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 #570 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 26 2006 Volume 09 : Number 570 In this issue: Letter to the Editor (Fort McMurray Newspaper) response from Toronto Star Re: UGANDA: Extinguishing the fire of small arms Re: Looking for a direct link to Wendy Letter to the Editor re: "is Harper trading guns for votes" Letter to the Editor Letter to the Editor Re: Armed and dangerous Re: UGANDA: Extinguishing the fire of small arms Re: [LETTER] A judgment call One Gun for Every 10 People, Enough Bullets to Kill Us All Project Ploughshares founder wins peace award CONFÉRENCE DE L'ONU SUR LES ARMES LÉGERES My letter to the Hamilton Spectator ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:19:20 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher di Armani Subject: Letter to the Editor (Fort McMurray Newspaper) re: Bid to end long-gun registry applauded David Todd, president of the Fort McMurray Fish and Game Association, is clearly out of touch with the Criminal Code of Canada and the Firearms Act. He needs to read C.C. Sections 91 and 92. These two sections prohibit the possession of firearms in Canada. Period. He should then read the sections of the Firearms Act that allow a Minster of Justice or Public Safety to determine the rules for obtaining a firearms license, set the fees for said license, and spell out that the Minister of Justice and Public Safety can revoke any and ALL firearms licenses in Canada AT ANY TIME. Bill C-21 does NOTHING to make gun owners lives easier. Read it. Registration of all long guns continues... it's just the owner doesn't have to carry the little piece of paper with him any more. If that's an improvement in his eyes, he needs glasses. Yours in Liberty, Christopher di Armani christopher@diArmani.com Licensing Gun Owners has done NOTHING to make Canada safer. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:19:58 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher di Armani Subject: response from Toronto Star Below is the response I received from the editor of the Toronto Star regarding my rebuttal article to the anti-gun diatribe of Dianne Rinehart: - --- Christoppher: As a matter of policy, and for a number of reasons, we do not publish rebuttal columns. One of the main reasons is to get a quick response from readers into the paper. The avenue for that is the letters page. I invite you to resubmit your piece as a letter to the editor. The maximum length for letters is 350 words; enough, I believe, to get your point across. Jim Atkins Opinions page editor - --- Nice... so she gets all the ink she wants to spread her lies.... we get squat. :( I'll be re-submitting a shorter piece anyways... but that's "journalism" in Canada for ya... Yours in Liberty, Christopher di Armani christopher@diArmani.com Licensing Gun Owners has done NOTHING to make Canada safer. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:20:33 -0600 (CST) From: "Boyd Kneeland" Subject: Re: UGANDA: Extinguishing the fire of small arms "The REAL problem is the peope who sell the guns .Like Th e US France Russia China etc." I'd beg to differ: The problem is violent people who point guns at innocent people and pull the trigger. The further we get away from that, the more we tell those violent people that they're not to blame. The further we get away from that, the closer we get to blaming the implements used instead of the users of the implements. The whole IANSA argument is a setup for the UN to "control" who has the right of self defence (through controlling the means) this kind of concentration of power should scare the bejeebies out of even the most irrational hopolophobe. Just my humble opinion. Boyd Kneeland ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:37:32 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Re: Looking for a direct link to Wendy Frank Cochrane wrote: > You can request a full set of financials so it says on page 51 also. > That should have a better breakdown of where large lump sums were > dispersed if there are any. > > It was hard to stomach reading the annual report and all its touchy > feely, lets sit down and praise Wendy crap in it. > > Frank Cochrane Can't we get a copy of the CFGC's financial report through an Access to Information Act request? It's a registered Corporation, and it used to be a registered lobby group (how they get away with not registering now is beyond me) - as such, shouldn't this be in the public domain? Yours in Liberty, Bruce Hamilton Ontario ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:37:52 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher di Armani Subject: Letter to the Editor re: "is Harper trading guns for votes" re: "is Harper trading guns for votes" Every time the thought of killing the sacred cow (the gun registry) surfaces, along comes