Canadian homicide trends
Recent Canadian homicide trends undermine claims of anti-gun activists. Just 10% of homicides involve spousal victims, and guns are not the typical weapon used. Knives…
Recent Canadian homicide trends undermine claims of anti-gun activists. Just 10% of homicides involve spousal victims, and guns are not the typical weapon used. Knives…
The horrific shootings in Las Vegas have attracted excited calls for more gun control in Canada as well as the United States. Most are just…
This post is by Dr. Caillin Langmann, MD, PhD, FRCPSC, ABEM. Professor of Medicine, McMaster University. It may be downloaded from SSRN. Tragedies as…
Why is the RCMP shuffling deck chairs, when the Titanic is sinking? Handgun homicides have increased dramatically since the 1990s. Handgun homicides spiked in the…
Access to PAL’s on CPIC violates citizen’s privacy rights. Supposedly, this is for public safety, but this is dangerously false. It is standard policy for…
Are gun owners a threat to police or public safety? The police think you are. Every night, the police check all licensed firearms owners….
Sometimes, it’s hard to know what to worry about. Back in the 1990s it was estimated that between 1,000 and 2,000 people died annually from NSAID complications while,…
Here are two analyses I did a few years back that can shed some light on the question. I hope to present soon a new…
An extensive study that I published with American criminologist and constitutional lawyer Don Kates confirms the negative results of previous international studies in 2007. Our…
Do the facts support claims that simply having a firearm available can transform an angry encounter into murder, or a fit of depression into an…