Around the world, country by country and region by region gun shot death rates rise and fall with the % of homes with guns.

The NWT and rural areas are the only regions of Canada where gun shot deaths approach, or eclipse USA, Finnnish and Swiss gun shot death rates.

Those are the 3 developed countries with the highest rates of gun shot death. They are also the developed countries with the highest rates of homes with guns. More guns in homes, more gun shot death. A measured and observed fact, nothing for gun nuts to deny there.

Gun nuts used to have a mantra / catechism statement about the Swiss Militia policy of sending military long guns and paper boxes with 100s of round of military ammunition home with militia members.

The mantra / catechism went along the line of that policy supposedly proving that guns in homes did not correlate with increased gun shot death rates. As usual that was a case of gun nuts not bothering to do a reality check on their pet theories and arguments.

In fact the Swiss Military gun shot death rate was higher than the total gun shot death rate of neighboring countries such as France and Germany. It became such a widely recognized family homicide issue that the Militia had to abandon that policy.

The typical gun shot death, in Canada and in the USA, is a suicide or a personal dispute where an individual has fast access to a firearm.

If you cut one wrist you can decide it was a bad idea and call 911 with the other hand. If you shoot yourself in the head there isn’t much anyone can do for you.

Does it really make sense to listen to the whines of a subculture or clique whose members kill themselves, family members, and people they know at rates so far above the norm in Canada?

I believe everyone should keep a gun in their house…I know i would seriously think twice before breaking into someones house knowing somebody might be sitting there with a gun. I grew up on a farm…we needed to keep a gun around to protect our livestock from predators, and people hunted for lots of their meat…which is far healthier and much more humane way to get meat compared to your factory meat that you find in any store. As a kid…every farmer had a gun sitting around, right by the door…nobody thought anything of, nobody ever got killed or threatened. Kids learn young that you don’t play with guns, you don’t need a firearms safety course to learn how to be safe…you just knew. It was a way of life.

Just spend some time examining the sources and do your own peer review. If the Fraser is inadequate search out the raw data yourself, form an opinion and then compare it to the Fraser studies.

Emotion, fear and ignorance of firearms and an unreasoning/unquestioning belief are the cornerstones of that new faith. They have a vision of a perfect world but just do not have a clue as to how to achieve it. What has the Coalition done to address the cultural problems that put women at real risk?

M.W. – You obviously aren’t involved in gun sports and you dismiss the culture out of hand. You give up nothing with your position – except of course the culture of millions of Canadians. Your “big picture” seems limited to an urban streetscape. You need to live in the country for awhile and travel our land then you might have a better appreciation of Canadian cultures and values.

Why should I give up my culture because society lacks respect for women? The safety of women will not be improved until society accepts that women are equal to men and cultures that include honour killing, arranged foreign marriages, Sharia Law, and that treat women as property accept Canadian values.

Most of these problems have resulted due to Liberal government policies. I see no solutions for solving these cultual problems coming from the Liberals (they don’t want to disturb their immigrant voter base). What I do see from the Liberals is a red herring gun control program that substitutes activity for effective programs that would address the real issues.

Your belief in the usefulness of the gun registry is unfounded and possibly based on personal bias. In 75 years of gun registration we have yet to see one criminal case solved due to registration! Wishing it so does not make it a fact.

The history of the Firearms Act and the bogus support of it by the Liberals has turned a long time Liberal into a voter for the CPC.

Registration does make the Liberal policy of banning all handguns and ALL semi-automatic firearms possible. What then is the real agenda of firearms registration when the policy has failed in all it’s stated aims?

A vote for the CPC is the only possible choice for firearms owners.

I wouldn’t use Fraser Institute Studies, they have a heavy ideological bent, and also don’t peer review (only internally with like-minded folk).

In regards to the argument ‘registering cars, why not register guns’.
Sure lets do it that way. A car only needs to be registered to be driven on public roads, vehicles used on private property do not need to be registered nor does the operator need to be licensed. The registration fee for vehicles was intended for road maintenance and construction so that vehicle owners pay as they are the ones using said roads. By this logic, a gun only used on private property for self defense or on a private shooting range will not be registered. If I register my gun, the cost will go towards the construction of public shooting ranges. Vehicles cannot speed on public roads without a fine, but on a private racetrack they can do as fast as they want. Registered vehicles can have the mechanical capacity to speed without being illegal. If we continue this analogy to firearms, the government can regulate how I use my gun on public property, but if on my private land I can play with a machine gun if I so wish. An unregistered vehicle gets a fine, so would an unregistered firearm (now it is criminal code charges ie jail)

The vehicle registry and firearm registry are nothing alike

cfsr…that was the line of thinking that brought in the registry, but the statistics do not show that to be of any advantage. If the registry had any impact on domestic abuse the statistics would show it. But nope, they show a consistent decrease in the abuse rate since the implementation of certification (showing you have no criminal record nor are insane) to buy a gun in the 70s. This was a broadly supported law, and no one contests the necessity of such control measures. The implementation of the gun registry is simply a point on this negatively-sloping( decreasing) line, the slope(rate of decrease) does not change, and therefore registration had no favorable impact on public safety.

Sources:
Gary Mauser, The Failed Experiment: Gun Control and Public Safety in Canada, Australia, England and Wales, Public Policy Sources, No. 71, The Fraser Institute, Vancouver, BC. November 2003, page 16

Gary Mauser, Off Target: Gun Control In Canada, Journal of Firearms and Public Policy, Vol 13, Fall 2001

The UofA has access to both on their servers.

Indeed the long gun registry is very similar to the handgun registry! They are both in need of removal 😉

Gun registry advocates are like cockroaches, once the light of truth is gone, they scurry everywhere. With facts they run! 😉

What Wendy and her ilk are really doing is setting up women to remain victims and powerless for all time. If a man did the same thing, he would be roasted as a misogynist. When Wendy does it, it is called public safety.