From: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V8 #624 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 Monday, November 14 2005 Volume 08 : Number 624 In this issue: FEAR OF GANG WAR FADING British Columbia: Two hurt in brazen gang shooting OH DEER, IT'S HUNTING SEASON AGAIN Column: Gangs to blame, not U.S. guns Column: Anything goes has produced a worse society VEHICLE QUEST YIELDS GUN CACHE California: N.R.A. Sues To Overturn Gun Ban Police found two stolen and 10 unregistered guns Man charged with not registering guns Customs officers walk out, demand to carry guns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:39:41 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: FEAR OF GANG WAR FADING PUBLICATION: The Calgary Sun DATE: 2005.11.14 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: 4 BYLINE: PABLO FERNANDEZ, CALGARY SUN WORD COUNT: 218 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FEAR OF GANG WAR FADING CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE SAYS DRUG-TURF SHOWDOWNS NOT AN IMMEDIATE CONCERN - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Membership in bike gangs is flourishing, but fears a violent clash with Asian organized crime was inevitable are beginning to fade, according to a criminal intelligence report. An all-out turf war over the drug market in the province between the two elements expected earlier this year never percolated to a shooting spree, but that is the only perceivably positive point in a semi-annual report released last week by Criminal Intelligence Service Alberta. "Apparent intentions of the Hells Angels organization moving into drug territories earlier in the year have diminished and are no longer emerging threats of concern to law enforcement," states the 15-page report. But since spring of this year, the number of members belonging to the three Hells Angel's chapters in Alberta have grown by eight to a total of 57, while the total number of "support club" members have grown by three for a provincial total of 95, says the report. Until June of this year, CISA believed the Hells Angels were preparing to secure the southern Alberta drug market, an event that never materialized. One of the theories as to why a turf war between the two distinct criminal elements never sparked, points to Calgary's wealth as a factor, said Calgary Police Service Sgt. Gavin Walker. "When there's so much demand, there's no need to compete," said Walker. But motorcycle gangs are growing in number, which preoccupies city police. The report also says Asian gangs, which are pushing into the far reaches of the province, as evolving, adapting and expanding organizations. It says those gangs in Calgary and Edmonton have started to observe "mutual assistance pacts," which sees those criminal elements agreeing to support each other in their endeavours. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:40:21 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: British Columbia: Two hurt in brazen gang shooting PUBLICATION: The Ottawa Citizen DATE: 2005.11.13 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A5 SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen WORD COUNT: 120 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ British Columbia: Two hurt in brazen gang shooting - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Two men in their mid-twenties are in hospital with multiple gunshot wounds in what appears to be the latest in a string of brazen shootings linked to Indo-Canadian gangs. The victims were gunned down at the coat check at a restaurant in Burnaby, just after 1 a.m. yesterday. Video-surveillance images show a victim lying on the floor, his attacker standing over him aiming a handgun at his chest. Police believe the suspects were part of a group of six men. They were still at large last night. The shooters fired off at least 12, possibly 15, shots inside the restaurant. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:40:41 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: OH DEER, IT'S HUNTING SEASON AGAIN PUBLICATION: The Edmonton Sun DATE: 2005.11.14 EDITION: Final SECTION: Editorial/Opinion PAGE: 11 ILLUSTRATION: photo from Sun files Some hunters swear that doe urine, or buck lure, is one of the best methods to attract big bucks. BYLINE: PAUL WHITNEY, SPECIAL TO THE EDMONTON SUN WORD COUNT: 495 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OH DEER, IT'S HUNTING SEASON AGAIN - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is the time of year that many men, and some women, get into ruts. Some are so rattled that they will sit like statues in treetop foliage, making grunting noises, eating nothing but granola bars for days on end. Others will intentionally sit in ice-cold water with a smelly dog, clutching a frozen metal tube, dressed like Elmer Fudd but praying they sound like Donald Duck. They will leave ATV brochures under their significant other's pillow and during breakfast suggest, "Honey, what do you think about painting the Tahoe in real tree-bark camo?" It's hunting season and I'm at Canadian Tire with others huddled around a display of doe urine, or buck lure, or, more correctly, girl deer pee. Some hunters swear that buck lure is one of the best methods to attract big bucks. At $15-$20 an ounce, that's dear and big bucks. I look at one bottle and it's dated and serial numbered, guaranteeing its freshness. It has a better freshness guarantee than most food I buy. A big game-hunting friend of mine used so much buck lure during hunting season that he accidentally slapped on some lure instead of Old Spice before attending a singles cocktail party. Eventually he did attract some women, who noticed that most of the men were congregated around him. The unsettling part was the dog that kept circling and trying to herd him near the kitchen. After his second drink, he swore that the trophy buck head mounted over the fireplace kept eyeing him all night. A lot has been written about hunting, and it is unlikely that I will add anything new. However, I have noted that hunting seems to bring out odd behaviour