Friday, February 2, 2007
The people that keep us safe
Great video.
BTW, when is the registry going to be killed, anyway, Mr. Harper?
via Dogsnot
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Bullets flying, blacks dying
Monday, March 7, 2005
Just useless
More proof the registry needs to be put to death.
One former Mountie called the registry “totally useless” because criminals don’t register their guns.
“They’ve wasted $2 billion on what should have gone to front-line policing,” said Dennis Young, parliamentary assistant to Saskatchewan Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz, a gun-registry critic.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Can’t be any dumber
Here’s an idea for the registry.
Perhaps, it is time to rejig the firearms registry as a dangerous offender registry and start registering the names of people who are not allowed to possess firearms, rather than listing the guns of people who scrupulously obey the laws. It certainly could not be any more useless than the current firearms registry and, in all likelihood, it will actually provide some benefit to the public safety.
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Pop pop pop
Guns and ammo everywhere this weekend - so how’s the registry helping in the investigations?
A weekend of gunfire and violence has left three people dead and five people being treated for their injuries in local hospitals.
Thought you didn’t have an answer. Ask the Liberal MP you voted in.
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Imagine the freedom
...of being able to defend your property and life.
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP)—When two men walked into a popular country store outside Atlanta, announced a holdup and fired a shot, owners Bobby Doster and Gloria Turner never hesitated. The pair pulled out their own pistols and opened fire.
In Canada, we can only imagine.
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Kill the registry
Boy, minority governments sure are interesting. This story would never have happened in the old majority days.
A group of Liberal backbenchers has the Martin minority government on tenterhooks over their plans to vote this week to scrap the controversial $1-billion gun registry.
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Register, or go to jail
Your OPP police force busy arresting disobedient civilians.
CUFOA executive officer and Dryden, Ontario, gunsmith Bruce Montague was arrested by the OPP this morning at 9 a.m. while attending a gun show in Dryden.
Child molestors get treated better ... the ones that get caught with the police officers not arresting non-compliant taxpaying protestors.
Saturday, August 28, 2004
Scrap it
Yet another call to scrap the useless registry.
THERE’S ONE more lesson to be learned from this week’s hostage-taking at Union Station, and it concerns the dismal failure of the federal gun registry.
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Good shot!
The Toronto Police Force is doing very good work lately.
A gunman was shot dead by a police sniper and his female hostage freed after a rush-hour standoff outside of Union Station on Front St. this morning.
The question all you Liberal voters need to ask, again, is, was the gunman’s gun registered?
Boy, capital punishment can be very efficient.
Friday, August 13, 2004
Could this happen in Canada?
A frightening story from Australia that could easily have happened in Canada.
The robber was wearing brass knuckles. Lifting Brown by the hair, he punched her repeatedly in the head and bashed her to the ground, fracturing her skull, an eye socket, her nose and left hand, and leaving her possibly brain damaged. Then the robber, a 25-year-old ex-con named William Aquilina, dragged Brown across the asphalt toward his stolen getaway car, dropping her like a rag doll when she finally released the deposit bag. Aquilina then got into the car. Blood pouring into her eyes, Brown somehow managed to stand up, remove her concealed handgun and take aim at the driver’s seat.
And yes, she shot Aquilina dead where he sat...This week Brown was charged with one count of murder.
Not surprisingly, most of the response to this column was from Americans. It’s hard to disagree with the benefits of citizens carrying concealed weapons.
Friday, July 23, 2004
Gun registry: a model
At least the registry is good for something.
:neale:Canada’s $1-billion gun registry is being used by a U.S. project-management centre for senior corporate executives as a case study in incompetence and financial mismanagement.
Thursday, June 3, 2004
Ask the experts
Killing the gun registry wins this voter over to the Conservatives.
“The gun registry is the worst thing I’ve ever seen,” he said. “The (federal Liberals) don’t understand how very, very big this issue is—but they will find out.”
Friday, February 13, 2004
Do I hear 3 billion
The giant flushing sound you hear from Ottawa could be your hard earned tax dollars flushing down the gun registry toilet. That is if you can hear it over the gunshots of Scarborough ripping into your house.
Canada’s controversial gun registry is costing taxpayers far more than previously reported, CBC News has learned.
I’ll give the CBC credit for digging the details up.
Sunday, February 8, 2004
Right to bear arms
I always like stories like this.
:neale:Woman opens fire on intruder
A man is wounded as she defends her home with two handguns.
The Sun has a whole spread on illegal guns - it’s time that Canadians had the same opportunity to defend themselves too. It would be far most effective than a gun registry.
Monday, January 26, 2004
Bullets over Scarborough
As (illegal) bullets just miss innocent civilians…
Ronald was surfing the Internet when the bullet ripped through his bedroom wall. Without thinking, he dived for cover. Three minutes passed before he felt it was safe to call the police.
… the Fiberals are targetting innocent civilians. I guess they will never learn.
:kr:Also, the province will introduce, and enforce, more demanding regulations for the storing of guns, which falls under provincial jurisdiction, in gun clubs and gun shops to make it harder for criminals to obtain them through break-ins.
