From: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V6 #533 Reply-To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Sender: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Errors-To: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Precedence: normal Cdn-Firearms Digest Wednesday, October 1 2003 Volume 06 : Number 533 In this issue: Column: Privatized defence weakens true north One in four women suffers spousal abuse: 1999 study released earlier BOYFRIEND SAYS POLICE WERE WARNED ABOUT KILLER Column: Each year we have fewer hunters - eventually it will be t Canada's homicide rate increased in 2002 - homicides with firearms fell Home invasions in city on the rise; HOMICIDES INVOLVING FIREARMS, 1974-2001 Re: Response to Al Muir re: NFA, Ottawa Office, OFAH The new gun-law in South Africa Back Stabbing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:35:42 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Column: Privatized defence weakens true north PUBLICATION: Calgary Herald DATE: 2003.10.01 EDITION: Final SECTION: Comment PAGE: A13 COLUMN: Barry Cooper & David Bercuson BYLINE: Barry Cooper & David Bercuson SOURCE: For The Calgary Herald - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= Privatized defence weakens true north - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= The vast northern regions of the Canadian Arctic will soon be guarded by the airborne equivalent of Stand-on-Guard Alarms Inc. Currently, the Canadian air force operates 18 CP-140 Aurora long-range patrol aircraft. The Auroras, however, are now old and ready to retire. A number of them are presently undergoing full refits so they can limp into the sky for a few more years. Because of a decade of budget cuts, the remainder of the Aurora fleet is being carefully husbanded. They can no longer fly as many hours as when they were young. Besides, the cost of gas to keep the engines turning has become too high. The solution being looked at is to hire private companies to conduct air sovereignty patrols. Presumably, the system will work along the lines of a private security company that guards individual houses. Its procedures are clear: when a security company gets an alert, it tries to contact the house owner, and then it calls the cops. Consider the following scenario: Stand-on-Guard Alarms, which has now contracted to run Canadian sovereignty patrols, spots something from the air that looks suspicious. They send an emergency call to the Canadian air force to scramble a couple of CF-18s from the nearest fighter base. But, wait! Canada's CF-18s are also undergoing an extended refit. Most are not available. The aircraft on standby may not have pilots to fly them because military aviators are abandoning the service in droves and these highly skilled individuals are not being replaced. So, instead, a call will go to the navy to send a helicopter from one of Canada's nearby patrol frigates or destroyers. But, wait! There is that old familiar Sea King problem. The navy would send one of these things if it could, but they are even older than the Auroras and the CF-18s. They tend to break down in mid-flight, or crash on lift-off. And, they have to spend long weeks in the repair hangar. It looks like the privately contracted crew of the privately contracted surveillance aircraft will just have to go down and take a look themselves. If they see real trouble brewing -- people smugglers, for example, herding several hundred students with visas to non-existent business colleges over the ice towards the nearest habitation -- they would then alert the Canadian army. The army might then consider bringing troops in by way of the Canadian Forces Hercules transports. But, wait! The CC-130 Hercules may not be available. Most of the fleet is also four decades old. At any given moment, about half are in small pieces in repair depots and hangars. The government recently recognized the problem posed by the Hercs and responded with great imagination: they put out tenders for used Hercules' body parts -- airframes without engines, wheels or navigation equipment. They are hoping that Stand-on-Guard Aircraft Supplies will come up with Herc bodies in good enough shape to allow the miracle-working mechanics of the Canadian air force to take the engines and tires from the very old Hercs that Canada owns and swap them with the slightly less old ones they propose to acquire. If there are no Hercs available because they are undergoing wheel and engine transplants, the government might consider bringing paratroopers to the scene. They would have to rent commercial aircraft and have the troops jump out the back end. But, wait! The Canadian Airborne Regiment has been disbanded. Most of the paratroopers who still ply their trade with one of the infantry jump companies are either in Afghanistan or Bosnia, or getting ready to go there. The rest are enjoying a post-mission leave after two years of high-tempo operations. To the rescue will come the Canadian Rangers. They are the young men of the Far North who staunchly continue to do their duty, patrolling the Arctic wastes on snowmobiles and four-wheel-drive vehicles, still armed with Lee-Enfield .303 bolt-action carbines, a rifle that first saw service in the Boer War. Dauntless in courage and eager in spirit, the handful of Canadian Rangers who patrol the vast Arctic perimeter of Canada are now the only military presence this country has defending one of its most important frontiers. That scenario would count as a good day for Canada. On a bad day, Stand-on-Guard Security might spot an intruder entering a distant inlet ready to disembark terrorists heading for southern cities at just about 5 p.m. on a weekday afternoon. The crew would know what to do then: head home for a beer. It's quitting time. Barry Cooper is a professor of political science at the University of Calgary, where David Bercuson is director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:39:06 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: One in four