Playing Politics with Public Safety
More Hypocrisy From The Canadian Conservative Party – Playing Politics With Public Safety
The majority of Canadians support robust gun control.
The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police supports gun control.
Most Canadians support the Canadian Chiefs of Police.
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair says that the gun registry is an issue of public safety, and “public safety is everybody’s issue.”
The country’s Chiefs of Police believe that the Conservative Bill C391 will compromise law-enforcement agencies’ ability to deal with gun violence. They believe that law enforcement will lose access to information that helps police officers keep our communities safer.
Some Liberal and NDP MPs appear to be on the Conservative side of an issue that Stephen Harper has been pushing for more than a decade and which places Harper in direct opposition to those responsible for law and order.
Bill C-391 will be voted on this evening (Wednesday November 4th., 2009).
Since 1991, police chiefs have passed resolutions, advocated publicly, testified at parliamentary committees and intervened in court challenges in the interests of creating and maintaining a system to screen and license owners, and register their firearms. (Toronto Globe and Mail).
The politicization of this issue is unfortunate. As Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair says, the gun registry is really an issue of public safety, and “public safety is everybody’s issue.” Wavering Liberal and NDP MPs ought to take heed of his words. (The Toronto Star).
Liberal justice critic Dominic LeBlanc said while the party’s position is still to retain the registry to protect public safety, the caucus will have a free vote.
“The police check the gun registry over 9,000 times a day,” he said. (The London Free Press).
Opposition MPs supporting the move could get cold feet when the final roll is called or the Liberal-controlled Senate could stonewall the bill until the next election kills it yet again. (National Post).
With the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Polytechnique Massacre just weeks away, gun-control advocates and the victims’ families are urging opposition members of Parliament to vote against a private member’s bill that would abolish Canada’s long-gun registry. (Winnipeg Free Press).
Fact: A majority of Canadians want more gun control, not less.
The majority of Canadians support a robust level of gun control.
The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police supports gun control.
Most Canadians support the Canadian Chiefs of Police.
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair says that the gun registry is an issue of public safety, and “public safety is everybody’s issue.”
The country’s Chiefs of Police believe that the Conservative Bill C391 will compromise law-enforcement agencies’ ability to deal with gun violence.
They believe that law enforcement will lose access to information that helps police officers keep our communities safer.
Some Liberal and NDP MPs appear to be on the Conservative side of an issue that Stephen Harper has been pushing for more than a decade and which places Harper in direct opposition to those responsible for law and order.
Bill C-391 will be voted on this evening (Wednesday November 4th., 2009).
Since 1991, police chiefs have passed resolutions, advocated publicly, testified at parliamentary committees and intervened in court challenges in the interests of creating and maintaining a system to screen and license owners, and register their firearms. (Toronto Globe and Mail).
The politicization of this issue is unfortunate. As Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair says, the gun registry is really an issue of public safety, and “public safety is everybody’s issue.” Wavering Liberal and NDP MPs ought to take heed of his words. (The Toronto Star).
Liberal justice critic Dominic LeBlanc said while the party’s position is still to retain the registry to protect public safety, the caucus will have a free vote.
“The police check the gun registry over 9,000 times a day,” he said. (The London Free Press).
Opposition MPs supporting the move could get cold feet when the final roll is called or the Liberal-controlled Senate could stonewall the bill until the next election kills it yet again. (National Post).
With the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Polytechnique Massacre just weeks away, gun-control advocates and the victims’ families are urging opposition members of Parliament to vote against a private member’s bill that would abolish Canada’s long-gun registry. (Winnipeg Free Press).
Fact: A majority of Canadians want more gun control, not less.
The police of chiefs association is funded by the the same people who advocate the gun registry. They are a political lobby group not a policing entity.
Can you give me one crime the gun registry has solved. Can you break down the 10,000 hits a day I keep hearing? No you can’t because only about 20 are used for legitimate police work.
Its easy to target the law abiding citizens. Give me one country where they enacted some form of gun control and as a direct result crime went down(and don’t say Canada because our crime has been dropping at a steady rate for the last 35 years).I can give you a bunch where the opposite happened.
In the 1960′s when I could own an assault rifle crime was a third of what it is now. What does that tell you.
Why don’t you read a history book and see which route unarmed countries go. Anyone who advocates gun control is in the same league of the genocidal maniacs the 20th century happens to be so full of.
Self defense is right. Not a privilege. I want to carry on gun because I can’t carry a police officer with me everywhere I go. Out police in Canada are among the finest but they can’t protect you. Only you can do that.
“Canadians don’t need another report to know that the long-gun registry is very efficient at harassing law-abiding farmers and outdoors enthusiasts, while wasting billions of taxpayer dollars,” Minister of Security Peter Van Loane
PS. What do all genocides have in common? Strict Gun Control(AKA people Control.)
Greg I have one word for you: Nonsense”.