in just about everyone. Especially non-hunters. In the Garden State of New Jersey, due to pressure from environmentalists, state officials stopped black bear hunting a few years ago. Slowly but surely, negative bear incidents involving humans increased - up 50% from last year. This included bears breaking into homes, attacking house pets and smacking little kids ... not to mention what they were doing to all those gardens. If humans had perpetrated these dastardly incidents, every state agency would have reacted to the crime wave. The SPCA would have swung into action protecting the domestic animals. Child advocacy agencies would have launched an immediate investigation into abuse. Police would have started rounding up the housebreakers. Martha Stewart would have been consulted on the best method for repairing those gardens. Instead, the state environmental commissioner proposed a program of contraception to control the bears. He didn't make it clear who was going to get bears to take the pill every month, or how they would actually find the bears or how much it would cost or, indeed, whether the bears would have the right to choose the pill over the rhythm method. Hunting advocates took no time at all to point these things out. After all, it was America, and its citizens have the right to bear arms. Hunting is a natural right. However, neither hunters nor animal activists were able to comment coherently on the constitutionality of the right to arm bears. An option no one considered. Still, many intelligent people consider hunting to be dangerous and inhumane, and for good reason. Try spending a week together with four guys dousing with deer pee instead of showering in the morning, on a steady diet of coffee, beer, beans and mars bars while sleeping in the same tent without anti-snoring medication ... There's no question this could be dangerous, let alone inhumane ... and I promise this year I won't forget my ear plugs. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:41:07 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: Column: Gangs to blame, not U.S. guns PUBLICATION: Vancouver Sun DATE: 2005.11.14 EDITION: Final SECTION: Editorial PAGE: A10 BYLINE: John R. Lott SOURCE: The National Post ILLUSTRATION: Photo: .38-calibre Cobray with laser sighting recovered,along with 11 other pistols and two Uzi-type automatic guns, by Surrey and Langley RCMP officers who had been alerted to a border jumper. WORD COUNT: 788 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gangs to blame, not U.S. guns - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ With Canada's murder rate rising 12 per cent last year and this year's high-profile rash of gang murders (six shootings two weeks ago in Toronto and a few in Vancouver recently), politicians are looking for someone to blame. The bogeyman, as usual, is America: During his dinner with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Prime Minister Paul Martin claimed Canada's gun crime problem was being caused by weapons smuggled in from down south. But Martin doesn't have the facts to back up the claim. Despite the $2-billion committed to the Liberals' gun registry, the government does not even know the number of guns seized from criminals, let alone where those guns came from. Nor does Martin's government have any evidence that gun smuggling has recently gotten worse. (In Toronto, which keeps some data on guns, Paul Culver, a senior Crown Attorney, claims U.S. guns are a "small part" of his city's problem.) Martin's larger mistake is that -- like most politicians in Canada -- he puts his faith in gun control as a means to fight crime, and clearly believes the United States should too. But as Canada's experience with its registry -- which hasn't solved any crimes -- shows, gun control isn't the answer. Getting law-abiding citizens to disarm or register their weapons is easy. The hard part is taking guns away from criminals. Toronto's and Vancouver's gangs have no trouble getting the illegal drugs they sell. Since they are already involved in a criminal trade, why should we expect that the law would keep them from acquiring guns to defend their turf? The experiences of the U.K. and Australia, two island nations whose borders are much easier to control and monitor, should also give Canadian gun controllers pause. The British government banned handguns in 1997 but recently reported that gun crime in England and Wales nearly doubled from 1998-99 to 2002-03. Since 1996, serious violent crime has soared by 69 per cent: Robbery is up by 45 per cent and murders up by 54 per cent. Before the law, armed robberies had fallen by 50 per cent from 1993 to 1997, but as soon as handguns were banned, the robbery rate shot back up, almost back to 1993 levels. The crooks still had guns, but not their victims. The immediate effect of Australia's 1996 gun-control regulations was similar. Crime rates averaged 32 per cent higher in the six years after the law was passed (from 1997 to 2002) than in 1995. The same comparisons for armed robbery rates showed an increase of 74 per cent. Outside of Canada and Europe, skepticism of gun-control laws' effectiveness is widespread. It was the major reason why the recent referendum to ban guns in Brazil was defeated by an almost two-to-one vote. Despite progressively stricter gun-control laws in that country, murder rates rose every year from 1992 to 2002. As in the U.K., the regulations simply tilted the balance of power in favour of criminals. During the 1990s, just as Britain, Australia and Brazil were regulating guns, the U.S. was going in the opposite direction. Thirty-seven of the 50 states now have so-called "right-to-carry laws," which let law-abiding adults carry concealed handguns once they pass a criminal background check and pay a fee. Only half the states require any training, usually around three to five hours' worth. Yet the murder rate has fallen faster in these states than the national average. Overall, the states in the U.S. with the fastest growth rates in gun ownership during the 1990s have experienced the biggest drops in violent crime. It isn't guns that primarily drive violence crime, but drugs (and the war fought against drugs). Few Canadians appreciate that over 70 per cent of American murders take place in just 3.5 per cent of counties -- these being the inner-city areas where drug dealers are concentrated. Drug gangs can't simply call up the police when another gang encroaches on their turf, so they end up essentially setting up their own armies. It's foolish to blame the U.S. for the predictable actions of profit-seeking gangsters: Just as U.S. gangs will always find some way to smuggle drugs in from Latin America, Canadian gangs will find a way to smuggle in weapons to defend their turf. In other words, if you want to get rid of the murders, stop focusing on the guns and get rid of the gangs. John R. Lott, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of More Guns, Less Crime and The Bias Against Guns. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:43:36 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: Column: Anything goes has produced a worse society PUBLICATION: The Moncton Times and Transcript DATE: 2005.11.14 SECTION: Opinion PAGE: D7 COLUMN: Guest Commentaries BYLINE: Charles W. Moore For The Times & Transcript WORD COUNT: 719 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Anything goes has produced a worse society - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is fascinating in a horrific way - similar to watching the snake slowly devour a bird - witnessing our once-great culture disintegrating under the stress of nincompoop secular humanist ideologies. Take the topic of abuse of parents by their children. Parent abuse, as defined by social scientists, is children physically, verbally, are mentally abusing their parents, up to and including murdering them. Now, Lizzie Borden and her axe notwithstanding, this would have been a bizarre concept up until even, say, 20 years ago. From a historic perspective, parent abuse by children as a significant social phenomenon is something radically recent, so it is pertinent to try and analyze how we have come to this sorry pass. I have already named the culprit - the execrably awful philosophical notions that dominate culture-making these days, combined with widespread rejection and denial of the legitimacy of authority, especially the ultimate authority of God. In a newspaper report on this topic, a clinical therapist and purported expert on social issues suggested that when society "rightly" swung away from "rigid authoritarianism" about 30 or 40 years ago, many people embraced a philosophy of total equality, parents rejected their traditional role as authority figures, and assumed the role of friend into their children. "It is a really significant problem" this expert allowed. "In the struggle to raise our children in a non-authoritarian way, we have become very confused about the distinction between authoritarian and authority." There's confusion all right, but it's more than nonsensical semantic hair-splitting over "authoritarian" versus "authority." For one thing, the qualifier "rightly" is an ideological value judgment that undermines the sensible things this person had to say. Why was it necessarily right to abandon what she termed "authoritarianism" in child raising? I have lived through the 30-40 year span she cites and 15-25 years beyond, and I suggest that end result analysis indicates that there was nothing right at all about abandoning so-called authoritarianism in parenting. If we compare the 1950s, the decade of my formative years, with now, the present does not commend itself. Of course it's not just the topical issue of parent abuse, but a host of social criteria under which the 2000s compare unfavorably with the 1950s. In the 1950s: - - Teen suicide was virtually unheard of; - - School shootings, if there were any, were exceedingly rare; - - Only a small percentage of marriages broke up (Canada's divorce rate in the 1950s was about 40 per 100,000, and more than 60 per cent of lone parents then were widowed; divorce rates hit 278 per 100,000 in 1981, receding to 223 per 100,000 by 1997). - - "Latchkey kids" was a term yet to be coined; - - Schools did not require security measures and in some cases a police presence; - - Traditional virtues: politeness, honesty, responsibility, and yes respect for authority, were taught and demanded; - - Adolescent drug abuse was limited to relatively rare experimentation with contraband alcohol; - - Teenage sexual activity was considered shameful rather than inevitable; - - Parent abuse by children would be considered an outlandish aberration. Kids in that era lived in a much more structured and ordered environment, but the operative question is: in which period - then or now - is/was childhood a happier, healthier, better adjusted, and safer experience? Having lived through both - one as a child and the other as an interested observer of my own children's encounters with their chronological peers and popular culture, I would answer an unhesitating and emphatic "then." I would also suggest that anyone who would argue that the distempers of post-modern culture are preferable to the problems of 1950 culture (the 1950's were not utopia) has seriously distorted perceptual faculties. The problem here is the liberal humanist delusion, inherited from faulty philosophers like Rousseau, Locke, and Nietzsche, that the fundament underlying human social problems is, to cite Rousseau, "man is born free, but is everywhere in chains." Ergo, in liberal analysis the trouble is caused by an unjust and repressive institutions, not selfish human desires and destructive impulses. Those of us who have more time for "authoritarianism" offer a different paradigmatic vision: it is foolish and immoral free will choices that explain social ills, and "freedom," paradoxically, can only truly exist in an environment of order and accountability, which implies authority to enforce that accountability. Nowhere is that more true than in the basic building block of functional societies, the traditional family. As the Good Book sayeth: "Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:43:49 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: VEHICLE QUEST YIELDS GUN CACHE PUBLICATION: The London Free Press DATE: 2005.11.11 EDITION: Final SECTION: City & Region PAGE: B5 BYLINE: FREE PRESS STAFF COLUMN: Police Digest WORD COUNT: 134 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VEHICLE QUEST YIELDS GUN CACHE - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The search for a stolen Jeep led Lambton OPP to a cache of loaded firearms, stolen property and unmarked cigarettes and liquor on a rural property west of Glencoe. Police were searching an Annett Road site about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday for the vehicle reported stolen from London when they found three other stolen vehicles, a farm tractor, riding lawn mower, snowmobile, jet ski and generator, worth a total of about $15,000, said Const. John Reurink. Police are still trying to determine who owns all the items. Officers also uncovered marijuana, unmarked cigarettes and liquor and nine long guns and three handguns, some of which were loaded and not stored properly, Reurink said. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:46:32 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: California: N.R.A. Sues To Overturn Gun Ban PUBLICATION: The New York Times SECTION: National EDITION: Late Edition - Final DATE: 2005.11.11 PAGE: 16 SOURCE: AP WORD COUNT: 72 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ National Briefing West: California: N.R.A. Sues To Overturn Gun Ban - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A day after San Francisco voters approved a ban on handgun possession and firearm sales, the National Rifle Association sued Wednesday to overturn the ordinance. In 1982, a state appeals court nullified an almost identical ban on the ground that the city cannot enact an ordinance that conflicts with state law allowing the sale and possession of handguns and ammunition. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:46:46 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: Police found two stolen and 10 unregistered guns PUBLICATION: The London Free Press DATE: 2005.11.12 EDITION: Final SECTION: City & Region PAGE: B4 BYLINE: FREE PRESS STAFF COLUMN: Police Digest WORD COUNT: 131 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GUNS, DRUGS, STOLEN GOODS SEIZED IN RAID - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A police raid on a rural farm west of Glencoe Wednesday recovered stolen property, guns, and drugs worth more than $500,000, police said yesterday. When police raided the Annett Road farm, they found two stolen and 10 unregistered guns -- some loaded or stored unsafely -- and ammunition. Also seized was marijuana with a street value of $384,000, contraband cigarettes and alcohol and more than $150,000 in stolen property. An $80,000 tractor, snowmobile, riding lawnmower, ATV, watercraft and utility trailer were confiscated, plus $5,000 cash. A man, 51, and a 48-year-old woman face charges, police said. Provincial police and auto theft teams are investigating. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:47:05 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: Man charged with not registering guns PUBLICATION: The Sault Star DATE: 2005.11.11 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A4 COLUMN: Police Beat SOURCE: Sault Star WORD COUNT: 44 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Man charged with not registering guns - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ontario Provincial Police have charged a St. Joseph Island man for allegedly failing to register five firearms. The man was arrested on Wednesday. Joseph Tomchak, 47, of 2855 Green St. on St. Joseph Island, has been charged with one count of possession of firearms knowing possession is unauthorized. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:47:18 -0600 (CST) From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1 Subject: Customs officers walk out, demand to carry guns PUBLICATION: The Record (Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo) DATE: 2005.11.11 EDITION: Final SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A3 SOURCE: Canadian Press DATELINE: WINDSOR WORD COUNT: 95 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Customs officers walk out, demand to carry guns - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Canada Customs officers staged a work refusal yesterday at two southwestern Ontario border cities, backing up traffic entering the country. The Customs and Excise Union says the workers who walked out in Windsor and Sarnia are concerned about job safety because they aren't armed. The officers claim their jobs as inspectors have become too dangerous, and the federal government isn't protecting them. "We don't have the proper protective equipment to do our duties,'' said Mike Coene, president of the Sarnia local of the officers' union. With officers routinely stopping drivers trying to illegally bring weapons into Canada, the lack of protection has become a concern, he said. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V8 #624 ********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Moderator's e-mail address: mailto:akimoya@cogeco.ca List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca FAQ list: http://www.magma.ca/~asd/cfd-faq1.html and http://teapot.usask.ca/cdn-firearms/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://teapot.usask.ca/cdn-firearms/homepage.html FTP Site: ftp://teapot.usask.ca/pub/cdn-firearms/ CFDigest Archives: http://www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/~ab133/ or put the next command in an e-mail message and mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca get cdn-firearms-digest v04.n192 end (192 is the digest issue number and 04 is the volume) To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next five lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-alert unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".) 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