Cdn-Firearms Digest Thursday, April 29 2010 Volume 13 : Number 840 In this issue: Winnipeg Freep - 10% of violent crime victims hurt by knives Re: Edmonton Journal - Letter - Type of gun matters Do you support the long gun registry? Confound your enemies . Texas governor shoots, kills 'wily' coyote during jog Good reading. Finley Career Criminal - Life For Ammo Possession - The Tactical Wire Re: Texas governor shoots, kills 'wily' coyote during jog RE: Texas governor shoots, kills 'wily' coyote during jog Winnipeg Sun - Morden raid nets arms, ammo cache ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:31:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Winnipeg Freep - 10% of violent crime victims hurt by knives http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/10-of-violent-crime-victims-hurt-by-knives-92291584.html 10% of violent crime victims hurt by knives Winnipeg leads country: StatsCan By: Gabrielle Giroday 28/04/2010 1:00 AM They're still there on her lower back, two scars that tell the story of the night she was stabbed. Charisse Fredette, 19, is one of over 1,000 Winnipeggers who was robbed, threatened or attacked with a knife in 2008. The city led the country in violent crimes involving a knife, according to a Statistics Canada study released Tuesday. The report says that knives -- or other sharp objects like broken bottles, screw drivers, scissors or nail guns -- are the most common weapons used across Canada in violent crimes like assaults and robberies. For victims like Fredette, the experience was terrifying. "You don't feel nothing at first. Then you feel a sharp pain," said Fredette, who was stabbed on the Slaw Rebchuk Bridge in August 2008 by a man and a teenage girl. "I was scared for my organs inside, if they hit that, or if they hit my spine. "I think about it all the time, like at night when I'm walking around... I don't trust nobody." In Winnipeg, 10 per cent of all victims of violent crimes were either injured or threatened by someone with a knife. That's higher than the national average of six per cent. Guns are involved in about two per cent of all violent crimes in Canada. The cities with the highest rates of knife violent are located in Western Canada, with Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver all trailing Winnipeg. Statistics Canada senior analyst Mia Dauvergne said the rate of violent crimes involving knives stayed "relatively stable" over the last decade. It's the first time that Statistics Canada has done a study specifically on knives and violent crime in Canada, following a spate of high-profile knife-related attacks like the Greyhound bus beheading of Tim McLean in July 2008. The report uses statistics that police across the country collected in 2008. The report also notes that youths and young adults -- from 12 to 24 years old -- are most likely to commit violent crime with knives. "Youth and young adults may use knives instead of other weapons such as firearms, because they are readily accessible and more easily concealed," said the report. For example, a 13-year-old girl who is currently facing a charge of assault with a weapon in connection with a North End stabbing last December told the Free Press she hurt another girl after her friend gave her a kitchen knife. She said she can't recall her precise motivations for the attack, but now regrets it. "I was mad," she said. The girl is still before the courts and has no contact with the victim. Winnipeg Police Service spokesman Const. Jason Michalyshen said it may be easier for people to obtain weapons like knives, compared with guns. In Fredette's case, she didn't realize she'd been stabbed until she walked about a block and felt a sharp pain, blood soaking her black sweater. She recovered at hospital but now avoids walking alone at night around the city's core area. She survived the ordeal after friends chased the pair of attackers off. Meanwhile, Statistics Canada said Manitoba also led the country in robberies in 2008. There were 158 recorded robberies per 100,000 people -- more than second-place Saskatchewan at 128, British Columbia at 123 and Alberta at 105. All other provinces were below 100 per 100,000 people. gabrielle.giroday@freepress.mb.ca letters@freepress.mb.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:36:29 -0400 From: "bletchleypark" Subject: Re: Edmonton Journal - Letter - Type of gun matters What utter [censored]! Maybe Mr.Curry will explain why it is that if a person is holding a hostage with only a kitchen knife (no registry), the home will be surrounded with 'black ninja's' armed with full automatic weapons and level 1V ballistic plated vests. The police do not differentiate between levels of perceived threat. They respond at the highest level to any weapon threat. As a retired member of the RCMP, Mr. Curry should know that. - ----- Original Message ------------------------------------ From: "Bruce Mills" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 7:42 AM Subject: Edmonton Journal - Letter - Type of