that 29 of this year's homicide victims were allegedly killed by someone already on bail, probation or under a court order not to possess firearms at the time of the slaying. McGuinty called the new measures "tough and responsible" and said the message is clear - "when you pick up a gun and commit a crime, you lose your right to be free." Miller said he hopes the legislation will encourage witnesses to gun crimes to talk to police and be comfortable knowing that criminals will remain behind bars and not out on bail. "As we have seen in Toronto over the past 48 hours, we have to be relentless in our efforts against guns," Miller said, referring to a pair of shooting incidents in the city. "Guns serve one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to kill," said the mayor, who was re-elected in a landslide last week. "They give cowardly criminals the capacity to become killers with minimal thought and far too much ease, and far too often those killed or injured weren't even the target, like Chantel Dunn, Jane Creba and Louise Russo." Despite the kissy-kissy behaviour, there were some obvious differences on display at yesterday's briefing. Both Miller and McGuinty sounded another call for a ban on handguns, something the Prime Minister rejected. "Simply banning guns we don't think would be effective," Harper said. "What we do need to do is stop the smuggling of illegal weapons." Near the end of the press conference, Harper - no doubt conscious of the need to shore up support in Ontario and Quebec before the impending election - also made a point of saying that changes are needed to Canada's criminal justice system to end "decades of neglect," a clear shot at the long-reigning Liberals. Still, yesterday was mostly a time to dial down the rhetoric and demonstrate a rare degree of co-operation among leaders of Canada, its largest province and its biggest city. Now all they have to do is make it last. with files from Tracy Huffman and canadian press The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
TORONTO: Of the 46 accused murderers, 32 (70%) were on bail, probation or subject to a couby Nancythis is NOT crime control.................. murderers should be in jail or worse......NOT walking the streets! TORONTO: Of the 46 accused murderers, 32 (70%) were on bail, probation or subject to a court order Date: Nov 24, 2006 7:13 AM PUBLICATION: GLOBE AND MAIL DATE: 2006.11.24 PAGE: A18 (ILLUS) BYLINE: JENNIFER LEWINGTON AND TIMOTHY APPLEBY SECTION: Toronto News EDITION: Metro WORD COUNT: 877 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Harper touts tougher bail rules 'Reverse-onus' legislation will help control gun violence, Miller and McGuinty say ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- With the Premier of Ontario and the mayor of Canada's biggest city strongly at his side yesterday in Toronto, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced new federal legislation to toughen bail conditions for gun-related crimes. Under the proposed legislation, introduced yesterday in the House of Commons, those charged with gun crimes will have to show why they should not stay in custody until a trial -- a "reverse onus" provision that Premier Dalton McGuinty and Mayor David Miller have urged for months. Unless an accused is already charged with an indictable offence, current rules require prosecutors to show why the person charged with a gun offence should not be released on bail. "Today, we are partisans for the same cause -- reclaiming safe streets and safe communities for all Canadians," Mr. Harper said. "They want the scales of justice rebalanced." The Prime Minister's announcement, his first with the Premier and the mayor since he was elected in January, was made on the heels of three shooting incidents in Toronto this week. Meanwhile, the Toronto Police Service reports that 70 per cent of those arrested on homicide charges this year (32 of 46 people) were either on bail or probation or under court-ordered prohibitions at the time of the crime. The Prime Minister's pledge of legislation, telegraphed in August by Justice Minister Vic Toews, is not the first move to create reverse-onus provisions in the Criminal Code. For that reason, Mr. Harper says he is confident the proposal can withstand a constitutional challenge from people who fear a loss of rights for those accused of a crime. "I believe we are standing on strong ground," he said. "It's essential for public safety." Under existing law, people accused of organized-crime offences, terrorism and drug trafficking must explain to bail courts why they should be freed while awaiting trial. The issue of gun crimes has moved to the front burner in many cities, including Toronto, where 52 of last year's 78 homicides were committed with firearms. Both Mr. Miller and Mr. McGuinty praised the Prime Minister for the legislation and urged all federal parties to endorse it. "When it comes to anything that threatens our families and the safety of our communities, that is an issue that transcends partisan politics," the Premier said. Mr. Miller said the tougher approach on bail is necessary because "guns are different than anything else. . . . They give cowardly criminals the cap to become killers with minimal thought and far too much ease." Law enforcement officials