MSc (@UniLeiden) on the relationship between firearm legislation and homicide. Etiam si omnes, ego non. #GSTK
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My view: the increasing radicalism of anti-gun groups, and the government's insistence on placating them at the cost of alienating gun users, is destroying Canada's gun compromise - and nobody is going to like the consequences.
My latest for @the_lineca. readtheline.ca/p/tim-thurley…
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Thunderstruck came out in 1990. I warmed up to it playing minor hockey. Unless Carney was somehow playing minor hockey two years after he got his bachelor's degree, he definitely didn't.
Mark Carney has come to meet auto parts workers at Martinrea in Vaughan, ON, and he walked out to Thunderstuck by AC/DC, which Carney said was his “warm up tune” when he played minor hockey.
Martinrea apparently always plays AC/DC when they have politicians come #cdnpoli
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"Finland plans to open more than 300 new shooting ranges to encourage more citizens to take up the hobby in the interest of national defence."
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Canada's civilian gun culture should be part of our defence plan. My latest for The Line.
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It's hard to remember now, but there was once a time when ministers would resign.
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"Ukrainians showed interest in an “extremely limited” number of firearms ... it became clear that a vast majority of these firearms did not meet NATO compliance standards."
Somewhat undercuts the "dangerous weapons of war" line.
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Submachine guns haven't been legal in Canada since Minister @stevenmackinnon was twelve years old.
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"We have banned 324 firearms effective immediately."
"Cool. Since it's effective immediately, could you share the list immediately?"
"No."
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Trudeau claimed in his response that the Conservative Party is 'in the pockets of the NRA.' This is a prevalent conspiracy theory. It has no basis in fact.
I am utterly shocked to see a Prime Minister echo that conspiracy theory so brazenly in the House.
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The inaccuracies in this...
Stornoway is not owned by Poilievre. It's owned by the Crown.
Poilievre does not "bill" for Stornoway. The National Capital Commission is responsible for it. Duclos is the responsible Minister.
The Prime Minister is not our head of state. The King is.
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This doesn't magically happen. You need a base, such as a government that encourages trained, prepared citizens as a defensive strategy in the vein of the Finns or Baltic states.
We have a government pledging to conduct the largest civilian gun confiscation in Canadian history.
Braid: Invading Canada would spark guerrilla fight lasting decades, expert says nationalpost.com/news/canada…
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Carney just referred to Nathalie Provost as Nathalie Provonot and said she became a social justice activist due to her experience at the shooting in Concordia.
That's a fairly big event to not be familiar with.
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When campaigning for further bans last year Provost shared a picture of a firearm that literally did not exist and claimed it was available for sale in Canada.
Nathalie Provost will be running for the Liberals according to a Le Devoir feature today.
An excellent indicator of exactly where Liberal gun policy will be going after the next election for those who had any doubts or hoped for a change from the Trudeau era.
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Two guns here.
One looks like your rabbit gun. That's because it is one of the most common rabbit guns in the country.
One looks like a military gun.
Function? Same. Calibre? Same. Legal status by technical definition? Same.
One banned, one not.
Google random guns from this list and look at them is the reason a lot of these guns are on the list, and that folks then use that as an argument for them being on the list is part of the reason we struggle to have a reasonable discussion on gun policy in this country.
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This is complete low-information posturing.
The power to revoke licenses on any safety grounds has been law my whole adult life. Continuous Eligibility Screening is run daily to ensure license holders are safe.
Liberals choose once again to exploit ignorance of the law.
Someone who’s been convicted of violent offences — especially intimate partner violence — should not be allowed to own a gun.
My government will automatically revoke their licences.
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I've listened to this audio twice and I still hardly believe it.
A staggeringly callous approach to a program that has direct impacts on the lives of hundreds of thousands of Canadians.
🚨BREAKING!!!🚨
Audio recordings of the Public Safety Minister talking about the "buyback" confiscation program:
▶️ Launches Tuesday with pilot project in Cape Breton
▶️ Money pot "capped" at $742M, after it's exhausted you get nothing
▶️ Admits if he had to start over they'd scrap it but it was a campaign promise
▶️ Blames pressure from Quebec (electorate, caucus, Provost?)
