From: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V9 #487 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, June 5 2006 Volume 09 : Number 487 In this issue: Experts warn of another 'Summer of the Gun' Young Canadians yearning for a more just country Re: Cdn-Firearms Digest V9 #483 Re: Cdn-Firearms Digest V9 #484 [LETTER] Scrap the gun registry Feedback to Mr. Volpe Life yields only to the conqueror June Appleseed Shoot Kiwi Help Needed Re: Feedback to Mr. Volpe Perceptions BREITKREUZ IN QUESTION PERIOD South Africans 'lose' 50,000 guns Leader Post Editorial: Harper shows political skills ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 08:19:17 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Experts warn of another 'Summer of the Gun' http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060603/gun_violence_060603/20060603?hub=Canada Experts warn of another 'Summer of the Gun' Updated Sat. Jun. 3 2006 11:51 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff Gun violence is on the rise in Canada's major cities, and police are bracing themselves for another season of escalating casualties. "Summertime months are peak months for gun violence, and the question is will we face another 'Summer of the Gun,'" Bill Hubble, deputy director of the Criminal Intelligence Service, a federal agency, told CTV News. In Toronto, Canada's largest city, 52 of 78 homicides in 2005 had firearms involved. A spate in late summer saw about 20 shootings in a two-week period. Gun violence isn't just a summer thing. In mid-November, a young man was shot to death at a church while attending the funeral of a friend, who was shot to death himself a week earlier. Gun crime became a major election woman when a teenage girl died in the crossfire between hoodlums as she was out shopping on Boxing Day on Yonge St., the city's major thoroughfare. Experts trace the problem to guns flowing into Canada from the United States, although criminals also steal from legitimate gun owners. The reason for the flow of illegal guns northward is quite simple: Gun smuggling is highly profitable. A high-quality $300 pistol bought in Philadelphia can fetch around $2,000 in Canada. Criminal organizations like the Hells Angels and Asian triads, competing for control over the lucrative trafficking, are willing to pay for firepower. "They are fighting for money," said Insp. Paul Nadeau of the RCMP Drug Squad. "It's profits, it's power and this is drug driven. Make no mistake about it, this is drug-driven." On the West Coast, Canadian criminals are buying weapons from the U.S. with drugs. "We see marijuana going south and we see guns coming back," said Hubble. Armed criminals are an increasing presence on Canada's streets -- a threat all too familiar to police. "Every day in the city of Toronto, my police officers are encountering armed criminals in possession of loaded handguns," said Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair. This year, Toronto police have confiscated about 800 guns compared to , up 20 per cent from last year. From coast to coast, gang members prefer semi-automatic handguns. "Having a gun is part of the scene, it's part of the image," said Nadeau. "It's the gangster lifestyle." Police are fighting the problem with undercover operations, trying to crack the organized smugglers. The Conservative government pledged $20 million in the federal budget to fight gun crime. Officials say the money and the Conservative government's promised legislation to toughen penalties for gun crime will help, but they want more people at the border for searches and increased funding to retrieve serial numbers from guns used in crimes. With a report by CTV's Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 08:51:00 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Young Canadians yearning for a more just country Just a little peek at what the other side has been up to... http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1149285034366&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795 Young Canadians yearning for a more just country The environment, aboriginal issues high on their agenda, says Thomas Axworthy Jun. 4, 2006. 