[CSSA-CILA E-News] TEAM CSSA E-NEWS - April 30, 2013

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:43:02 -0400

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TEAM CSSA E-NEWS - April 30, 2013

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CSSA COMMENTARY: OTTAWA REPORTS POST-REGISTRY SHOOTINGS ARE WAY DOWN



We can finally say that Canada has been without a national long-gun
registry for more than a year – and shooting incidents have not
increased. The City of Ottawa reports just the opposite. (See news
item below) but do we REALLY know that?



The anti-gun advocacy groups have gone silent in the wake of their
predictions that Canadian blood would run in the streets if the
registry was scrapped. A recent CBC story says shootings in Ottawa
plummeted in the past year from 11 to 2 as of this date. While it
would be hubris to suggest the shooting rate is dropping because of
the registry's demise, we still have every reason to drive home the
fact that the registry and public safety have nothing in common.



History shows that bad people did bad things when the registry still
existed, and it's possible bad things will happen after the registry is
gone.

Small wonder that U.S politicians from every party agreed that a
firearms registry must never be allowed. The matter is so important
in the U.S. that even the gun control lobby agreed that creating a
registry should be illegal. Are you listening, Quebec politicians?



With shooting deaths decreasing, there is some irony in the February 2013
media release from the Coalition for Gun Control. The media release
claims the registry will prevent every social affliction as it
praises Quebec for tabling legislation to build its own registry.
Here's an excerpt from the Coalition website, conveniently located
near the "Donate now" hotlink:





Wendy Cukier, President of the Coalition for Gun Control:
“The Quebec government is stepping in to protect its citizens where
the federal government is failing. Eliminating the registration of
firearms has put lives at risk and undermines Canada’s ability to
meet its international obligations in combatting the illicit gun
trade. Registration increases accountability, therefore helping
enforce the legal obligation to report lost or stolen guns, and
encouraging safe storage, which will help reduce gun theft. It
provides useful investigative information for police officers for
firearm tracing purposes, and allows preventive action when there is
a recognized risk of violence or suicide. Already, Toronto Police
Chief Bill Blair has noted that last year alone, gun seizures were
down by nearly 40% in his force, in part because information his
officers relied on is no longer available...



If the Toronto police are concerned with decreased gun seizures while
Ottawa police are pleased with decreased shootings, it appears that
Toronto Chief Bill Blair should spend a few weeks bunking in Ottawa
to see how good policing works.



As long as we're talking about the Province of Quebec's insatiable need
to register the guns that belong to sport shooters, we're tempted to
ask why it has yet to deliver on its "promise." Where is the second reading
of that provincial legislation that looks like it was written by a
first-year law student on a cocktail napkin?
Is Premier Pauline Marois having second thoughts about second reading,
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CBC REPORTS A BETTER YEAR FOR GUN CRIMES: Shootings in Ottawa have
dropped dramatically so far this year compared to 2012. The city
logged 32 shootings last year, nearly half of them related to gang
activity. But this year, from January 1 to the end of April, there
have been two shootings in Ottawa, compared to 11 from the same time
period in 2012.



Ottawa police Staff Sgt. Mark Patterson, who heads the guns and gangs unit,
says there has been a "marked decrease" in shootings so far this year
compared to the same time frame in 2012...
Patterson attributes the decline to more funding, access to other police
force resources and more search warrants, among other things, after police
Chief Charles Bordeleau named guns and gangs activity one of his three
policing priorities in late 2011.



Probing more into the local drug trade has also helped, Patterson said.
"Guns and drugs are like cookies and milk for our gang members, so we have
been doing more investigations in relation to the drugs, which is
providing us evidence in the street gang members, which is leading us
to some of the guns," Patterson said. "We're getting the
guns off the street."



The unit also has a better rapport with the community, Patterson said,
which is leading to more co-operation with active investigations. He
also said other police forces in Ontario are working on preventing
guns from being smuggled into Canada from the U.S., which means fewer
guns on the street.....Fewer?.....it should mean ALL the street guns.



But with warm weather coming up, Patterson said the decline in shootings
might not hold out. "In saying that … with our summer months
approaching and the nicer weather, we may see an increase,"
Patterson said. "Hopefully it doesn't happen, but I think the
proactive measures we've taken in place and the fact that the
community is on board with us and giving us a hand in some of these
investigations, has kind of reduced the numbers, so far."...
(CBC.ca – April 23, 2013)



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CSSA SUPPORTERS PASS ALONG CUSTOMERS' DONATIONS: More Canadian
firearms businesses are responding to the CSSA's hard work to
establish fair legislation for sport shooters. T.E.C. Trade Ex
Canada of Hawkesbury, Ontario passed along $1,100 to CSSA from
their customers. Owners Anthony and Tony Tyerni have long been
friends of the CSSA and ask their customers to make point-of-purchase
donations to CSSA to preserve their right to own and use firearms.


Darren Cole, president of One Shot Tactical Supply in Trenton,
Ontario provided $800 to the CSSA to support our work. Darren asks
customers to donate $1, $5 or $10 whenever a purchase is made. He
says it's an easy way to provide donations that help to secure fair
firearms legislation in Canada. He encourages every firearms-related
business to ask customers to provide a small point-of-purchase
donation to CSSA. It's painless and it all adds up to support a
worthy cause!


The CSSA is grateful to T.E.C. Trade Ex Canada and One Shot Tactical
Supply for their generosity -- and their customers' generosity, too.
Thank you for helping us help you.