▶️ Implies it won't be enforced?
▶️ Admits gun owners will not get fair compensation
▶️ Offers to pay constituent the difference lol
▶️ Offers to pay bail for constituent if he practises non compliance and gets arrested
.... and much more!! Listen in!!!
Original video from @TWilsonOttawa
piped.video/AMK-gFbifYU
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If the Defence Minister does not understand what an assault rifle is, as is the most generous possible interpretation of his tweet here, I question his suitability for the role.
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Question Period today has @SeanFraserMP and @gary_srp falling back on the line that nobody uses AR-15s to shoot deer.
But ... they also banned thousands of other firearm models, including the one pictured.
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I appreciate the Minister's admission that the policy will be ineffective and that he would not do it again. That shows that he has heard the experts and understands the inherent flaws.
He should act on that - not the voices of the ideologues in his caucus - and scrap it.
🚨BREAKING!!!🚨
Audio recordings of the Public Safety Minister talking about the "buyback" confiscation program:
▶️ Launches Tuesday with pilot project in Cape Breton
▶️ Money pot "capped" at $742M, after it's exhausted you get nothing
▶️ Admits if he had to start over they'd scrap it but it was a campaign promise
▶️ Blames pressure from Quebec (electorate, caucus, Provost?)
▶️ Implies it won't be enforced?
▶️ Admits gun owners will not get fair compensation
▶️ Offers to pay constituent the difference lol
▶️ Offers to pay bail for constituent if he practises non compliance and gets arrested
.... and much more!! Listen in!!!
Original video from @TWilsonOttawa
piped.video/AMK-gFbifYU
#cdnpoli
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The contents of a certain Time Magazine article upset me enough that I wrote a response. The @nationalpost was kind enough to publish it.
A myopic focus on the American domestic situation takes us away from solutions which will actually work in Canada.
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A generous person can forgive the Minister forgetting his acronyms. However, the Minister then goes on to say that this is not about law-abiding firearms owners.
Not so. The program only applies to licensed owners. By definition. Key detail.
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From prohibition to amnesty expiry, these firearms will have been with their legal owners for up to six years, six months, and three days without impacting crime rates.
Mass prohibitions directed at legal owners are disproportionate and unscientific responses to firearm crime.
The amnesty period to protect licensed owners and businesses in possession of the prohibited assault-style firearms while they take steps to comply with the law has been extended to October 30, 2026. canada.ca/en/public-safety-c…
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Government MPs made a claim that 19,000 models of firearm would remain available for hunting after the now-defunct prohibition. They never said how they came to that figure, or how many of them were actually available on the market.
So I asked. And this is what I got.
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He did know about it, and said as much. Habs exec seems to have spoken in error. His actual comments were about how this overreaching bill would impact him and are an entirely valid contribution from an Indigenous hunter.
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Trudeau once again referred to Poilievre as "listening to the American gun lobby" and "being controlled by the American gun lobby."
These conspiratorial claims have now been repeated multiple times by the PM in the House in the past six months. They have no basis in fact.
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Invoking the NRA/GOP boogeyman over skeet shooting with shotguns at a fish and game club.
This further validates my last article: the anti-gun groups have given in to radicalism, and it isn't going to stop.
There is no gun control that goes too far for them anymore.
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It's not just the Finns. The Lithuanians do it. The Estonians do it. Poland is starting to do it.
We used to too. Parliament founded the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association for that exact reason. Shooting was the first sport to receive federal funding.
I've recently been thinking a lot about this 2022 @gcaw piece.
The Finns train all adults to be ready to fight an asymmetric war against Russian invaders.
I'm sorry to say that Canada should think about adopting the same model vis-a-vis the US. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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It is worth your time to read this little essay and see the perspective of an impacted person who does not appear to engage in the online back-and-forth.
This article, like it or not, is being replicated in thousands of homes across Canada.
saltwire.com/newfoundland-la…
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I had a massive reply to this written. Thanks to an X glitch, it's gone. Suffice it to say that @SabrinaMaddeaux was absolutely right.