women suffers spousal abuse: 1999 study released earlier PUBLICATION: Edmonton Journal DATE: 2003.10.01 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A6 BYLINE: Ryan Cormier SOURCE: The Edmonton Journal DATELINE: EDMONTON - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= One in four women suffers spousal abuse: 1999 study released earlier this week - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= EDMONTON -One in four Alberta women faces some sort of spousal abuse -- more than in any other province -- according to a recently released study. The Canadian Institute for Health Information says 25.5 per cent of Alberta women have reported abuse, varying from emotional to physical, with the number doubling to 56.6 per cent among aboriginal women. The statistics are based on surveys done in 1999 and include current or former partners. Officially released Tuesday, the report comes two days after police say a Red Deer man used a shotgun to kill his wife and son before turning the weapon on himself. Josif Fekete and his estranged wife Betty Fekete had been involved in a custody battle over their three-year-old son Alex for a year before the killings. Betty Fekete had asked for temporary police protection two days before and had periodically stayed at women's shelters during her separation. Carolyn Goard, president of the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters, said the Fekete murders are a result of the same problems that lead to Alberta's high spousal abuse rates. "The tragedy in Red Deer speaks to a failure in all of us to mount a co-ordinated response to spousal abuse," she said. "We are all responsible." Such a response has to come from government, the justice system, police and women's shelters, she said. Goard believes steps have been taken to improve such co-ordination because she's been speaking with Alberta's Ministry of Children's Services and the RCMP, but says more work is needed. A booming economy in Alberta could be contributing to high abuse rates, Goard said. With people working long hours and not devoting time to family, the resulting stress can end in abuse. High alcoholism and substance abuse rates in Alberta don't help either, she said. Sandra Danco, executive director of Edmonton's Women Shelter, says shelters are overflowing. Edmonton's WIN House accommodates 1,000 women and children each year and still have to turn away 700 to 800 more. However, the answer doesn't lie with building more shelters, said Muriel Stanley Venne, the president of the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women. "We have to stop violence against these women before they have to move to a shelter." Venne believes the high rate of spousal abuse against aboriginal women reflects the lower value their husbands and others place on them compared with non-aboriginal women. rcormier@thejournal.canwest.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:40:54 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: BOYFRIEND SAYS POLICE WERE WARNED ABOUT KILLER PUBLICATION: The Edmonton Sun DATE: 2003.10.01 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: 8 ILLUSTRATION: photo Murder victims Blagica Fekete and her son Alex. BYLINE: MIKE D'AMOUR, SUN MEDIA DATELINE: CALGARY - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= BOYFRIEND SAYS POLICE WERE WARNED ABOUT KILLER - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= The boyfriend of a woman who was murdered with her three-year-old boy in an apartment lobby said he'll demand an inquiry into why the RCMP didn't arrest the killer before he went on his bloody spree. "This is crap," said a distraught Byron Harpold, the live-in boyfriend of murder victim Blagica Fekete, who along with her son Alex was shot to death by her ex-husband, Josif Fekete, before he killed himself with the same weapon. "(Red Deer Mounties) knew about this guy and how violent he was," Harpold said. "I told them and Blagica told them, but the police did nothing." Cab driver Josif had little Alex with him on a court-ordered visit Sunday, and was to drop him at his mother's Red Deer apartment around 6:20 p.m. Blagica, 40, met the pair at the front door and unlocked it from inside, letting them into the lobby. Police said an argument took place and ended only when Josif pulled a shotgun and - while his little son watched - fired a single shot at his wife, killing her instantly. Josif, 45, then fired the weapon at his son, killing him on the spot. He then turned the gun on himself. Harpold said there were plenty of warning signs that Josif had the potential to become a killer. "He would stalk Blagica and she phoned the police on him many times, but they did nothing," he said. "(Alex's) dad taught him to hit women, to swear, and tell people, 'Mom is going to die' ... I heard it word for word." Harpold also said he complained to police when the cab driver tried to run him off the road. "I think he was trying to kill us and there were witnesses with me at the time," Harpold said. He said he called 911 several times after having run-ins with his girlfriend's ex. Police would not return phone calls to The Sun yesterday, but on Monday they did admit they knew a problem existed between Blagica and Josif, a couple who moved to Canada from their native Yugoslavia eight years ago. RCMP Insp. Peter Calvert said police had been to Blagica's apartment several times for a variety of reasons, most relating to the care of Alex. However, Calvert said Monday police never had enough grounds to lay charges against Josif, who had a prior conviction for assaulting another man with a weapon. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:43:52 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Column: Each year we have fewer hunters - eventually it will be t PUBLICATION: The Moncton Times and Transcript DATE: 2003.10.01 SECTION: Opinion/Editorial PAGE: D4 COLUMN: Everett Mosher BYLINE: EVERETT MOSHER Outdoor Life - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disc system flawed - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For hunters, Oct. 1 is a day long anticipated. Oct. 1 marks the opening day of the waterfowl season, the small game and bird season, and the start of the fall bear season. Those who hunt with a bow have already had the chance to hunt bear during the Sept. 8-20 archery season. The archery season for deer opens Oct. 6. Less than 6,000 New Brunswick residents obtained a Migratory Game Bird Hunting Permit last fall. Based on what local hunters are saying, it's likely that even fewer hunters will be after waterfowl this season. The reasons given range from the cost of the permit and steel shot to Bill C68 and the need to wear protective gloves when dressing out the birds due to concerns about contacting West Nile virus. Another factor is the fewer younger hunters taking up the sport compared to the number of older hunters that have either passed on, or given up hunting due to medical problems. Grouse hunting remains popular, although it's likely that a significant number are deer hunters using grouse hunting as an excuse to spend time in the woods until the deer season opens. Yet there is also a significant number of adult residents that don't hunt deer or bear, and prefer spending the entire fall season hunting the uplands in search of grouse, woodcock, or rabbits. A common complaint hunters have is in regard to the posting of land with red or yellow discs. The majority believe this system is being badly abused. Without a doubt some land owners are posting their woodlands with red discs, which means no hunting allowed, and then hunting those same woodlands themselves. This in effect is creating a private hunting preserve. Yes, this is against the law, but since the land is posted, who is going to venture in and catch the landowner in the act? Land posted with yellow discs means that hunting is allowed by permission only. Again, this in effect is creating a private hunting preserve, since any outsider that calls the landowner is often told that he or she has already given permission to several hunters and cannot give permission to any more due to safety concerns. Again, who can determine if in fact that is the case? According to the law, any yellow disc is supposed to have a number on it which, when given to the local DNR, will allow the hunter to contact the land owner. Yet it's very common to see yellow discs with no number at all. Most hunters seeing such a sign will drive on, yet by law, due to a lack of number the yellow discs are not legal, and should not deter the hunter from hunting the area. Another factor is that the complete perimeter of the property is supposed to be posted, yet it is very common that only the road side of the property will be posted with red or yellow discs. Then too, it appears that a number of hunters upon finding an area with good deer signs will post the roadside with red or yellow discs, even though they do not own the land, or have the permission of the land owner to do so. For these reasons the present disc system is seriously flawed. Those that abuse the system should be punished, but as we all know, that will not happen. It's strange that our adjacent province of Nova Scotia does not have any system of this type, yet has very few problems of the sort that our disc system is supposed to prevent. Like Bill C68, the average hunter would prefer that our disc system be abolished, or at least significantly changed. Each year we have fewer hunters. If the trend continues eventually it will be the wildlife that will suffer, due to so few left that truly care. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:44:58 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Canada's homicide rate increased in 2002 - homicides with firearms fell STATISTICS CANADA Homicides - 2002 Canada's homicide rate increased in 2002 after two years of relative stability. At the same time, the proportion of homicides committed with firearms fell to an all-time low. http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/031001/d031001a.htm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:46:05 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Home invasions in city on the rise; PUBLICATION: Toronto Star DATE: 2003.10.01 SECTION: NEWS PAGE: B04 SOURCE: Toronto Star BYLINE: Cal Millar - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= Home invasions in city on the rise; But police say innocent victims rarely targeted Often involve disputes over drugs or money - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= There has been an upsurge in the number of home invasions this year across Toronto, but investigators say most involve victims and suspects who know each other, and are not random attacks. Detective Sergeant Wilf Townley of the police holdup squad said only a small percentage target innocent victims, and residents shouldn't worry about gangs forcing their way into their homes. "The average homeowner doesn't have to worry. There aren't people going around watching decent people and going in and doing their houses." Townley said in most cases, there's a connection between the victims and suspects. "Most are drug rips or disputes between criminals," he said, or disputes where the victim owes money. According to police, so far this year there have been 137 home-invasion robberies, said Staff Inspector Steve Harris, head of Toronto's holdup squad. Last year at this time, police had recorded 115 home invasions. There have been eight such robberies in the past two weeks. In the latest incidents, two men burst into a house on Sweeney Dr., near Victoria Park and Lawrence Aves., Sunday night and threatened a mother and her 24-year-old daughter. The mother was struck several times with a hammer and the young woman was roughed up by the attackers, who tied them up after the assaults. Police were alerted to the attack by a 17-year-old girl, who hid in a closet when the bandits broke in and called for help on a cellphone. One man was arrested after police dogs searched the area, and