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Team CSSA E-News | May 7, 2019
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Toronto’s ongoing epidemic of gang violence is the excuse for an expensive government program to buy “unwanted” firearms. It’s stated goal is to remove guns from the hands of law-abiding citizens, not from criminals.
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Nobody here today, including in particular, me,” Mayor John Tory said in his press conference, “is going to suggest this represents an answer that is going to cause gun violence to disappear in our city.”
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The City of Toronto will pay $200 for rifles and shotguns, and $350 for handguns, in a program that runs from April 26 until May 17, 2019.
“The program aims to reduce the number of firearms in the city that could fall into the wrong hands and endanger someone’s life. By turning over the firearm, you ensure that the firearm will never be stolen for a criminal purpose.”
This self-apparent admission that drug dealers, gang members and other violent criminals will not turn in their guns was also admitted by Brampton City Councillor Charmaine Williams prior to the defeat of her motion to pay $100 per gun last month.
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We know gang members won’t hand in their guns,” Williams acknowledged.
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Toronto’s program is expected to cost $500,000 taxpayer dollars if they are able to match numbers turned in during the last amnesty held over a decade ago.
“One less gun off the streets, one less gun that is turned in through this program is one less gun that is available to people who will commit the kind of violent acts that we’ve seen taking place in our city.”
The CSSA believes a half million dollars would be better spent on programs to divert young people away from a life of crime. Those programs are effective, but they don’t give politicians the opportunity to issue flashy press releases and host grandstanding photo ops.
Like many gang diversion programs across the nation, funding for the Peel Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (PAVIS) ran out at the end of 2018 and has not been reinstated.
“That PAVIS funding was key to us, and it really, really made a difference,” Peel Police Chief Chris McCord said.
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McCord also explained he has no evidence these “buy back” programs are effective, but as always, a lack of evidence didn’t stop Toronto's John Tory from moving ahead with a dumb idea.
“One less gun off the street is a success. We need the help from the public in order to move towards this success.”
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Reality Check: Tory doesn’t want guns “off the street.”
John Tory wants them taken out of the gun safes of ordinary, law-abiding citizens and dumped into a police-sanctioned gun smelter.
How about the guns possessed by drug dealers, gang members and other violent criminals?
Neither Mayor John Tory nor his expensive gun buyback program aim to take those guns “off the street.”
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What is the REAL aim of John Tory's gun buyback program?
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To collect the guns of violent criminals
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To collect the guns of law-abiding gun owners
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To pretend to be doing something about gang violence
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Results from last week's survey question...
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Do you support central storage facilities for firearms in Canada?
Yes: 0.4%
No: 99.3%
Not Sure: 0.3%
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#29 The Case For Guns In Canada
Oppo | Canadalandshow.com | May 7, 2019
Is the government coming to take your guns? Was scrapping the long-gun registry a mistake? Do we need stricter gun laws? Does the Liberal plan to ban handguns actually make sense? We scope out the current stock of firearm laws in Canada and take a look at what's coming down the barrel.
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Canadians want something done about gun violence — they just can't agree what
Mia Sheldon & Matthew Amha | CBC News | May 7, 2019
Some want stricter gun controls, other say this wouldn't solve the core issues
From crime in big cities, to fear over mass-shootings, to concerns about rates of firearm-related suicide, Canadians generally agree that something needs to be done about gun violence. But a consensus about what specifically that "something" should be is much more elusive.
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Why Trudeau's Liberals are pretending THIS gun control study doesn't exist
Sheila Gunn Reid | TheRebel.media | May 3, 2019
A new order paper shows the Liberals aren’t interested in studying both sides of the firearms debate before they grab your guns.
Bill C71 makes it harder for lawful people to get and then keep their gun license, bans rifles already in circulation, and tracks license holders when they buy, sell, contemplate selling or give away their guns.
And while the Liberals claim Bill C71 doesn’t technically create another gun registry, it does require gun stores to track buyers and guns.