The government's own figures show two intimate partner homicides being committed by a licensed owner in 2020 out of 84 IPHs total.
Of police-reported IPV involving female victims in Canada, 1% of incidents are firearm-related.
There's no good evidence that the new Liberal laws would have prevented even those incidents, yet we're spending billions on it.
That costs time and resources we could be spending on interventions that work, including on the 97.5% and 99% of incidents respectively.
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People make mistakes with timelines, sure, not a big deal. It's this strangely consistent pattern of weird comments about pretty trivial matters that's throwing me off, and I'm wondering if it's throwing others off as well.
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Looks like Carney has joined Freeland and Gould in pledging to continue the firearm confiscation program.
An odd promise to make if you're concerned about fiscal responsibility, value for money, and national sovereignty.
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The Prime Minister has once again repeated the conspiracy theory, the blatant falsehood, that the Conservative Party is somehow in the pockets of the NRA.
This is a myth. Total disinformation. A lie.
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"...the Trudeau Liberals' first Order in Council alone wiped out around $1 million in revenue, around 25%, and the second took away around $2 million in retail sales."
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This is massive.
The Canadian government knew that a specific foreign agent was targeting an Opposition MP's family and allowed it to happen.
My statement on The Globe and Mail report regarding a diplomat of the People’s Republic of China in Canada.
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#cdnpoli
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This is disqualifying, period. You cannot run a candidate that advocates the extraordinary rendition of a political opponent to foreign adversaries.
A party that does so is not able to safeguard the national interest.
The Liberals don't appear to be dropping Chiang as their candidate in Markham-Unionville, per this statement just released by the campaign, calling his comments regarding Tay's bounty as a "significant lapse in judgement" but note that he has apologized and committed to "stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Hong Kong."
#Elxn45
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ALT Statement by a spokesperson for the Liberal Party campaign: Paul Chiang recognized that he made a significant lapse in judgement. He apologized and has been clear that he will stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Hong Kong as they fight to safeguard their human rights and freedoms.
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Provost claims that she was shot by a legal gun owner and that Canadians want assault-style firearms off the streets.
That horrific event predates the Firearms Act - like using pre-driver's license laws to justify a vehicle ban today - and the government's stated criteria means firearms on the streets are explicitly excluded from their program.
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It bothers me to no end to see the capture of Canada's gun debate by groups which don't seem to understand gun mechanics or ballistics, misstate current laws, make exaggerated claims regarding the research ('unequivocal'), don't understand Canadian hunting culture but use it...
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"Frankly, I'm fed up with being the scapegoat for something I didn't do.
Unless the other parties change their mind on firearms policy, they aren't giving me much reason to vote for them."
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I made an Access to Information Request asking that Public Safety Canada provide records pertaining to all consultations with Indigenous groups on C-21 conducted between May 30, 2019 to October 7, 2022.
There was exactly one meeting with any relevant group.
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The firearm debate in the BC election was one of the weirdest we've seen, replete with flat-out inventions. There's a good chance it'll be repeated federally.
So I wrote about it.
readtheline.ca/p/tim-thurley…
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The Liberals are, in fact, pledging to take guns.
I’m voting Liberal and I plan to buy a gun soon ... mainly because PP’s buddy down south is threatening to invade.
Liberals aren’t taking guns - just keeping folks safer than you gun nuts want. Guns need rules, that’s all.
Don’t like it? MOVE
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Guns are guns. A handgun isn't more powerful (or, as a friend of mine was fond of saying, "gunnier") than a rifle. It just has a different form and different - but overlapping - use cases.
Legal Canadian handgun owners use them safely and pro-socially. That's what matters.
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Nathalie Provost will be running for the Liberals according to a Le Devoir feature today.
An excellent indicator of exactly where Liberal gun policy will be going after the next election for those who had any doubts or hoped for a change from the Trudeau era.
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A group of scholars, myself included, warned the Senate that Bill C-21 and punitive gun prohibitions would hurt Canada's capacities and could lead to "severe unintended consequences" in that area.