someone like Dianne Rinehart trotting out the same tired old excuses for keeping it alive. Steadfastly ignoring all evidence proving how useless the system is, Dianne spouts more anti-gun rhetoric, expecting everyone to bow down before her great wisdom. So let's not confuse her with the facts, such as Canada's Firearms Act is documented as having caused at least one death. Martin Angnatok's murder shines the light of reality on the charade of "gun control". Martin's murderer has NEVER faced trial for killing the 15-year-old. "It's not in the public interest", they claim. The four RCMP officers slain in Meyerthorpe, AB on March 23, 2005 paid the highest possible price for gun control. James Rozko easily obtained all the guns he wanted, despite a firearms prohibition. So exactly HOW did the Firearms Act prevent Rozko from killing four RCMP officers? It CAN'T. What nobody supporting Canada's Firearms Act wants to face is the ugly truth that not a single violent offender is affected by the Act. Why? The Firearms Act applies ONLY to the law-abiding, the hunters, target shooters and gun collectors. Violent criminals prohibited from owning firearms are completely ignored by Canada's Firearms Act. "But police access the registry over 6,500 times every day!" Rinehart shouts. (A few months ago it was 2,000, then 5,000...now it's magically up to 6,500.) The government itself says this statistic is bogus. These "accesses" are automated, so if you're pulled over for speeding it generates a request to the registry. Useless, but hey, it makes a great statistic shouted from the rooftops. Pity it doesn't actually mean anything... We've registered handguns in Canada since 1934. What is the result of 72 years of pistol registration? A brief look at downtown Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver screams the answer. Handgun registration has done absolutely NOTHING to keep guns out of the hands of violent criminals. Oh yeah, I forgot. You can't say that out loud. - --30-- Christopher di Armani P.O. Box 507 Lytton, BC VOK 1Z0 Phone: 250-455-2332 Email: christopher@diArmani.com Address and phone number provided for verification only ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:38:13 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher di Armani Subject: Letter to the Editor re: "Keep the gun registry" (Kitchener-Waterloo Record, June 22, 2006) Your editorial board should really do their homework before spouting off the same, tired old rhetoric Liberals have used for years. Calling "weak and superficial" the fact that law-abiding people, good citizens of this nation, do not pose a threat to society" is at best, rude and appalling. Your apparent contention that somehow criminals are NOT a threat is even worse! What is plain to any thinking human being remains an enigma to Liberals, urban dwellers and apparently your editorial staff: the belief that we will magically curtail violent criminals and their actions by attacking the law-abiding citizens of Canada is absurd in the extreme. Licensing firearm owners and registering their guns has NOT made Canada a safer place. Only a thoroughly self-deluded person could possibly believe that by curtailing the rights of the nation's most law-abiding and government-vetted citizens can we somehow stop violent criminals from shooting up our streets. As for police relying on the registry when entering a house, if they are willing to trust their lives to a system that has a well-documented error rate of over 50%, they clearly need their heads examined. Any thinking police officer automatically presumes such a situation is dangerous until it is PROVEN to be otherwise. Failure to act in such a manner will needlessly cost them their life. Valerie Gignac, the Quebec Provincial Police officer slain recently while attending just such a call, testifies to that. The violent criminal elements of our society are who we should keep tabs on, NOT millions and millions of law-abiding people who never have been the problem. And guess what? These violent criminals are precisely the people the Firearms Act takes great pains to ignore. You go on to state "Furthermore, if Day really believes the government should not register long guns, why doesn't he apply the same logic to handguns?" Despite your objections, this is EXACTLY what Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day should do. Do we need any more proof than the past 72 years of handgun registration? Clearly that stunning failure has had such a profound effect on gun crime in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and even Kitchener! Yours in Liberty, Christopher di Armani christopher@diArmani.com Licensing Gun Owners has done NOTHING to make Canada safer. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:38:30 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher di Armani Subject: Letter to the Editor re: Agenda of Action (Winnipeg Sun, June 22, 2006) Kudos for your editorial on the Conservative's "agenda of action", and pointing out the stupidity of the licensing and registration scheme the Liberals call "gun control" What is plain as day to any thinking human being remains an enigma to Liberals and apparently most urban dwellers: that somehow we will curtail violent criminals and their actions by attacking the law-abiding citizens of Canada. Only a thoroughly self-deluded person can possibly believe that by curtailing the rights of the nation's most law-abiding can we somehow stop violent criminals from shooting up our streets. The violent criminal elements of our society are who we should keep tabs on, NOT millions and millions of law-abiding people who never have been the problem. And guess what? These are precisely the people the Firearms Act takes great pains to ignore. Licensing firearm owners and registering their guns has NOT made Canada a safer place. It has done the opposite. Do we need any more proof than 72 years of handgun registration? Clearly that stunning success (ha!) has had such a profound effect on gun crime in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Winnipeg! Yours in Liberty, Christopher di Armani christopher@diArmani.com Licensing Gun Owners has done NOTHING to make Canada safer. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:39:05 -0600 (CST) From: "mred" Subject: Re: Armed and dangerous - ----- Original Message ----- > http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1151273414447&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1112101662670 > > Armed and dangerous > The Associated Press File Photo What this article says to me ?; Is that its ok to sell guns to governments who may or may not oppress their citizens ? but its not ok to sell to any who oppose oppression in any from. The jewish defence League should be on these people like white on rice.. Who would know better what happens when the opposition is disarmed? ed/ontario ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:42:12 -0600 (CST) From: "mred" Subject: Re: UGANDA: Extinguishing the fire of small arms - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boyd Kneeland" > "The REAL problem is the peope who sell the guns .Like Th e US France > Russia China etc." > > I'd beg to differ: The problem is violent people who point guns at > innocent people and pull the trigger. The further we get away from that, > the more we tell those violent people that they're not to blame. The > further we get away from that, the closer we get to blaming the > implements used instead of the users of the implements. > > The whole IANSA argument is a setup for the UN to "control" who has the > right of self defence (through controlling the means) this kind of > concentration of power should scare the bejeebies out of even the most > irrational hopolophobe. Just my humble opinion. > Boyd Kneeland I cant say as I agree with your post ? If you were oppressed by a dictator other than the benevolent dictators we have in Canada ? say in Uganda?Tanzania, etc.,, wouldnt you like to be armed to defend yourself ? ed/ontario ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:42:38 -0600 (CST) From: "mred" Subject: Re: [LETTER] A judgment call - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Mills" > http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1151273414161&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1112876262536 > > A judgment call > > By Bruce N. Mills, Dundas > The Hamilton Spectator > (Jun 26, 2006) > > Re: 'Court's hands tied in sentencing' (June 23) > > Why is it that when judges agree with one law or another, they say that > their "hands are tied" and they are "constrained by the legislation?" > But when it's a law they don't agree with, suddenly it would "remove > their discretion" and "impair their independence." Do I smell hypocrisy > in the air? Short and sweet seems to be the answer to getting published . ed/ontario> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:05:03 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: One Gun for Every 10 People, Enough Bullets to Kill Us All PanAfrica: One Gun for Every 10 People, Enough Bullets to Kill Us All Twice The East African (Nairobi) June 26, 2006 Posted to the web June 26, 2006 http://allafrica.com/stories/200606260498.