gun matters > http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Type+matters/2955273/story.html > > Type of gun matters > > Edmonton Journal > April 27, 2010 > > The Conservative government's policy on long gun control is that a person > would still have to register to be in possession of a long gun, but the > gun or more guns would not have to be registered. > > I am a retired member of the RCMP and did my police work before the gun > registry came into effect. There were occasions when information > available through the present gun registry system would have been > helpful. > > It is not only important to know that there is a firearm in a building, > but also the type and number of firearms, for police and public safety. > This latter point is what opponents of gun registry miss completely. It > is important because different precautions have to be taken. > > For example, there is a big difference between dealing with someone with > a single-shot, 22-calibre rifle and a high-powered, semi-automatic rifle. > > Kenneth D. Curry, > Sherwood Park ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:48:57 -0400 From: Daryl LaBine Subject: Do you support the long gun registry? Do you support the long gun registry? Yes 5% 1286 No 95% 23692 CTV news poll as of 28 April, 2010 at 17:48 http://www.ctv.ca/qp/ [AsstMod-RAM: Poll is still active. Massive response against the Registry is almost a Mandate!] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:56:54 -0700 From: Len Miller Subject: Confound your enemies . Cc: Kerry Kuran , bill kushniryk The Editor, The Winnipeg Sun, Sir . with regards to the snippy snide remarks to both Mike Cummings ( Edmonton ) and (Guns aren't the answer to everything. You act like they are.) and Bill Kushniryk ( Swan River ) (Still, there's a fine line between self-defence and vigilantism.) as if they, not you . . are completely stupid. These two gentlemen gave reasoned opinion on why one should possess a firearm, and what answer do they get . . sarcasm from you. I would encourage the Sun to learn the difference between self defence and vigilantism, before you continue to smear others. You are a news source, one that owes respect to your readers . . As a corporate entity, you owe your public respect . . . not sarcasm. Len Miller veteran, Det. retired Vancouver Police Department . . who says: firearms are more of a necessity today, than they have ever been. Unless, of course, you are the Bacon brothers, and the courts are in over their heads. John Lott: more guns . . less crime . (unable to contact Mr. Cummings) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, April 28, 2010 4:06 pm From: "Dennis & Hazel Young" Subject: Texas governor shoots, kills 'wily' coyote during jog THE WASHINGTON POST - APRIL 27, 2010 Texas gov. shoots, kills 'wily' coyote during jog By JIM VERTUNO, The Associated Press, Tuesday, April 27, 2010; 7:55 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/27/AR2010042704373_pf.html AUSTIN, Texas -- Pistol-packing Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a message for wily coyotes out there: Don't mess with my dog. Perry told The Associated Press on Tuesday he needed just one shot from the laser-sighted pistol he sometimes carries while jogging to take down a coyote that menaced his puppy during a February run near Austin. Perry said he will carry his .380 Ruger - loaded with hollow-point bullets - - when jogging on trails because he is afraid of snakes. He'd also seen coyotes in the undeveloped area. When one came out of the brush toward his daughter's Labrador retriever, Perry charged. "Don't attack my dog or you might get shot ... if you're a coyote," he said Tuesday. Perry, a Republican running for a third full term against Democrat Bill White, is living in a private house in a hilly area southwest of downtown Austin while the Governor's Mansion is being repaired after a 2008 fire. A concealed handgun permit holder, Perry carries the pistol in a belt. "I knew there were a lot of predators out there. You'll hear a pack of coyotes. People are losing small cats and dogs all the time out there in that community," Perry said. "They're very wily creatures." On this particular morning, Perry said, he was jogging without his security detail shortly after sunrise. "I'm enjoying the run when something catches my eye and it's this coyote. I know he knows I'm there. He never looks at me, he is laser-locked on that dog," Perry said. "I holler and the coyote stopped. I holler again. By this time I had taken my weapon out and charged it. It is now staring dead at me. Either me or the dog are in imminent danger. I did the appropriate thing and sent it to where coyotes go," he said. Perry said the laser-pointer helped make a quick, clean kill. "It was not in a lot of pain," he said. "It pretty much went down at that particular juncture." Texas state law allows people to shoot coyotes that are threatening livestock or domestic animals. The dog was unharmed, Perry said. Perry's security detail was not required to file a report about the governor discharging a weapon, said Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange. "People shoot coyotes all the time, snakes all the time," Mange said. "We don't write reports." The governor left the coyote where it fell. "He became mulch," Perry said. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:07:45 -0300 From: jim hill Subject: Good reading. I found this on bourque.org the other day. I requested the author grant permission for me to submit it to the Digest. "If you go to the website provided there is the beginnings of some good discussion. Jim Hill http://alexgtsakumis.com/2010/04/26/ignatieff-playing-with-the-trigger-while-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-barrel-as-harper-valley-begins-to-flood/ Ignatieff Playing with the Trigger While On the Wrong Side of the Barrel, As Harper Valley Begins to Flood Is it so implausible that a nationwide apathy about going to the polls is because Canadians are much more intelligent than those they have entrusted with the keys to the country? I think not. I am absolutely flabbergasted by the woolly-headedness of not just the Leader of the Opposition, but the Prime Minister too. Last week, Baron Iffy gave the clearest indication that if you live in rural Canada, you're about as welcome in the Liberal fold as a fart in a space suit. After badly botching the long-gun registry issue, he then went on to show what breathtaking inanity he and his party would bring to almost any economic file. Having had the benefit of seeing Auditor General Sheila Fraser's previously released findings-that the long gun registry has been a billion dollar boondoggle, Mr. Ignatieff didn't hesitate for the nearest policy cow-pie, and planted his left Gucci firmly within. "Our intention is to fix it and keep it", he said. Brilliant. The translation (I don't speak Iffy, but, for accuracy in that dialect, I asked a Liberal friend of mine to translate while she was thoroughly drunk): "Hi I'm Mike Iffy and I'm going to straddle both sides of every issue, in classic Liberal form, so don't expect any savings on this one either. We're Liberals; after we lie to you through an election, we're going to soak you after we're done and you're stupid enough to believe us. I mean, c'mon, my crew from Rosedale has to belly-up to the trough as well, no? They're hungry for, uh, ah, um, a win! Er, I mean, of course, a better Canada..ahem" You see, the long gun registry is emblematic of the greater Liberal conundrum: They see the problem, they know there is a solution, the public are getting fleeced, but they're going to keep that problem around anyway. And why? Well, it's simple. The Liberals have grossly miscalculated. They will try to win the next election in the urban centers. If you live outside of those centers, forget it, they don't care about you-and at their peril, naturally. The long gun matter is just the chief example that this cadre of lavish has-beens, professional protesters and dizzying pretenders on the opposition bench are on the wrong end of the barrel. Every time a gun goes off in Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal, out the Liberals trot some tweedy professor from as high an ivory tower as they can locate, to tell those of us who are registered gun owners, that we shouldn't have them. Then they name the long-gun registry as key to your safety. The problem, of course, is that carrying a rifle in your pocket presents a logistical problem for most assassins, but this matters not to the Liberal pap producers. Guns are all bad and so are you if you own one. And don't even try to argue that no self-respecting gang member would be caught dead with a legally registered gun (they're very clever lads, you know). This doesn't resonate with the Liberals. Logic and reason usually don't with them. And if you think the Liberals are going to back off of the urban center strategy, think again: After Peter Donolo was hired to finesse the Liberal election machine (currently coughing up thick pillows of black soot) good strategists urging suburban strategies were jettisoned. Jatinder Rai, whom I have previously identified as a superb young organizer was pushed away here in B.C. in favor of, Heaven help the Grits, the old Mark Marissen war council, still trying to get back in the game after disastrously offering Canadians Brave Stephane, complete with dunce cap. Then there is the curious case of one Prime Minister Stubborn Hardcore, out of his box for another mummified stroll. Instead of calling Ujjal Dosanjh to offer support against extremist Sikh Neanderthals threatening him and his family; instead of leaving the abortion issue alone where it concerns the G8, the version of the PM that Liberals and the NDP love to claim exists, ran naked through the streets of Ottawa this week: Wooden, distant, insensitive, doctrinaire. Incredible. And on Tuesday to add to the Tory migraine, expect the Speaker's decision on the Afghanistan detainee documents to go against the government