Those concerns were not considered.
“We must be prepared to defend our sovereignty-not just with military spending, but with a population that is engaged, trained and ready.” Great piece by @petermacleod about how Canada needs a Civil Defence Force where every Canadian has a role to play.🇨🇦💪thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/03/0…
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"[T]he firearms philosophy ... where guns in the hands of the population are viewed as a threat ... has long since outlived its usefulness ... [a] change is needed ... where citizens familiar with and owning firearms are seen as an opportunity."
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"They sold it by saying they’re only affecting the bad guns and they’re not affecting any kind of sports shooters. That’s just not been the case. We are 100 per cent affected by all this and it’s killed certain disciplines."
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The government is not telling the truth that there have been declines in gun violence due to their measures.
Firearm homicide is up since the first major ban in 2020.
Firearm homicides fell in 2023. However, homicides by stabbing fell at a higher rate. Homicides in the United States actually also fell by a similar rate over the same time period (-11.6%) despite not having these measures in place.
The rate of firearm-related homicides was 89% higher in 2023 than in 2013.
These measures exclusively target legal firearm holders. Canada's 2.3 million firearm license holders, according to Statistics Canada's latest report, accounted for 11 out of the 289 firearm homicides, which are in turn a fraction of the 778 total homicides in 2023.
The rate of firearm-related violent crime fell only slightly (-1.7%) from 2022, after surging 8.9% since 2021.
These suggest a few things to me. One, that license holders where the bulk of these efforts are being directed are not the issue. Two, that given the narrow focus of legal changes and the fact that the declines this year were across methods the declines were likely attributable to another factor. Three, that firearm-related violent crime remains an issue and it requires further observation to see if the decline into 2023 was an anomaly.
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I see we're back at the baseless fearmongering stage of the election.
No party is advocating US-style gun laws in Canada. Every major party supports the licensing system. We didn't have US-style gun laws in 2019, and we still won't if the Trudeau-era changes are repealed.
I do not want my children to grow up in a society where guns like this are legal and accessible.
On April 28, let's stop the Conservative party from bringing US style gun laws to Canada.
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It's plain from Question Period that the Prime Minister is poorly briefed on or does not understand firearm issues or the confiscation program.
He's referred to illegal assault rifles multiple times, but no assault rifles are impacted and only guns held by PAL holders qualify.
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Rathjen of @Polysesouvient says that only military calibres, no hunting firearms are prohibited by the 10k Joule limit.
This is not true.
Cartridges like the .460 Weatherby are covered by the ban and were designed purely as hunting cartridges.
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There is no evidence that the 'freeze' has enhanced community safety in Canada.
Police figures indicate that crime handguns in Canada are overwhelmingly smuggled from abroad and illegally owned.
Two years ago today, we froze the handgun market and stopped handguns from being bought, sold, or transferred anywhere in Canada.
We choose your safety over the gun lobby — every time.
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In light of tomorrow's expected news:
The Liberals are tripling down on a firearm policy that has not worked for public safety.
Worse, they are doing so in the face of a threat to our sovereignty that should prompt a reassessment of firearms' domestic security role.
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Nobody is pledging to legalize assault rifles of any kind, which have been considered prohibited in Canada since January 1, 1978. There is no way the Minister does not know this. The Minister is not telling the truth.
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"Although the Trudeau government has claimed that all of the newly banned guns were chosen based on “assault-style” criteria, even a cursory examination of the list shows that not to be true."
"Low-power 'plinking' rifles have literally been defined as 'designed for the battlefield'"
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According to data obtained by @TheGunBlog, 2,352,449 Canadians (7.2% of adults) had a firearm license as of end 2023.
The net annual increase was 87,694, the highest since at least 2003.
The percentage of licenses held by women is increasing.
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The Fur Institute of Canada echoes the assessment that the SKS will be banned after the election.
Remote and Indigenous communities relying on this and similar firearms for sustenance should take note. The bans will continue if this government is re-elected.
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Sorry, but no, this is not an accurate summary of the issue. The proposed bans and 'freeze' by definition target legal, licensed use by sport shooters, and did (and likely will) target a large number of hunting rifles.