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:05:30 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: Project Ploughshares founder wins peace award PUBLICATION: The Record (Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo) DATE: 2006.06.26 EDITION: Final SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B8 BYLINE: DAYLE PARKER SOURCE: RECORD STAFF DATELINE: WATERLOO REGION WORD COUNT: 311 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Project Ploughshares founder wins peace award - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A local man joins notable Canadians such as Stephen Lewis and Lester Pearson with the honour of winning the 2006 Canada World Peace Award. Project Ploughshares co-founder Ernie Regehr received the prestigious award from the Canadian chapter of the World Federalist Movement at a ceremony in Vancouver last week. "I don't quite know what to say about it," said Regehr via telephone from Geneva. "There's some very prestigious people who have received this award earlier, so I'm very pleased and flattered," he said. Regehr helped form Project Ploughshares in 1976 to influence political bodies into building peaceful policies, and to resolve political conflict and prevent war. Regehr is currently a senior policy adviser for Project Ploughshares, which is an agency of the Canadian Council of Churches. He was executive director for almost 30 years before stepping down last year. Regehr is also an adjunct associate professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Waterloo's Conrad Grebel University College, and has written extensively on international peace and security issues. "He's a prominent figure in the peace movement -- not just in Canada but internationally," said Fergus Watt, Executive Director of the World Federalist Movement's Canadian chapter. Watt said Regehr stood out for the award because of his peace work in the horn of Africa, and also for pioneering the push to regulate small arms and weapons trade internationally, which began in the early 1990s. "He's the kind of person that people rely on -- when there's a new issue percolating and something comes out that Ernie's written, it gets attention. "And so, a lot of Canadian activists appreciate his thinking and his advice. He's made a really solid contribution for a long time," said Watt. The award will be presented in a ceremony as part of the World Peace Forum, which runs until Wednesday in Vancouver. Regehr joins other Canada World Peace Award notables such as Pearson, Lewis, Louise Arbour, Lloyd Axworthy and Romeo Dallaire. The World Federalist Movement is an international organization based in New York City that campaigns for global human rights. The Canadian chapter is based in Ottawa and was founded in 1951. dparker@therecord.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:05:53 -0600 (CST) From: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Majordomo User) Subject: CONFÉRENCE DE L'ONU SUR LES ARMES LÉGERES PUBLICATION: La Presse DATE: 2006.06.26 SECTION: Nouvelles générales PAGE: A1 SOURCE: Collaboration spéciale BYLINE: Hétu, Richard PHOTO: AP DATELINE: New York ILLUSTRATION: L'AK-47 servira de symbole aux promoteurs d'une campagnedont l'objectif est de réduire la prolifération et l'utilisation abusive des fusils d'assaut et autres armes légères, qui tuent 1000 personnes par jour. WORD COUNT: 744 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFÉRENCE DE L'ONU SUR LES ARMES LÉGERES; L'AK-47, le plus grand tueur du monde - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- On le voit partout. Entre les mains des enfants soldats du Congo, dans celles des narcotrafiquants du Mexique, des gangsters des États-Unis et des miliciens de l'Irak. On le fabrique en Russie, sa terre natale, et on le copie, sous licence, dans une quinzaine de pays, dont la Chine, l'Allemagne, l'Égypte, la Corée du Nord, la Roumanie et le Venezuela. Créé lors de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, l'AK-47, souvent connu sous le nom de kalachnikov, n'a rien perdu de sa notoriété. Au contraire, le fusil d'assaut et ses dérivés continuent à proliférer. Sur les cinq continents, entre 50 et 70 millions d'exemplaires sont aujourd'hui en circulation, selon un document qui sera présenté ce matin à New York, où s'ouvrira une conférence de l'ONU sur le commerce illicite des armes légères. " Les kalachnikovs sont les armes militaires les plus répandues au monde ", soulignent les auteurs du document, que La Presse a obtenu. On s'en sert dans plusieurs pays pour " massacrer, estropier, violer, torturer et alimenter la violence criminelle ", précisent les auteurs. Le document est signé par les trois organisations qui ont lancé, en 2003, la campagne mondiale Contrôlez les armes: Amnistie internationale, Oxfam International et le Réseau d'action international sur les armes légères. A New York, l'AK-47 servira donc de symbole aux promoteurs de cette campagne, dont l'objectif est de réduire la prolifération et l'utilisation abusive des fusils d'assaut et autres armes légères, qui tuent 1000 personnes par jour. L'ONU poursuivra le même but en accueillant, jusqu'au 7 juillet, quelque 2000 représentants de gouvernements et d'organisations diverses. Le secrétaire général, Kofi Annan, participera d'ailleurs ce matin à une conférence de presse au cours de laquelle les organisateurs