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TOWHEY: Really want to end gun violence? Try these 7 things to save lives
Mark Towhey | Toronto Sun | May 4, 2019
The next time you hear a politician speak about banning handguns, think about what he or she’s not saying.
Governments can only do so many things at once. Every day spent on ridiculous new restrictions for legal gun owners, is time not spent on measures that would actually reduce gun violence in Canada.
By diverting resources away from changes that would save lives, politicians who advocate for gun bans are complicit in the crimes that continue to take lives every day.
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ONTARIO WATERFOWL
Airing May 12, 2019 on CITYTV at 8:30 a.m. EST
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Kevin Beasley and 'Yamaha's' Peter Smallman-Tew are in Ontario hunting waterfowl with 'Grey Bruce Outfitters'. The sky comes alive as the guys hope to shoot some limits of geese and ducks.
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Data gap in how police collect key firearms information impedes tracing efforts
Patrick White | Globe and Mail | May 6, 2019
Statistics Canada has discovered inconsistencies in the way police across the country collect key firearms data, creating information gaps that have vexed the agency at a time of deep national division over how best to tackle rising gun crime.
The Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, a division of Statistics Canada, has been working to identify and close data gaps on guns for nearly a year in collaboration with Public Safety Canada.
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If Australian Gun Laws Work So Well, Why Did Police Find Guns?
Tom Knighton | Bearing Arms | May 5, 2019
Anti-gunners are in love with Australian gun control. In their minds, it’s a perfect utopia, all because of a supposed lack of mass shootings in the nation since it passed gun control. Nevermind that it’s not true. No, they want the laws regardless of mass shootings.
However, if gun control works so well, then why did Australian police just recover a number of firearms during a recent drug raid?
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Arming of CBSA officers at airports in Canada: New federal policy is troubling, says Customs and Immigration Union
Français
Cision| May 5, 2019
OTTAWA, May 5, 2019 /CNW Telbec/ - The National President of the Customs and Immigration Union (CIU) has denounced as "troubling" the recent announcement by the federal government that CBSA Border Services Officers (BSO) will still not be authorized to carry their sidearm at all times while performing their duties at airports in Canada.
For years, CIU, which represents 10,500 members, most of whom are front-line border services and inland immigration enforcement officers, has been vocal about the issue of federal policy preventing border officers from carrying their sidearm while on duty.
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504 guns handed to Toronto police in week one of three week buyback program
The Canadian Press | Regina Leader-Post | May 4, 2019
Toronto police say they collected 504 firearms during the first week of their three week gun buyback program.
Police say the 349 long guns and 155 handguns will all be destroyed.
Any Toronto resident who wants police to pick up an operable, registered or unregistered gun from their home will be paid $200 for a long gun and $350 for a handgun.
The guns will be inspected to determine if they’ve been used in a crime, and people who hand them over to police will not face a charge for possessing or unsafely storing a firearm.
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Scientists: Earth Endangered By New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans
The Space Academy | April 24, 2019
Scientists have
discovered a powerful new strain
of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study reports. The research, conducted by the University of Minnesota, identifies a virulent strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge, leaving scientists at a loss as to how to combat them.
“These humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information. And yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive. As facts have multiplied, their defenses against those facts have only grown more powerful.” Davis Logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the study, said.
While scientists have no clear understanding of the mechanisms that prevent the fact-resistant humans from absorbing data, they theorize that the strain may have developed the ability to intercept and discard information enroute from the auditory nerve to the brain.
“The normal functions of human consciousness have been completely nullified,” Logsdon said.
While reaffirming the gloomy assessments of the study, Logsdon held out hope that the threat of fact-resistant humans could be mitigated in the future.
“Our research is very preliminary, but it’s possible that they will become more receptive to facts once they are in an environment without food, water, or oxygen,” he said.