These sport shooters help subsidize hunting.
The conservative narrative that Liberal laws target hunters and outdoorsmen instead of criminals is cop out created by an very small, selfish minority who got all pissy because somebody took away their toys designed to kill people not wild game. OC publishing this nonsense has
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I read that Alberta Views article on firearms. It gets some key elements incorrect, or at least twisted around. Going to skip some elements and get straight to the meat.
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I mentioned a few weeks ago that national security is going to re-emerge as part of the firearm policy conversation.
To whit: "Earlier this year, the [Finnish] coalition government announced plans to open more than 300 new ranges..."
apnews.com/article/finland-r…
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A memorable Mendicino moment was when he said, in response to a @Calibremag question, that the long-gun registry was key to finding Marc Lepine in 1989.
Only the registry was first implemented in 1995, and Lepine was found at the scene of the terrible crime.
Mendicino was a well-liked but accident-prone minister. As a former prosecutor and public safety minister he would be strong in areas where Carney has little experience. Seen as pro-Israel.
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This is incorrect. Men make up 65% of firearm violence victims. Intimate partner violence with a gun is 1% of all occurrences. *Of that 1%,* 11% result in serious injury or death.
Violence against women is a serious issue. Trying to pretend bans make a difference trivializes it.
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“It won’t impact crime rates,” [Doug King, a professor of justice studies at Mount Royal University] said.
“Individuals who have registered firearms are much less likely to commit criminal offences than people who don’t have firearms.”
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The Minister claims the ASFCP (firearm confiscation program) has always been voluntary.
This is not true - his government made it mandatory.
Juno News
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C-21 is before Committee now. The Liberals introduced their amendment on the 22nd. It's appropriate to table now and for the government to sell now, but not to oppose it until ... when, exactly?
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In SECU @Taleeb noted that the whole reason to get moving on C-21 is to support getting ghost guns off the street, but C-21 didn't really have anything to do with ghost guns in the first place. The pith and substance is legal firearms. Ghost guns were a late amendment.
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Note the use of feel safe instead of be safe.
That's because that's all this is. The prohibition and confiscation program won't make the average Canadian one iota safer in reality.
Canadians deserve to feel safe in their communities.
@MarkJCarney’s plan will remove assault weapons from our communities, combat organized crime, and strengthen supports for victims. The time to build a safer, stronger Canada is now.
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Plett quotes Dr. Christian Leuprecht at length in his speech: "This legislation is a cynical ploy to polarize Canadian society by leveraging firearms as a wedge issue ahead of the next federal election.
In over twenty years of studying public safety and national security across democratic countries I have never seen a bill with this great a disconnect between its supposed means and ends.
Any parliamentarian who votes in favour of this bill is going on record as disdaining evidence, supporting derision, fanning polarization, encouraging disinformation, and wasting scarce public resources on policy measures that miss their intended targets."
Plett: "Colleagues, I've been here since 2009. I have seen many bills go through this chamber. And I have seen some bad bills before. But frankly, there is no bill that is as absurd as [C-21]."
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The undercurrent of radicalism is once again visible in the replies to this post and posts like it.
A father trap shooting with his son, in a supervised environment, with a break-action shotgun is entirely normal in Canada, and yet it attracts the most hyperbolic comments.
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No, he's right. I've heard the same from many corners, and I can guarantee the folks that have shared similar sentiments with me aren't talking to National Post columnists.
Or anyone, really. They're just quietly making backup plans.
Your post is so very disingenuous and so typical of the @nationalpost that it is obviously a political pitch
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The firearm proposals here are far worse than I expected, and with less basis in evidence.
Worth noting before I delve into details that the three largest mass casualty homicide events since C-68 have been, in order:
1) Illegal, smuggled firearms
2) Mass stabbing
3) Vehicle
Turning the Tide Together – the Final Report of the Mass Casualty Commission – is available on our website. You can access an executive summary, all seven volumes, appendices and annexes on the Final Report Page: bit.ly/3lRKU3x.