de la campagne Contrôlez les armes lui présenteront une pétition réclamant des lois plus efficaces pour limiter la circulation des armes légères. On estime à plus de 600 millions le nombre de ces armes dans le monde. Le titre officiel du rendez-vous onusien ne se distingue pas par sa brièveté: Conférence des Nations unies chargée d'examiner les progrès accomplis dans l'exécution du Programme d'action en vue de prévenir, combattre et éliminer le commerce illicite des armes légères sous tous ses aspects. Le programme d'action en question a été adopté en juillet 2001 à l'issue de la première conférence de l'ONU sur le commerce illicite des armes légères. Il contient 85 points. A l'échelle mondiale, par exemple, les 130 États participants ont convenu de coopérer avec l'ONU afin d'assurer l'application des embargos sur les armes décidés par le Conseil de sécurité. Or, les embargos sur les armes ont été " systématiquement violés " au cours des cinq dernières années, selon un rapport publié en mars dans le cadre de la campagne Contrôlez les armes. " Le programme d'action de l'ONU n'a pas été appliqué de façon assez profonde et uniforme ", a reconnu le chercheur canadien Ken Epps au cours d'un entretien téléphonique. Coordonnateur de programme à l'ONG Project Ploughshares, Epps sera à la conférence onusienne, où il aura le statut de conseiller de la délégation canadienne. Malgré l'arrivée d'un gouvernement conservateur à Ottawa, il s'attend à une participation " active " du Canada, notamment sur la question des exportations d'armes, un des principaux chevaux de bataille de la campagne Contrôlez les armes. Selon les promoteurs de cette campagne, les États devraient accepter à New York cinq principes globaux, dont celui de ne pas autoriser les exportations d'armes qui violent les obligations posées par le droit international en matière d'armement. Sur ce plan, le Canada prête lui-même à la critique en vendant des armes aux États-Unis sans connaître leur destination finale. " Ce qui est vendu aux États-Unis échappe à tout contrôle ", soutient Anne Sainte-Marie, porte-parole de la section canadienne francophone d'Amnistie internationale. La campagne Contrôlez les armes continuera aussi à New York sa lutte pour l'adoption d'un traité international sur le commerce des armes. Selon ses promoteurs, l'adoption d'un tel traité permettrait de réduire le coût humain des exportations irresponsables et empêcherait des marchands d'armes sans scrupules de trouver des failles dans le système. Petites armes de destruction massive La conférence de l'ONU portera sur le commerce illicite des armes légères et des armes portatives. Selon la définition de l'ONU, les armes légères sont conçues pour un usage individuel tandis que les armes portatives sont manipulées par une équipe. Les revolvers, les pistolets à chargement automatique, les fusils, les mitraillettes, les fusils d'assaut et les mitrailleuses légères se classent parmi les armes légères. Les mitrailleuses lourdes, les mortiers, les grenades à main, les lance-grenades, les canon aériens portatifs, les canons antichars portatifs et les lance-missiles portatifs entrent dans la catégorie des armes portatives. On estime que de 50 à 60% du commerce mondial d'armes légères est légal, mais les armes exportées en toute légalité finissent souvent sur le marché illicite. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:22:37 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: My letter to the Hamilton Spectator Just submitted, not yet printed. Have you written a letter today? - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Armed and dangerous Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:21:59 -0400 From: Bruce Mills To: Editor - Hamilton Spectator Anti-Gun Lobbyist Wendy Cukier laments the fact that the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action has been finally granted a place as an NGO at the UN table, under the auspices of the Department of Foreign Affairs. This, she no doubt believes, is one of the signs of the Apocalypse. What Wendy doesn't want your readers to know is that she and her anti-gun dog and pony show have been tossed off the government's gravy train, herself. Under the former Liberal regime, Wendy was sent on junkets around the world to tout and shill for their ideologically driven program of stripping law abiding citizens of their rights, and their legally possessed arms. She was reimbursed for her travel expenses and even had several "contracts" - worth a half a million of our tax dollars - with the Federal Liberal government of ephemeral, or even unknown, results. No, fortunately, things don't look too optimistic for Wendy. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V9 #570 ********************************** 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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