01:00 AM Leo Tolstoy advised that adults should spend as much time as possible with the young. So it proved for me when I attended the recent YouthLinks Summit of the Historica Foundation in Kingston, Ont. YouthLinks is an electronic network for high schools that allows students from Canada and around the world to post their views on a host of critical topics such as immigration or peacekeeping. The culminating activity is a summit where 70 to 100 students are invited to spend a week together face to face after their year of interacting electronically. This year's topic was "Defining citizenship." The students spent a week debating the responsibilities and opportunities involved in being a citizen. I took away three dominant impressions from the young people I met. The first is how proud they are that Canada stayed out of the war in Iraq. One's position on the invasion of Iraq is seen as a signpost of values and judgment. Leaders like George Bush or Tony Blair, who led their countries into that debacle, will never be heroes to this generation. Second, youth see the environment as an issue of the collective good vs. special interests. The leader who can appeal to this desire for Canada to stand for something noble — something greater than individual tax breaks — will find an enthusiastic audience in our young. Third, Canada's responsibility to aboriginal citizens is a challenge young people will accept. The most moving and controversial panel at the summit was on "The healing process," where aboriginal speakers spoke about their trip to Europe to call home the spirits of native fallen soldiers. The students were shocked by the abuses natives endured in residential schools and saddened by the treatment of our native soldiers once they had returned home. Canada's cover-up of native history reminded Evan Price of Saskatchewan of "the friend you have, the one who helps everyone else but just can't accept problems of their own." Another student, Matthew Moulton, wrote movingly that "tears can't redo the past; all we can give them is hope for the future." To dramatize the citizenship theme, the summit organized a contest — The Order of Historica — in which each provincial delegation campaigned for a past figure that best represented civic ideals. The students put on skits, presented videos and even rewrote songs like Blowin' in the Wind to extol their heroes. The winner: Nellie McClung, the great Manitoba suffragette. In my speech to the students, I nominated as my hero Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler even as the leaders of his church appeased evil. Having preached against Hitler throughout the 1930s, his friends got Bonhoeffer out of Germany in 1939 and he was safe in New York. But Bonhoeffer agonized over his responsibility to the German people and he returned, only to be executed. He went to his death smiling and forgiving his Gestapo tormentors. Bonhoeffer's colleague in the Confessing Church, Martin Niemöller, wrote a famous passage that defines what Bonhoeffer's sacrifice implies for our responsibility as citizens: "First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me." Bonhoeffer spoke out. At Kingston, our young people also spoke out: They want a better Canada, a moral Canada, and they want it now. Thomas S. Axworthy is chairman of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, Queen's University, and was executive director of Historica from 2000 to 2005. He served as principal secretary to prime minister Pierre Trudeau. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 09:38:13 -0600 (CST) From: "M.J. Ackermann, MD" Subject: Re: Cdn-Firearms Digest V9 #483 > Albert 4 wrote: > >> > So because these women _tell_ a sypathetic interviewer that they >> > are at a "severe risk of homicide" it follows that they really are? >> > >> > Is the only criteria for being "at risk of being murdered" simply >> > stating it as fact? >> > > Bingo! We have a winner! > > Talk about a biased sample, too... > > Yours in Liberty, > Bruce > Hamilton > Ontario In the 1600's in England there was a witch hunt going on. Anyone could accuse you of witchcraft and the Inquisitor would be called in to get the Devil out of the town. He would employ various "tests" (read "tortures") to get you to confess. Tests were things like branding, near drowning, beating,, non fatal stabbing, etc., and of course sexual sadism and rape was used extensively on the Inquisitors' preferred subjects - pretty young women. If a test killed you, you were declared innocent. Oh, so sorry, but one can't make an omelet without cracking eggs. If you survived the test the Devil was obviously aiding you and so more severe means were required. Every refusal to confess was viewed as evidence that the Devil was strong in you and so again more severe means were called for. If you did confess, you were required to implicate others who would also be subjected to this inquisition, thereby guaranteeing a fresh source of employment and amusement for the Inquisitors, then you would be hanged. Village elders actually paid richly for this "service" and thanked the Inquisitors for ridding them of the Devil. No one seemed to consider that perhaps the Devil was actually the Inquisitor and not the young innocents who now lay in unmarked graves having succumbed to every horror the Mob could dream up. Are we any different today? Only in degree, I think. - -- M.J. Ackermann, MD (Mike) Rural Family Physician, Sherbrooke, NS Secretary, St. Mary's Shooters Association President, Guysborough County Horse and Pony Association Member All For Horses Association, Nova Scotia Equestrian Federation Box 13, 120 Cameron Rd. Sherbrooke, NS Canada B0J 3C0 902-522-2172 My email: mikeack@ns.sympatico.ca My Bio: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/mikeack/mikeack.htm SMSA URL: www.smsa.ca "Hope for the best, but plan for the worst". ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 09:49:03 -0600 (CST) From: "M.J. Ackermann, MD" Subject: Re: Cdn-Firearms Digest V9 #484 > Dallaire fears suicidal impulses will take him over the edge: After > years of counselling, the retired general is still haunted by images of > the Rwandan genocide So we have a mentally ill, suicidal man supporting the UN/IANSA plan to disarm all innocent civilians, leaving the monoploly of force in the hands of governments? - -- M.J. Ackermann, MD (Mike) Rural Family Physician, Sherbrooke, NS Secretary, St. Mary's Shooters Association President, Guysborough County Horse and Pony Association Member All For Horses Association, Nova Scotia Equestrian Federation Box 13, 120 Cameron Rd. Sherbrooke, NS Canada B0J 3C0 902-522-2172 My email: mikeack@ns.sympatico.ca My Bio: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/mikeack/mikeack.htm SMSA URL: www.smsa.ca "Hope for the best, but plan for the worst". ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 12:40:38 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: [LETTER] Scrap the gun registry http://www.torontosun.com/Comment/Letters/2006/06/04/1613476.html Scrap the gun registry I am puzzled by all the attention given to the Conservatives’ plans to replace the Liberal “universal gun registry” with something smaller, more manageable, and more affordable. The panicky reactions coming from gun control lobbyists imply that registration of duck hunting guns has been the cornerstone of our entire criminal justice system for the last century. This system has only been operating fully since 2001! When the first billion spent was uncovered, the reaction was “that's money lost, we can’t get it back, it will get better now.” Now the price tag is up to $2 billion, and the same argument is being used to prop up this urban-voter-pleasing monstrosity. How many thousands of lives would have been saved had we given $2 billion to early cancer screening and detection? It’s time to put our limited funds into programs with the greatest possible benefit, not just the greatest urban political correctness appeal. Damian Kanarek Toronto (With cancer rates on the rise, the money would have been much better spent) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 12:40:59 -0600 (CST) From: "M.J. Ackermann, MD" Subject: Feedback to Mr. Volpe So, can't take a joke, eh? http://www.youthforvolpe.no-libs.com/ Too bad for you that Freedom of Speech is a basic inalienable human right. - -- M.J. Ackermann, MD (Mike) Rural Family Physician, Sherbrooke, NS Secretary, St. Mary's Shooters Association President, Guysborough County Horse and Pony Association Member All For Horses Association, Nova Scotia Equestrian Federation Box 13, 120 Cameron Rd. Sherbrooke, NS Canada B0J 3C0 902-522-2172 My email: mikeack@ns.sympatico.ca My Bio: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/mikeack/mikeack.htm SMSA URL: www.smsa.ca "Hope for the best, but plan for the worst". ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 12:41:39 -0600 (CST) From: Edward Hudson Subject: Life yields only to the conqueror "Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy." Dag Hammarskjold (29 July 1905 - 18 September 1961) Secretary-General of the United Nations April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dag_hammarskjold.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 12:42:27 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Subject: June Appleseed Shoot ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization June 4, 2006 JPFO ALERT: June Appleseed Shoot Interested in promoting shooting tradition and marksmanship? Join the Revolutionary War Veterans Association (www.rwva.org) and the United States Concealed Carry Association (www.uscca.us) for the June 2006 "Appleseed" Shoot. As described in our previous alert at http://www.jpfo.org/alert20051110.htm , Project Appleseed is a series of shooting events designed to find or create facilities and resources to allow every able and willing citizen to learn to shoot a rifle safely and well, and to do so close to home. (For more information on Project Appleseed, go to http://www.rwva.org/ and click on "Project Appleseed" in the left sidebar. ) The RWVA/USCCA shoot will be held June 17 - 18 at the West Bend-Barton Sportsman's Club in West Bend, WI ( see map at http://www.jpfo.org/200606appleseed.pdf ). This is Father's Day weekend, so what better gift for Dad than two days of shooting? ( it sure beats a new tie!) Whether you want to volunteer assistance or simply participate, we encourage anyone able to attend to do so. For more information, or if you have questions, please visit www.rwva.org, or