ALT A graphic showing the seven volumes of Turning the Tide Together - the Final Report of the Mass Casualty Commission. Text within the graphic reads, "The Final Report of the Mass Casualty Commission is available online at MassCasualtyCommission.ca."
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The firearm bans that we were assured did not target sport shooters would appear to be having a severe continued impact on sport shooters.
The Canadian Multigun Summer Brutality events have been canceled, something I was really looking forward to.
Unfortunately, the Liberals have made it nearly impossible to run events like these, as competitors struggle to find suitable replacement firearms that aren’t banned.
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I am literally begging #SECU members to take the Canadian Firearms Safety Course.
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This myth is prevalent in the United States and has recently spread to Canada as well. Multiple Canadian gun control lobby groups have made or shared this inaccurate claim in this past week.
It is not true.
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Sending RCMP collection units to collect legal guns from remote Indigenous communities who largely opposed these bans is so incredibly short-sighted I'm not even sure where to begin.
There's not a universe where that's a sensible approach.
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Excellent article. This commitment was a transparent political wedge, and was correctly identified by experts at the time as such (see replies for article).
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This was a horrific, heartbreaking tragedy. My heart goes out to him. Unfortunately, tragedy can also lead to bad policy. The perpetrator had no license and owned guns illegally. C-21 would not have prevented it and will itself cause harm.
Pass federal gun bill without delay, father of Ontario shooting victim urges senators theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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This stance is a significant deviation from the government's previous position.
The government was signalling that it would prohibit sale or manufacture of riveted magazines.
However, in the @LP_LaPresse interview with @TristanPeloquin, @DLeBlancNB indicated that possession would also be a criminal offence.
There are tens of millions of magazines in Canada that are riveted, including internal magazines that are not separable from the rifle. Criminalizing possession would be an exercise literal orders of magnitude larger than the 2020 Order in Council, the buyback attached to which has still not been implemented.
This is not a government serious about making achievable public policy on firearms.
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Everyone wants to prevent mass homicides. There isn't a pro-mass homicide constituency on either side of the Canadian gun debate.
Suggesting that Canada risks going down the US road is not reasonable. The legal structure is different. The culture is different. We have a significant legal regime including graduated licensing, universal background checks, waiting periods, training requirements, testing requirements, mental health disclosures, spousal sign-offs, simple revocations, and safe storage laws that have broad consensus and mostly have a greater basis in evidence than by-type bans.
Canada was not the Wild West prior to 2020, and it is not likely to become the Wild West should the legal regime be restored to where it was in the Harper era.
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An excellent point made multiple times: the licensing system worked.
Wortman could not obtain his firearms in Canada. He smuggled them.
The failure was a policing one.
So why dramatically and restrictively change a working system on that basis?
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"The man responsible for last month’s mass shooting in Sault Ste. Marie did not have a licence to possess or acquire firearms, and police are still investigating how he obtained the two weapons seized at one of the crime scenes."
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It's voluntary in the sense that if you don't participate you can choose to either lose the firearm for nothing or risk criminal consequences. An absurd abuse of the English language.
The “buyback” is voluntary… but if you don’t give up your guns you’re “criminally liable”. Make it make sense.
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New Zealand will "start from scratch" on Arms Act, likely to repeal at least some by-type bans while implementing a "system that vets out those who are not fit and proper."
1news.co.nz/2024/02/29/chang…
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The Order in Council has again raised the question of what constitutes a “variant” of a prohibited firearm. I filed an ATIP and got some answers, along with many more questions. Thread, with extracts throughout.🧵
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This 'no legitimate use for a handgun in Canada' has been making the rounds again, but it's somewhere between inaccurate and a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Canada has legitimate uses for civilian use of handguns enshrined in legislation.
My uncles had hunting rifles and shotguns; I have friends who shoot, and friends who hunt. But I don't know anybody who has owned a handgun, because there is no real legitimate use for one in a civilized society. And I don't know anyone who has been shot, either.
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Weeks of backpedaling has led to this admission that the government does, in fact, intend to go after some hunting guns. Let's examine Trudeau's comments.