Friday, January 9, 2004
Incarcerate, don’t regulate
Pleased to see the Star is publishing dissenting, more sensible views from the outside, at least on the gun control/registry issue:
The Star proffers that guns are the biggest threat facing Toronto’s citizens. This simply isn’t true. As Canada has some of the most restrictive gun control ordinances, one could rightly assume that since guns are illegal, they would not exist, and therefore, there would be no gun violence.
Peter Worthington thinks that we need more guns in the hands of law abiding citizens to perhaps curb the threat.
Wednesday, January 7, 2004
Kill it
The gun registry is coming up in the crosshairs, but there is little chance it will be completely killed off.
But the truth is, the Paul Martin government absolutely must dismantle the registry, and yet there is absolutely no way it can, and in both cases the reasons are political.
It may not even get wounded, which would be a shame.
:kr:
Thursday, January 1, 2004
Bang Bang
75 minutes into 2004, and the bullets are flying in Toronto.
On Wednesday, December 31, 2003 a 16-year-old female was shot several times while attending a New Years party in the area of Weston Road and Sheppard Avenue West in the City of Toronto.
It’s time the money spent on the useless registry are used to hire more cops - since apparently it takes an army of them to fill out the mountains of paperwork required by Charter lawyers.
Oh, and to start off the new year, let’s sign this petition to Kill the Registry!
:kr:
Saturday, December 6, 2003
Expensive failure
The MM previously mentioned leads into the insanely useless gun registry, where this article mentions that the bureaucrats of the registry even have a hospitality budget.
The evidence is clear and so is its meaning. Confiscating, prohibiting and registering guns are all expensive failures. The only beneficiaries of this perverse policy are criminals who can more easily prey on an unarmed citizenry and their bureaucratic accomplices whose jobs have the effect of harming this same populace.
The most damning statistic is that when you allow citizens to arm themselves and protect themselves, the crooks actually back off! :smile:
Worst of all for the emotional as well as for the more reasonable gun control advocates in Canada, the comparison with the U.S. is particularly unflattering. Today, where 35 states allow qualified and responsible citizens to carry concealed weapons, violent crime and homicide rates have plummeted.
Canadians have to learn to think and act for themselves, and stop sending in their money to Mother Ottawa to look after them at every 
turn!
Friday, November 28, 2003
What’s new?
More confirmation that the gun registry is a useless sham, robbing taxpayers without a gun.
The federal government’s much-maligned gun registry has been slammed yet again, this time by a Fraser Institute study released yesterday that concludes the costly firearm control program is becoming an international “farce.”
Thursday, November 6, 2003
Save your money
This letter writer says Florida has some laws that may make our gun-toting crooks think twice. Even if it doesn’t, it’s still better than the sink hole known as the gun registry.
RE ALL the letters about the proliferation of illegal guns and the crimes being committed with them: One of the problems is our lax justice system. I was recently in Florida on vacation. Florida has a 10-20-30 justice program for the use of a gun when committing a crime: 10 years if you show a gun while committing a crime; 20 years if you fire the gun; 30 years if you shoot a person. These sentences are automatic, non-negotiable, and are above and beyond the sentence (not concurrent) for the crime that was committed. This may not make a huge difference, but every little bit helps.
Pat Drumm
Courtice
(Sounds a heck of a lot more effective than a gun registry)
Wednesday, September 3, 2003
Col Alexander
Coast to Coast had an interesting guest on last night, Col. Alexander.
“I think we have already entered the next World War,” said Col. John Alexander, the main guest of Tuesday’s program, and the author of Winning the War: Advanced Weapons, Strategies, and Concepts for the Post-9/11 World. Alexander believes what he calls “World War X” began with the US response to 9-11. We have achieved something “Islam has not succeeded in doing in the last 1300 years,” and that’s uniting their separate factions,” he argued.
He also mentioned tasers as a good way to defend yourself, especially in your own home. Too bad they’re illegal in Canada. How does one defend their homes in Canada, anyway? A knife?
The Col. has a few interesting books:
Winning the War: Advanced Weapons, Strategies, and Concepts for the Post-9/11 World ($US orders)
Future War: Non-Lethal Weapons in Modern Warfare ($US orders)
Monday, August 25, 2003
New Registry
Surprised the feds haven’t caught on to this trend: how about a gun rental registry? I mean, it appears the bad guys are now renting guns by the hour.
Detectives in 23 Division, which encompasses Toronto’s northwest Rexdale neighbourhood, are investigating reports that weapons are rented out for as much as $250 an hour from private homes and nightclubs.
I hate giving the feds more ideas to steal our money for no good reason, but the irony was just too delicious to pass up.
Christ, with a billion dollars, or whatever it costs per year to run the registry, just imagine the extra cops in 23 division to quash crime. Of course, there’d be way more speed traps on my way to work too, but such is the cost.
Thursday, August 7, 2003
Not registered
Darn, I wonder if this guy would be alive if his assailiant’s gun was registered?
It also, he suggested, shows how readily available guns are in the city’s neighbourhoods and the “very short fuse” of the young people carrying them.
Can we hang up on the gun registry now and hire just a few extra patrols to cut down on chance murders?