Gun control

JOHNSON – How we can finally resolve the gun control issue in Canada

February 10, 2023 // 5 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON ArmchairMayor.ca Contributor SO THIS PAST WEEK, the Federal Government backed down from amendments to Bill C21. Bill C21 … the original bill that was hyper [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Clear lines needed between legal and criminal use of guns

December 8, 2022 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE’S NO SPORT in sport hunting. That’s just fact. Animals and birds have only their instincts to defend themselves in this unequal [Continue]

PETERS – ‘Good person with a gun’ theory didn’t work in Uvalde

June 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

NEW INFORMATION that has emerged in the investigation into the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas is shocking to many Americans as it tears down one of the pillars on which [Continue]

PETERS – Changes to gun and drug laws — Symbolic? Practical? Both? Neither?

June 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

WE’VE SEEN A COUPLE of fairly major moves by our federal government in the past week meant to address health and safety for Canadians. The Trudeau Liberals have announced [Continue]

EDITORIAL – New federal bill has a good shot at reducing handgun crime

June 2, 2022 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ONE OF THE BEST THINGS about the federal government’s handgun bill is that it abandons the ridiculous notion of offloading the problem [Continue]

EDITORIAL – After latest U.S. mass shooting, we should be thankful for our gun laws

May 25, 2022 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING in the U.S., this time in Texas. An 18-year-old walked into an elementary school Tuesday with a [Continue]

FORSETH – Federal Liberal claims on gun laws are a load of garbage

February 23, 2022 // 3 Comments

TODAY I READ yet another news story related to criminal actions committed with a firearm – and once again the criminal got off with a slap on the wrist – in fact [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Democracy is threatened by the very people it serves

April 26, 2021 // 5 Comments

By PIERCE GRAHAM Kamloops PROBABLY SINCE its very beginning in early Greece, and later in the minds of the 18th century philosophers, the concept of democracy has been [Continue]

EDITORIAL – New gun control bill a dismal mish mash of half measures

February 17, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AS MUCH AS WE NEED better gun control laws in this country, the latest measures unveiled yesterday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have me [Continue]

GUN CONTROL – Why Canada’s gun ban won’t put a stop to the shootings

June 30, 2020 // 7 Comments

By PAZ GOMEZ Research associate Frontier Centre for Public Policy A PROHIBITION is the easiest way out of a policy problem. In enacting one to target gun violence, the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Wildlife Federation is sounding like just another gun lobby

May 14, 2020 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE GUN LOBBY AND HUNTING have, in my mind at least, always been two different things. Although it’s been many, many years since I stopped [Continue]

LETTER – Gun ban casts too wide a net without increasing public safety

May 10, 2020 // 1 Comment

Dear Minister Blair, I am writing to bring your attention to what I can only believe is an accidental error. We trust that once you become aware of this oversight, you will [Continue]

LETTER – With new gun ban, how do I protect my family from home invasion?

May 8, 2020 // 19 Comments

Hello, my name is Sam Campbell and am writing you about an article I recently read in the CFJC Today about the gun ban announced May 1. I have read many opinion pieces on [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – At long last, tide is turning toward sensible gun laws

May 2, 2020 // 7 Comments

TWO VERY IMPORTANT THINGS happened on the gun law front Friday that lead me to think we might finally be making some progress, albeit imperfectly. Prime Minister [Continue]