position-which will only make them dig in, since they missed an opportunity in November to have the Speaker declare the request out-of-order (which it was). But that would have suggested that someone in the PMO was actually paying attention and had an agenda worth talking about instead of playing defence (once again) on really important matters like Rahim Jaffer's choice of after shave or Helena Guergis' penchant for accompanying her husband to "business" dinners-with three hookers and a cornucopia of sleaze bags. So will the Speaker's decision trigger an election? The Liberals are out of money and have no plan and the Tories, sans agenda for the second consecutive annum are busy recycling year-old speaking notes. Yes, you hope for an election, you say? You really want to pick between these two incomprehensible solitudes? And here I thought you were all brighter than that. Alexander G. Tsakumis ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:10:27 -0600 From: "T.Bennett Finley" Subject: Finley A recent piece appeared in the digest written by "Doug Finley". He works for the CPC. Just to make clear to those on the digest who may know of me: Doug Finley is no relative of mine. Futhermore, no member of my Finley clan, including the New Zealand branch, is in, or has been in any political office, or related to any Finley that is in a political office. T.Bennett Finley ------------------------------ Date: Wed, April 28, 2010 10:40 pm From: "David R.G. Jordan" Subject: Career Criminal - Life For Ammo Possession - The Tactical Wire Wouldn't be ever so nice if for just once in our lifetimes "our" infamous justice system would quit mollycoddling these PoS's, [read multiple repeat felons.] and really did have the balls to just throw the keys away on these sacks! Nope, just too much money to be made by our wonderful "catch & release" penal systems for all of those so-called "professionals" that have all of those fancy letters after their names. - -DRGJ The Tactical Wire: Tuesday, April 27 Contact: info@thetacticalwire.com The Tactical Wire Archives http://www.thetacticalwire.com/archives.html To Subscribe to The Tactical Wire; http://www.thetacticalwire.com/archives.html Tuesday : April 27 : 2010 http://www.thetacticalwire.com/story/216567 Career Criminal Sentenced to Life For Ammo Possession GREENBELT, MD-U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Opio Diarra Moore, age 38, of Fort Washington, Maryland, late yesterday to life in prison, after Moore was convicted by a federal jury on December 5, 2008, of conspiracy to possess and possession of ammunition by a convicted felon. Judge Titus enhanced Moore's sentence upon finding that he was an armed career criminal, based on three previous felony drug convictions and on evidence presented at the sentencing hearing that Moore participated in other crimes of violence, including the murder of Jason Schwindler, a Dunbar armored car employee, during a robbery. Earl Davis was convicted last year in connection with the robbery and murder of Jason Schwindler. The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Theresa R. Stoop of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - Baltimore Field Division; Special Agent in Charge Richard A. McFeely of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Chief Roberto L. Hylton of the Prince George's County Police Department. "Opio Moore faced a maximum sentence of life in federal prison for purchasing ammunition in 2006, and the judge imposed the maximum sentence based in part upon preponderant evidence that Moore participated in the murder of Dunbar armored car driver Jason Schwindler in 2004." said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein. "In exercising their sentencing discretion, judges consider not just the conduct for which the defendant was found guilty, but also the defendant's criminal record and other evidence of his character. Opio Moore was sentenced to life in prison because he led a life of crime." According to evidence presented at his three day trial, on August 30, 2006, Moore met with a woman in the parking lot adjacent to the Realco gun store located in Forestville, Maryland. After a brief conversation, the woman entered the Realco gun store and a short time later, came out of the store carrying a bag which agents identified as containing a box of ammunition. Moore and the woman drove separately to a nearby shopping center. Moore got out of his vehicle and gave the woman cash in exchange for the bag containing the ammunition. Moore placed the box of ammunition in the right rear passenger area of the vehicle. Moore's vehicle was subsequently stopped in the District of Columbia. The vehicle was searched and a box containing federal .40 caliber ammunition was recovered. Moore was placed under arrest. Moore has multiple prior convictions, including three felony drug convictions, and is prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition. At the time of this arrest, Moore was on supervised release for a prior federal conviction. In