the RWVA blog at http://rwva.blogspot.com . You can also read or download our interview with one of the founders of RWVA at http://www.jpfo.org/tta060330.htm . This is a great opportunity to help bring back the spirit of the American rifleman. Don't miss it! - - The Liberty Crew PS Several readers have expressed interest in the Wall Street Journal article on the IRS mentioned in our May 26 alert (http://www.jpfo.org/alert20060526.htm). The article, published May 24, 2006, can be viewed in PDF format at http://www.jpfo.org/wsjirs.pdf . If you'd like an indepth look at the sordid history of the IRS and the federal income tax, we highly recommend the Aaron Russo production _America: Freedom to Fascism_ (http://www.freedomtofascism.com ). ============================================================ 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. 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Fax: 1-262-673-9746 Web: http://www.jpfo.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 12:53:51 -0600 (CST) From: Edward Hudson Subject: Kiwi Help Needed Kiwi Help Needed: URL for: Taylor v New Zealand Poultry Board, [1984] 2N.Z.L.R. 394 Referred to by Beverley McLachlin, CJ, SCC in "Unwritten Constitutional Principles: What is Going On ? given at the 2005 Lord Cooke Lecture Wellington, New Zealand, 01 December 2005 Thanks. Sincerely, Eduardo ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 15:00:00 -0600 (CST) From: "mred" Subject: Re: Feedback to Mr. Volpe - ----- Original Message ----- From: "M.J. Ackermann, MD" > So, can't take a joke, eh? > > http://www.youthforvolpe.no-libs.com/ > > Too bad for you that Freedom of Speech is a basic inalienable human right. He cant handle the TRUTH~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!........Hes a Liberal~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!! ed/ontario ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:05:39 -0600 (CST) From: "Jim Thacker" Subject: Perceptions > I don't doubt that these women sincerely believe that their spouses > were going to kill them, but you and I both know that this is going to > be deliberately misconstrued as these 346 women would 100% definitely > have been killed, when such a statement cannot be supported (and isn't > supported by the facts). If what you say is true, [it is going to be construed that these 346 women would 100% definitely have been killed], this is not based on the validity of what was said, but more on the nuts getting a hold of it and twisting it to their advantage. Nothing we can do about that except be sure they do not get away with it. But that is not a reason to disagree with what the survey and conclusions say. > This strikes me as being along the same lines as the Kellermann "43 > times" study: "in homes where there has been a gun death, you are 43 > times more likely to be shot if you are a relative than an intruder". > We all know that this is bogus crapola, but that doesn't stop the > antis from regurgitating it time after time after time... As to the similarity to the Kellermann study, not exactly. The Kellerman study suggested it was more dangerous to have a gun (inanamated object) in your home than not, based on the fact that when a homicide was committed, it was more likely that there was a gun in the home. Flawed, yes, on many levels, one being the assumtion of causation. Having a gun in the house causes violent behaviour. As many here have rightly pointed out it is rather difficult for an inanimate object to cause anything. In the present situation, having a relationship with some lunatic (not an inanimate object) that abused them ..... it is safe to conclude that most women who go to shelters fear for their life. Causation here is a little easier to accept (being abused by someone causes you to fear them and for some, given the nature of the abuse, they fear for their life). But of course it is not garuenteed. In behavioural reaearch, as we all know, we are never 100% sure. James W Thacker Professor Odette School of Business University of Windsor Windsor Ontario Hunting tip: You can duplicate the warmth of a down filled sleeping bag by climbing into a plastic garbage bag with several geese. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:06:30 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: BREITKREUZ IN QUESTION PERIOD BREITKREUZ IN QUESTION PERIOD http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/inthehouse/oral2006.