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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Mark Twain American news haunts the gun debate…
Some like to blame guns for killing people. That’s as silly as blaming spoons for getting people fat. So why do the traditional media and…
Bill C-71 is a Red Herring Submission to the Federal Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Bill C-71 April 2018 Gary A Mauser,…
A recent murder in rural Canada has captured headlines, but news reports ignore the elephant in the room: indigenous murder rates are shockingly high. Aboriginal…
Are peaceable PAL holders being deliberately disarmed? The police appear to be using the firearms regulations to do so. Conviction can mean losing one’s guns,…
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….
After the recent terrorist attacks in France and England, we see a lot of candles being lit, teddy bears being distributed, and inclusive gestures made…
There are two interrelated problems with the Canadian Police Information Centre [or CPIC] that demand to be solved: (1) the unacceptably low priority assigned to collecting…