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6th ANNUAL
River Ridge Fish and Game
GUN SHOW
Canora, SK
Saturday, June 8th & Sunday June 9th, 2019
Sylvia Fedoruk Centre (Canora Curling Rink)
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Vendor Set Up
Friday June 7th
2 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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Show Hours
Saturday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Open to Firearms and Related Items ONLY.
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Bill C-71 Final Reading in Senate Set for May 9, Pratte Says
TheGunBlog.ca | May 3, 2019
TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Senate will vote on
Bill C-71
for the third and final time on May 9, said the Senate sponsor of the bill, pushing the government’s plan to further restrict hunters, farmers and sport shooters a step closer to becoming law.
“There was an agreement between the leaderships of the different parliamentary groups in the Senate providing that the 3rd reading vote would be held next Thursday, May 9th,” Senator
André Pratte
told TheGunBlog.ca today by e-mail in response to questions. “Therefore, I expect this final vote will be held on that day.”
Restrict and Confiscate
The Liberal Party government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed Bill C-71 in March 2018 to confiscate rifles from as many as
15,000
men and women after they die, make it easier for the federal police to prohibit any other guns, and make it harder for police-approved hunters and shooters to buy, sell, own and travel with firearms.
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What the World’s Biggest Machine-Gun Shoot Looks Like
Nicolas Kern | Intelligencer | May 3, 2019
Twice a year, firearm enthusiasts meet at the Knob Creek Gun Range in Bullitt County, Kentucky, for an event billed “the world’s largest machine-gun shoot.” Visitors can avail themselves of a wide variety of powerful weapons, including magazine-fed and belt-fed machine guns, automatic rifles from the 1930s, and more exotic artillery, like a full-size cannon.
Buying and using high-powered weaponry can be an expensive hobby: for example, an NFA Class III arm — the category under which machine guns fall — can go for $20,000 or more, says an attendee, who, like many at the event, prefers to remain anonymous. Those guns can put out more than 600 rounds per minute, at a cost of at least 20 cents a round. (Visitors who do not own such guns have the opportunity to rent and shoot at a separate range.) Steve Sumner, a member of the family that owns the range, claims that shooting machine guns is “the fastest way to turn money into noise.”
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Smol: Canada liberated the Netherlands. Now guess who has the better-equipped military today?
Robert Smol | Ottawa Citizen | May 5, 2019
The Dutch won't forget the country that came to their aid. That's cause for celebration – but also for possible embarrassment, considering how the state of the Canadian Armed Forces compares to the modern Dutch military.
I’ve always been aware – and have experienced first-hand – how appreciative the Dutch of all generations are towards Canada for liberating their country in the final months of the Second World War. The liberation is customarily observed on May 5. The Dutch will not forget the country that came to their aid.
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Queen used Churchill's Tommy gun to practise killing Nazis at Buckingham Palace
Jaymi McCann | Mirror | May 5, 2019
The Queen used a Tommy gun sent by Churchill to practise shooting Nazis.
A Channel 4 documentary tonight reveals how the then Princess Elizabeth was trained to fire the weapon in Buckingham Palace Gardens at the height of the Second World War.
It tells how her dad George VI refused MI6’s plea to be evacuated to Canada in 1940.
Warwick University’s Prof Richard Aldrich adds: “He says everybody is going to stay and going to fight. He says, ‘I want to get my German. I want to at least kill one of the invaders and we will all fight to the last.’
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MAY
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Fort McMurray Hunt Mania Gun & Sportsman Show
MacDonald Island Hockey Arena
Fort McMurray, AB
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MAY
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Prince George Rod & Gun Club Gun Show
Exhibition Park, Kin 2,
2187 Ospika Boulevard South
Prince George, BC
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MAY
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Chilliwack Gun Show
Evergreen Hall
9291 Corbould Street
Chilliwack, BC
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PLEASE NOTE: As shows may be subject to change or cancellation, please check with your local gun show coordinator before heading out. Thank you.
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