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:06:41 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: South Africans 'lose' 50,000 guns BBC NEWS South Africans 'lose' 50,000 guns http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5040462.stm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:07:00 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: Leader Post Editorial: Harper shows political skills PUBLICATION: The Leader-Post (Regina) DATE: 2006.06.05 EDITION: Final SECTION: Viewpoints PAGE: B7 SOURCE: The Leader-Post WORD COUNT: 671 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Harper shows political skills - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In Brief: The minority Conservative government is showing political acumen that few observers guessed it possessed. When Progressive Conservative Joe Clark became prime minister with a minority government 27 years ago, he clearly stated he intended to govern "as if he had a minority". Barely six months later, that dream collapsed when Clark's parliamentary managers failed to accurately count the number of MPs for, and against, the government's first budget -- and the government fell. Today, the Conservative minority government in power in Ottawa has far better math skills and tactical sense. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shied away from a budget confrontation and instead focused on building political support through a series of high emotional impact, low-cost legislative proposals carefully structured to charm wary voters. It's audacious and it's unorthodox -- and it seems to be working. Recent polls have given the Conservatives the support of around 42 per cent of voters, which is within range of a small majority if an election was to be held tomorrow. The party is doing particularly well in Quebec, where the Conservatives had been shut out since the departure of Brian Mulroney and where the Reform/Alliance never had much support. Harper & Co. are showing themselves to be as politically skillful as any government in recent memory. Take, for instance, Justice Minister Vic Toews' proposals to increase sentences for gun crime and parole violations: they play on the emotions of urban voters worried by violent crime. Whether this is good policy is unclear: opponents say these changes will fill up Canadian jails, where criminals tutor each other, and thus will ultimately make the long-term crime situation worse. However, such critics are clearly in the minority; many voters, worried and fretful, like these "get-tough" proposals. Other examples are Harper's recent plans to alter the nature of the Senate and set fixed dates for general elections. The Senate has been decried so often, and so loudly, as a haven for old political cronies that the present way of appointing senators has few articulate defenders. But the proposal is much more complicated than it seems: who will elect senators? Who will be eligible? Is the proposed eight-year Senate term too long or too short? Will incumbent senators keep their jobs or will they somehow be pushed out? Will the Senate hereafter contain two classes of senators: old "legacy" senators and the new elected ones? And why bother with such a change now? "Not that many people are phoning me on a regular basis in Saskatchewan, getting up in the morning, saying, 'we wonder how long the senators are going to be there,'" said Premier Lorne Calvert. True, but seizing on this issue allows Harper's government to give the impression of hard work and sweeping reform. And while the idea of fixed election dates has a certain appeal to many Canadians, dazed and confused by two federal general elections in the last 24 months, there has been little clamour for change. So why is Harper's government moving with such speed to change it? Because, again, it gives the impression of dramatic change. This proposal, in particular, is a massive alteration to the political system that has existed in Canada for the last 139 years and in Britain for centuries before it. Perhaps it is because Harper is the most audacious reformer in Canadian political history -- or perhaps he sees it as an emotional hot-button issue with some -- perhaps a great deal of -- popular support and few "downsides" for him. Harper's aggressiveness prompted one columnist at the Toronto Star to perceptively quip that "Harper, despite his minority status, is more self-confident than most self-declared presidents-for-life." The same pattern is discernible in the government's plan to remove "long guns" (rifles and shotguns, which tend to be found on farms) from the federal gun registry. That will assuage the millions of law-abiding Canadians who feel they are being punished for the sins of drug-dealing gangsters in big cities. But keeping the registry alive to track handguns (used by urban criminals) plays well in places like Toronto and Montreal, where citizens are mesmerized by gun crime. It is a skillful compromise that keeps everybody happy. Harper and his government are a "fast study". Fractious in opposition, his party has passed its first five months in office with political skills no outsider guessed it possessed. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V9 #487 ********************************** 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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