imposing yesterday's life sentence, in addition to considering the evidence presented at Moore's trial proving the conspiracy to possess and possession of ammunition by a convicted felon, Judge Titus heard evidence about other relevant conduct, including a recorded jail visit between Earl Davis and Moore, information about Moore's prior conduct inside and outside of prison, and evidence about several crimes of violence, including the Schwindler homicide. Davis, age 39, of Washington D.C., was sentenced last year to life plus 35 years in prison, for robbery and using a gun in the murder of a Dunbar armored car employee, carjacking, using a gun in furtherance of the carjacking, and being a felon in possession of a gun and ammunition. United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended Assistant United States Attorneys Deborah A. Johnston and Emily N. Glatfelter, who prosecuted the case. 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Ackermann, MD (Mike) Rural Family Physician, mikeack@ns.sympatico.ca "Hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst". ** Please always use BCC and erase appended address lists when forwarding or sending to groups ** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, April 29, 2010 8:07 am From: "Dennis & Hazel Young" Subject: RE: Texas governor shoots, kills 'wily' coyote during jog Wendy's way, the woman ends up dead. The smart way, the coyote is the dead one. - -----Original Message---------------------------------------- From: M.J. Ackermann, MD [mailto:mikeack@ns.sympatico.ca] Sent: April-29-10 6:14 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Re: Texas governor shoots, kills 'wily' coyote during jog See the difference when you are encouraged to train, equip, and adopt the mindset of effective self defense? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/27/AR2010042704373_pf.html Versus http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/10/28/ns-coyote-attack-died.html - -- M.J. Ackermann, MD (Mike) Rural Family Physician, mikeack@ns.sympatico.ca "Hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst". ** Please always use BCC and erase appended address lists when forwarding or sending to groups ** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:30:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Winnipeg Sun - Morden raid nets arms, ammo cache http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/manitoba/2010/04/28/13754516.html Morden raid nets arms, ammo cache Not legally stored: town's top cop Last Updated: April 28, 2010 7:36pm http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v373/zymurgy1/morden.jpg Morden police officers, supported by firearms experts, uncovered a cache of weapons and ammunition when they raided a home in the southern Manitoba town last week. Officers found five rifles, a shotgun and about 1,000 rounds of ammunition, among other things, when they searched a home Friday, said Morden Police Service Chief Brad Neduzak. A male was arrested. It's a significant bust for a small-town police force. It's a little bit rare to find a cache of weapons like this and an assortment of ammunition like this, Neduzak said. None of the firearms or ammunition were legally stored, he said. Neduzak said the guns and ammunition were found in rooms and closets throughout the house so they were readily accessible. The suspect says he buys and sells firearms, Neduzak said. Investigators are looking into his background. Normally if you are a gun collector or buying and selling you have them properly stored and have the ammunition separate (from the firearm), Neduzak said. Morden officers conducted the raid alongside at least one Winnipeg-based member of the National Weapons Enforcement Support Team (NWEST), which assists police agencies in firearm investigations and traces firearms to find out if they were stolen or were used in a crime. Police also found a pellet rifle, which had a flashlight taped to its barrel, a replica handgun, two airsoft pistols, a machete and knives, Neduzak said. He said the replica handgun may be an airsoft pistol. If somebody pointed it at you it would look like a real gun, Neduzak said. Police said Michael John Kosmynka, 53, of Morden is charged with six counts of unauthorized possession of a firearm, five counts of careless storage of a firearm, five counts of careless storage of ammunition, and one count of tampering with a serial number. Kosmynka is scheduled to appear in court in Morden on May 11, police said. Winnipeg Sun editor@wpgsun.com ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V13 #840 *********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator's email: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca FAQ list: http://www.canfirearms/Skeeter/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://www.canfirearms.ca CFDigest Archives: http://www.canfirearms.ca/archives To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next four lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".)