The gun-free utopia comes at a price

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Second Amendment March

While growing up, I knew there were guns and other arms, because the army and police had them. Us, ordinary people didn’t need them. The saying was “my police protect me”. I don’t think I ever saw a gun except in movies or those carried by police on the streets. Some people in remote mountain villages had small rifles and a limited amount of ammunition - mainly to shoot predator animals to protect their farm animals. At 13, police were going door to door at night, pointing guns at my family and other neighbors. Later I witnessed how government ordered army and tanks to the streets of my city under the cover of the night, killing dozens of innocent people. Not a very good experience to base your opinion about guns.

Some of you might have noticed that I go off about stuff in the United States a lot.  It's not that I understand a whole lot about American politics or law or anything like that (hey, I'm Canadian), but I have managed to notice that idiocy on one side of the border will sooner or later spill over to the other.

In other words: if it happens there, it's likely to happen here too.  That works both ways, in case you're wondering.  Just look at some of the idiot-talk there's been south of the border lately about setting up their own national gun registry.  So that's why I keep an eye on American stuff and write about it (Dennis can cover the Canadian side of the border, god knows he's got enough opinions).

I also like to think that I'm a guy who knows bullshit when he smells it.  And the latest stuff could fertilize half the fields in the whole midwest.

Blame it on the woodchuck, I guess.

by Dennis E. Florian
Gun Owners' Resource Staff

Canadian gun owners can be forgiven if they're feeling some peculiar empathy for Bill Murray these days.  Back in 1993, poor Bill found himself doomed to repeat the second of February over and over, for all time, until he got it right. 

When it comes to figuring out how to properly deal with the multi-billion-dollar white elephant that is the Canadian long gun registry (it should be taken out behind the barn and shot), we seem to be stuck in the same boat, reliving the same pains in our collective butts over and over, for all eternity, until we finally get it right.

This past Monday, Bill C-301 was to be debated in the House of Commons in Ottawa.  That never happened.  Instead, the bill, which seemed to have every chin wagging and which many argued had been circling the bowl for some time, took a header for the drain. 

Here’s a thought for you:

by Cnst. Randy Kuntz
Edmonton Police Service

Recently I have been surveying police members from across Canada in relation to their thoughts, personal or professional, on the long gun registry.

I have had some very interesting emails and comments from police members and thought I should share the data I have collected thus far.

My purpose in this was to present these statistics to the CACP as they have been supporting the long gun registry as an “officer safety and public safety” issue. I believe they are wrong and I set out to prove that the CACP does not speak on behalf of law enforcement officers as a whole. On a daily basis, I am seeing that the CACP and police members differ greatly in their views on the long gun registry.