also endorsed the proposal. "We have seen an extremely disturbing and increasing trend in the last several years with people we wind up arresting for murder are on bail for previous serious criminal offences -- assaults, sexual assaults, previous shootings, attempted murder et cetera -- who continue to commit these crimes," said Staff Inspector Brian Raybould, who heads the Toronto homicide squad. "These are people who are under firearms restrictions and other restrictions who are breaching them on a continuing basis." The news conference, which included a hand-picked audience of about 30 people who peppered the Prime Minister's speech with applause, was notable for the cordial tone among three politicians who have sparred publicly in recent months. Mr. McGuinty has made little headway in pressing the federal government to close the so-called fiscal gap he says Ontario is experiencing. Last week, despite handily winning a second term on a platform that recommended reverse-onus legislation, Mr. Miller was immediately rebuffed in his call for federal and provincial governments to share one cent of the 14 cents in sales tax revenue they collect from the city. Yesterday, the Premier and Mr. Miller sidestepped any direct criticism of the Prime Minister, who does not endorse the other two politicians' push for a ban on handguns. "I kind of like the Prime Minister saying yes to Toronto," said Mr. Miller, an apparent reference to the speedy no to his pitch for a share of tax revenues that grow with the economy. "We will keep finding ways to say yes together." For his part, Mr. Harper said: "Canadians want us to work together when we can. There is a lot we have in common in terms of dealing with the crime problem." Toronto Councillor Karen Stintz, sometimes a critic of the mayor, praised his warm words for the Prime Minister. "It is a positive step for the city of Toronto to build a solid relationship with other levels of government," she said. "I was pleased and very proud of the mayor." ***** Repeat offenders Bail, release on terms of varying strictness pending a further court appearance, is not the only court-ordered restriction that is violated when a subsequent offence is committed. Toronto has had 62 homicides this year. Of those, 41 have been cleared, with 46 people either arrested or sought on arrest warrants. In four of the 62 homicides, criminal proceedings ended because the accused committed suicide. Of the 46 accused, 32 -- or 70 per cent -- were either on bail, on probation or subject to some other court order. Fourteen were subject to multiple court orders. Among 32 people facing murder or manslaughter charges: * 14 were on bail at the time of the offence; * 13 were on probation; * 17 were subject to firearms-prohibition orders. Four are juveniles and 21 are aged 18 to 25. Toronto Police Homicide Squad The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
CONCEALED CARRY LAW GIVES BUSINESSES A BOOST . .by Nancy . . . Firearms retailers in Kansas are seeing increased business due to the state's five-month-old concealed-carry law, reports The Wichita Eagle. http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/16047821.htm Businesses have also been able to boost business by offering concealed-carry classes. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Another liberal holier than thou HYPOCRITE!!!!by NancyANTI-GUN MAYOR CONVICTED ON GUN CHARGES . . . Frank Melton, mayor of Jackson, Miss., and member of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" coalition, was convicted last week on two misdemeanor charges for carrying a weapon into a church and a park. In a third charge, reduced from what had previously been a felony count, the mayor pleaded no contest to carrying a gun on a university campus. Melton excused his criminal acts by stating, "I'm not another citizen. I am the mayor of Jackson." NSSF senior vice president and general counsel Lawrence G. Keane called upon Bloomberg to kick Melton out of his coalition. "Sadly, he's just another politician who believes he's above the law. If he had a shred of dignity he would resign." Melton will be allowed to stay in office. The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security ! |
Re: Another liberal holier than thou HYPOCRITE!!!!by Nancyhttp://www.11alive.com/news/usnews_article.aspx?storyid=87680 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mayor Frank Melton, who has taken a hard stand against the city's rising crime rate, pleaded guilty to weapons charges Wednesday in a deal with prosecutors that lets him stay in office and out of jail. The mayor stood and acknowledged the agreement more than 90 minutes after his trial on the charges was to start. A jury had already been seated. Melton, 57, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors for carrying a weapon into a church and a park, and no contest to a reduced charge on what had been a felony count involving a gun on a university campus. He was given a six-month suspended sentence on each count, plus one year probation, and was fined $1,500. (any other citizen would have been thrownin jail ! and had he been a Republican it would have been demanded that he resign ) The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !
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