investigators have the name of the second suspect, who is still being sought. Investigation showed an attempt to collect a gambling debt was behind the home invasion. In another case over the weekend, a man was beaten and stabbed after three men forced their way into an Oakridge Dr. home, near Kingston and Bellamy Rds. Police said the victim, a man in his 20s, was beaten with a shotgun carried by one of the attackers and repeatedly stabbed. He was treated at hospital, but officials said his injuries were not life-threatening. Police are still investigating. Harris said investigators have found that friends or family members may have been responsible for setting up some recent home invasions. He said family or friends might know that someone keeps large amounts of cash or valuables at home and talk about it with others. "Word has reached the criminal community and that is why some people have been targeted," he said. In one home invasion last month, a Toronto jeweller was robbed after three men forced their way into his North York home. Police later arrested the man's adopted 17-year-old daughter and a 19-year-old man. Harris urged people not to keep large amounts of cash and jewelry at home, but if they must, they shouldn't let others know. "Keep that information to yourself," he said. Home-invasion style robberies began in the late 1980s and early '90s and first involved organized gangs preying on members of the Asian community. Police said the majority of the early home invasions were carried out by Chinese street gangs to terrorize business owners who had refused to pay protection money, or to collect gambling debts. But Harris said it would be unfair to say any particular ethnic group is involved in home invasions today. In the early 1990s, when Toronto averaged three home invasions a week, police set up a combined force of holdup squad investigators and members of the Asian crime squad to track down gang members. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:47:30 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: HOMICIDES INVOLVING FIREARMS, 1974-2001 HOMICIDES INVOLVING FIREARMS, 1974-2001 - Documented as of: September 25, 2002 http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/HomicidesInvolvingFirearms1974-2001.pdf ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:48:44 -0600 (CST) From: "Al Muir" Subject: Re: Response to Al Muir re: NFA, Ottawa Office, OFAH Hi Fred, For clarification I do agree it is worth trashing the OFAH on this issue. I have been privately chastised for doing it publicly. I have had to disagree with those who suggested this is not the proper way to go about it. The old ways are clearly not working. The OFAH is not the only group that has supported licensing. The NFA is another example. I have no problem with all groups that support it being clearly identified and chastised. I have forwarded my comments to the OFAH as widely as possible in order to prompt others to challenge the OFAH's position. I was on the NFA Digest warning against acceptance of licensing before the licensing deadline. The issue of accepting licensing should have been dealt with years ago. Too many individuals and groups have dangerously delayed our confrontation with our enemies and errored grieviously on the licensing issue. Our and my job is twofold right now. First, to preach the dangers of licensing as widely as possible. Second, to prepare those that favor it and the government that might accept removal of registration contingent on the acceptance of licensing that resistance will not cease. It will escalate. I think I have been clear to Linda that the groups that accept licensing are in a minority as are individual gun owners that accept it. It is the majority we must reach. In the case of the NFA after trying to change their direction for a number of years with no results I have given up. Lessons learned there led to my OFAH comments you referred to. I believe their position is now irretractable. In the case of the NFA raising funds for the removal of the group in control could result in some sanity being injected in the organization in regards to licensing. Trashing them expends energy that should be going to the fund raising endeavor that may yield results. I am not saying that the trashing of the NFA or OFAH will not have any results I am saying that more benefit can be gained by working on other areas. I do not believe you are overreacting. I believe others are underreacting. Take care Al ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:50:29 -0600 (CST) From: "Karl Schrader" Subject: The new gun-law in South Africa Here is what a Liberal 280 seat-Government will be looking at: .............individuals be allowed ONE firearm for PROTECTION . Does anyone know anything more about this new law in South Africa ? Does that mean one handgun "for protection" or one gun (long or short) period ??? +++++++++++++++ The new Firearms Act in South Africa stipulates: All existing gun owners and new owners will have to apply for licences, with private individuals allowed to own one firearm for protection. Owners of additional weapons will have to sell them through a registered gun shop or hand them over to the police for disposal. Fat chance to sell them, this is plainly meanness ! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:51:16 -0600 (CST) From: "ross" Subject: Back Stabbing PORT COQUITLAM -- A chef at a local White Spot restaurant thwarted an armed robbery by stabbing one of the suspects in the back with a knife WHAT!!!! HOW DARE THIS Chef stab a fleeing fellon in the back.... I hope the Police charge and prosecutre this slicer and dicer to the fullest extent that the law allows. everyone knows that you cannot shoot a criminal in the back and i would imagine that means stab in the back as well. The threat was retiring/retreating and ceased to be a threat. Find this culinary attacker guilty and let him swing. Justice must be done for this criminal. 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