First, let's not forget that the government spent weeks saying hunting guns were not impacted.
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We know from police that the overwhelming majority - ~90% - of seized crime firearms are not of legal domestic origin. Guns sitting in safes aren't the problem, and bans on legal guns haven't slowed the illegal flood.
"Flood our streets" rhetoric is absurd. Nonsensical.
While we’re taking action to make our communities safer, Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives are determined to undo years of progress and flood our streets with more guns.
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Damoff will not seek re-election.
Liberal MP won’t seek re-election, citing fears for her safety and disgust with toxicity in politics, @aballinga reports. thestar.com/politics/federal… #cdnpoli #LPC
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I was happy to co-sign this letter. C-21 is poor legislation and, in my view, risks undoing Canada's firearm compromise with severe consequences for those it impacts.
The suggested amendments will address the most egregious bits. The House failed. Senators have a duty to fix.
Today, I joined a group of seven concerned scholars and experts in calling on the Senate of Canada to make substantial amendments to Bill C-21. You can read our open letter here.
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Have heard this exact example multiple times from frontline officers in different jurisdictions. It started after the 2020 OiC, now repeated on a larger scale with handguns.
Officers who got in pre-freeze who changed services are still running into this issue as they adapt to a different service pistol.
That's before we get into the range closure issue. On-duty officers and military often rent civilian ranges. If those ranges close as restricted firearm owners dwindle officers in many detachments lose the ability to practice locally even on duty. If you have to fly them somewhere else it comes from their budgets. Huge potential issue. We raised it to the government.
These measures have real costs, and they're not always the first ones you think of.
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The federal government went from 'taking the time to get it right' on C-21 to invoking time allocation within weeks.
Now we're seeing sincere questions come up in SECU around 'red flag' laws, temporary handgun storage and transfers, protection orders, and more.
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I have lots of thoughts on this and can't articulate them in one tweet.
Suffice it to say that advising people to surrender one of their most valuable possessions because you cannot maintain order or protect them when someone tries to take it is not a good path to start down.
Toronto police officer suggests residents leave car keys by front door so thieves seeking vehicles need not mount a home invasion that might bring more violence. "They're breaking into your home to steal your car. They don't want anything else."
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This statement is problematic. The PSM's recorded comments are a far more accurate description of events.
The PSM claims that the ASFCP is a critical part of getting firearms off the street, but the firearms in question are not on the streets by definition. It is a falsehood. Illegally held firearms do not qualify for the program.
The ASFCP is not voluntary. The options are to give up property for limited compensation, give it up for no compensation, or face legal consequences. This rhetoric is irresponsible. It is leading to confusion and will directly result in individuals who take the PSM at his word facing those legal consequences.
Being tough on legal firearms has nothing to do with being tough on crime. Legal firearms are rarely used in criminal activity according to the government's own data.
The majority of Canadians do support responsible gun control, but this is not responsible. It is not part of the solution.
Scrap it.
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Watching a meeting I noted a Senator refer to C-21 as moderate legislation.
C-21's near-total delayed prohibition creates the most draconian restrictions on handguns in the western world outside of the mainland UK, Ireland, and Romania ... though Ireland allows rimfire and the UK allows long-barrel and black powder pistols.
It will also ban a large number of future firearms compliant with EU law under Firearms Directive 2021/555, and retrospectively through the CFAC accompaniment.
It is not moderate legislation. Regarding prohibitions it goes well beyond both Canada's prior regulatory scheme and that in comparable countries.
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When you launch a program that has criminal consequences for average Canadians you have a moral obligation to ensure your communications on the subject are clear and factual.
The PM of all people must meet that standard.
It's plain from Question Period that the Prime Minister is poorly briefed on or does not understand firearm issues or the confiscation program.
He's referred to illegal assault rifles multiple times, but no assault rifles are impacted and only guns held by PAL holders qualify.
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The Liberals are clearly pushing the idea of an Indigenous / s. 35 exemption to firearm bans. This is a terrible idea, which is why Indigenous groups from Ontario to the NWT have opposed it.
Why is that?
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