This post will no doubt annoy firearms aficionados – I don’t much care. In the last 2 weeks, the United States has experienced 2 mass shooting events that resulted in multiple deaths each – one approaching 10, and another over 20 dead. Uvalde, TX – a community of 13,000
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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: The Hits Keep Coming
Yesterday, a man picked up a gun and killed 18 students in an elementary school in Texas. This morning a candidate for the leadership of the CPC promised to burn Canada’s gun control laws. Wow – talk about not reading the room – at all. Possibly the worst hot take
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Guns – What Are They Good For
War The Wikipedia section on the history of guns makes it clear that the history of guns and war are clearly intertwined, guns being developed primarily as a means to kill people in warfare. Indeed even with the advent of weapons of mass destruction, the infamous WMDs, guns are still
Continue readingAlberta Politics: UCP rural crime proposal sure sounds like a call to bring deadly U.S.-style ‘stand-your-ground’ laws to Canada
I’m sure the United Conservative Party will say I’m wrong, so can somebody please explain to me how the UCP’s rural crime “task force” proposal to let rural property owners defend themselves and their property with firearms is not the same as the stand-your-ground” laws in the United States that
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Are the Wildrosers eyeing public service pensions? It’s worth keeping an eye on what they get up to in Cowtown
ILLUSTRATIONS: Can the Wildrose Party control its Tea Party fringe? We’ll get a sense tomorrow and Saturday when the party considers its members’ policy proposals. Below: Party Leader Brian Jean, at right, in Terminator mode; with Wildrose Finance Critic Derek Fildebrandt in a stunt with big signs inspired by Mr.
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Minister’s F-Bomb illustrates the lamentable state of Alberta’s political discourse
A cheerful looking Doug Griffiths, back when he was running against Alison Redford for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party. Below: Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith. Many of us were asking ourselves yesterday afternoon if Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths had really dropped an F-Bomb on the Wildrose Party?
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Attitudes to Guns #nlpoli
Her pistol is concealable with any outfit choice. -srbp-
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Mass Shootings by the Numbers
Over three-quarters of the firearms used to carry out mass shootings in the United States since 1982 were obtained legally. How on Earth can there not be a national discussion on gun control? And to those gun advocates who say that tragedy ought not to be politicized, that we need
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: On the Latest School Shooting: Symptoms, Disease, and Gun Control
With every problem, there are symptoms and there is the disease. In the wake of yet another mass shooting in the United States today — this one leaving twenty-seven dead at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school — the disease, clearly, is the culture of violence that pervades the country, and
Continue readingMan arrested & strip-searched after daughter draws picture of daddy watering plants, teacher suspects grow-op
Okay, that didn’t really happen and was in fact pulled right out of my arse. But it’s only a matter of time: A Kitchener father is upset that police arrested him at his children’s school Wednesday, hauled him down to the station and strip-searched him, all because his four-year-old daughter
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