CTV – NO ‘MAGIC LEVER’ TO SOLVE GUN CRIME: EXPERT
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/no-magic-lever-to-solve-gun-crime-expert-1.4222841
CTV – NO ‘MAGIC LEVER’ TO SOLVE GUN CRIME: EXPERT – How to get handguns off the streets promises to be a divisive issue in the upcoming election year. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government plans to limit access to handguns and assault weapons and has not ruled out an all-out ban. But independent firearms researcher Dennis Young says no statistics bear out the idea that lawful gun owners or their guns are the reason for increased shootings or guns on the streets. In fact, Young says he has yet to find anyone who tracks how many gun crimes are committed by licensed gun owners or how many handguns have been stolen from licensed owners. “If politicians want a handgun ban, they have to fabricate the stats to justify that,” Young told CTVNews.ca in a telephone interview from his home in Airdrie, Alta. According to Statistics Canada, violent crime accounted for 20 per cent of all police-reported crime in Canada in 2016. And of all violent crimes, just 3 per cent involved a firearm. By Meredith MacLeod, CTVNews.ca – Published Friday, December 21, 2018 https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/no-magic-lever-to-solve-gun-crime-expert-1.4222841
RCMP DON’T COLLECT STATISTICS ON HIGH PRIORITY GUN CONTROL TARGETS
RCMP STATISTICS ON VIOLATIONS OF 443,043 FIREARM PROHIBITION ORDERS – NO STATISTICS ON: the number who have violated their firearms prohibition order. NO STATISTICS ON: how many of those violations involved a firearms crime. NO INFORMATION ON: the measures the government has in place to monitor these 422,887 convicted criminals who have been prohibited from owning firearms. RCMP Response to Access to Information Act request dated December 11, 2018 – Received December 18, 2018 by Dennis R. Young
SIGN THIS PETITION TO JUSTIN TRUDEAU: SHOULDN’T POLICE KNOW WHERE THESE BAD GUYS WITH GUNS LIVE?https://www.change.org/p/justin-trudeau-shouldn-t-police-know-where-these-bad-guys-with-guns-live
THE EVIDENCE SIMPLY DOESN’T SUPPORT CALLS FOR GUN BANS IN CANADA
Opinion: The evidence simply doesn’t support calls for gun bans in Canada
Here is a simple question for Canada to answer: has a single place, anywhere in the world, ever seen its murder rate decline after banning all handguns or all guns? We can’t find such a place. Every single time that guns have been banned, murder rates have gone up — often several-fold. By John R. Lott and Gary Mauser, National Post – December 17, 2018. John R. Lott is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author most recently of “The War on Guns.” Gary Mauser is professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/opinion-the-evidence-simply-doesnt-support-calls-for-gun-bans-in-canada
BILL C-71: AN OVERLOOKED ISSUE
2017 RCMP COMMISSIONER OF FIREARMS REPORT AND an OVERLOOKED ISSUE By Edward L. Burlew, LL.B. Barrister & Solicitor – December 9, 2018
GOVERNMENT RULES 65% OF BILL C-68 CABINET DOCUMENTS TO REMAIN ‘SECRET’
PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE RELEASES BILL C-68 CABINET DOCUMENTS FROM 1994/95 (SORT OF) 272 pages out of 415 withheld citing Solicitor-Client Privilege – 65% of Bill C-68 Cabinet documents to remain ‘SECRET’ – Privy Council Office ATIP response dated November 22, 2018 – Requested April 3, 2017 Received by Dennis R. Young December 7, 2018
EVIDENCE-BASED FIREARMS STATISTICS DESPERATELY NEEDED
IMPORTANT GUN CONTROL STATISTICS MISSING FROM RCMP FIREARMS COMMISSIONER’S REPORTS TO PARLIAMENT – The Liberal Government promised their policies and programs would be ‘evidence-based’. Unfortunately, the base of ‘evidence’ in support of federal firearms programs is sorely lacking. By Dennis R. Young – December 5, 2018
GOODALE OPPOSES TRACKING HIGH PRIORITY GUN CONTROL TARGETS
GOODALE OPPOSES NEW LAW REQUIRING 422,887 CONVICTED CRIMINALS, PROHIBITED FROM OWNING FIREARMS BY THE COURTS TO REPORT THEIR CURRENT ADDRESSES TO POLICE – “With respect to the recommendation that individuals who are subject to a weapons prohibition order be required to report any change of address, the criminal justice system does not generally keep track of a person who is not serving a sentence.” Liberal Government response to Firearms Petition e-1605 – November 5, 2018
PUBLIC SAFETY: NO RECORDS ON 422,887 CONVICTED CRIMINALS PROHIBITED FROM OWNING GUNS BY THE COURTS – Response to Access to Information Act request dated October 25, 2018. Public Safety ATIP file A-2018-00216 received Oct 31, 2018 by Dennis R. Young https://dennisryoung.ca/2018/11/02/public-safety-no-records-on-422887-convicted-criminals-prohibited-from-owning-guns-by-the-courts/
GOODALE’S RESPONSE TO FIREARMS e-Petition 1608: 86,082 Signatures
“We, the undersigned, Residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to scrap Bill C-71, An Act to amend certain Acts and Regulations in relation to firearms, and to instead devote greater resources to policing in Canada.” MP Rachael Harder, Lethbridge