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SHRINK SAYS SELF-DEFENCE ABSENT IN BOSTON BOMBING INFO: Before the
capture of Dzhokar Tsarnaev, with the heroic police manhunt for him
in full swing in Watertown, Massachusetts, Governor Deval Patrick and
public safety officials admonished residents there and in surrounding
communities to stay inside, lock their doors and answer only for
uniformed police officers.




^^^These steps, while perhaps wise for many residents of Massachusetts, also
suggested that all residents of Massachusetts were defenseless and should
act accordingly. One piece of information, for example, was left out of
every press conference that took place in the aftermath of the Boston
Marathon bombings: If you have a licensed firearm, make sure it is
within reach, that it is loaded and that your family members are
nearby.^^^


This directive, in my opinion, would have been a proper public safety
message and public health initiative to safeguard many homes in Watertown
and the metro-Boston area. It also would have avoided the unfortunate
subconscious message to Bostonians that they cannot or should not
take steps to protect their own lives and their loved ones and their
homes in the future, in one very clear way: By exercising their
Second Amendment rights to own firearms and to use them when gravely
threatened or attacked.




It strains the imagination to wonder why any adult in Watertown,
Massachusetts who does not currently own a gun and who lived through the
horror of a terrorist hiding out in that city would not be applying for a
firearms permit this coming week. So, too, for Boston. And, of course,
citizens around the country would do well to learn the same lesson.

The reason that residents of Watertown and Boston were not told to keep
their guns close by (or to congregate in the dwellings of gun owners) is
only because of the liberal political tide that seeks to take guns out to
sea with it.


Almost inexplicably, gun control efforts from the president and members of
Congress continue, despite recent mass attacks with a knife (in Texas, where
14 innocent people were slashed) and in Massachusetts, where bombs made of
crock pots, ball bearings and nails brought horrific casualties. Were
Dzhokar Tsarnaev or someone of similar ilk to seek a home to enter in the
Boston area or any other town or city in America, I can say with near
certainty that an NRA sticker clearly visible on the front door or an
adjacent window would make him choose another door to break down. And, in
any case, a gun in the house, at the ready, would have been the best defense
against being another of his victims. (By Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist
and member of the Fox News Medical A-Team)


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CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE HOLDS SHOOTING FUNDRAISER: Join Kevin Gaudet and
friends for a day on the range! Saturday June 22, 2013 -- from 1 to 5
p.m. at Uxbridge Shooting Sports, 5700 Concession #4, Uxbridge,
Ontario. This memorable event is being hosted at one of Ontario’s
premier clubs for the safe enjoyment of skeet/clay target sports.
Attendance will be limited.



Day will include full instruction and supervision from club members and
one hour on the range. All participants must wear sunglasses and a
baseball cap for safety reasons. Use of firearms, ammunition and ear
protection will be provided. A Firearm Possession & Acquisition
License (PAL) is only required for those wanting to bring their own
long guns. Experienced shooters can use sporting clays fields with
club supervision. 75% tax credit is available on the first $372 contributed
in a calendar year. Tickets are $250. For more information please contact
Peter Seemann at 905-716-3000 or pe...@kevingaudet.ca Please make cheques
payable to Pickering Scarborough East PC Association.


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MPs PROMOTE NEW FIREARMS RULES: The Conservative government is making
moves to privatize some of the functions of the Canadian Firearms
registration system. Motion 439, introduced by MP Cheryl Gallant, has
the support of Bruce Grey Owen Sound MP Larry Miller. That motion
aims to eliminate costly duplication of having each province manage a
separate bureaucracy to administer the firearms system. MP Miller
says law abiding sportsmen, hunters and farmers would benefit by
having one set of rules, rather than the provincial patchwork that
exists. He adds that law enforcement professionals valuable time
would be redirected away from paperwork to more useful tasks, like
front-line policing. Larry Miller is critical of the Chief Firearms
officer of Ontario and his interpretation of the laws. For one thing,
the Chief firearms officer says someone with a valid firearms licence
and wants to take a legal handgun to a shooting range, must be
invited there before getting a permit. Motion 439 was introduced in
the House of Commons April 15th. Private members bills rarely get
passed into law however. (www.bayshorebroadcasting.ca -- April 21,
2013)

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ALASKA DOESN'T SUFFER FOOLS OR A GUN REGISTRY: Shrugging off the
scheming, spinning and outright lies from supporters of President
Barack Obama's push for universal background checks in gun purchases,
a principled minority of the Senate, including Alaska's two senators,
stood up for what is right. We should be thankful.


Despite leftist blathering to the contrary, the ballyhooed background checks
expansion would have created a de facto national gun registry, long the
dream of those whose ultimate goal is confiscation.


Spurred by the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,
Conn., Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., a moderate with an "A"
rating from the National Rifle Association, and Sen. Patrick J.
Toomey, R-Pa., a former House member facing re-election in a
blue-tilting state, teamed up. They hammered out a "compromise"
amendment to pending gun control legislation that would have expanded
the checks – and done much, much more.


The poorly written amendment contained provisions that should have made
gun owners' hair stand on end – everything from gutting the federal
Firearms Owners' Protection Act to the consolidation of personal
information now held by states to setting up a gun control-centric
National Commission on Mass Violence.


The measure failed to garner 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.
The vote was 54-46, with four Democrats, including Alaska's own Mark
Begich and two others facing re-election next year, joining Republicans in
opposition. Begich and the others now find themselves targets of hysterical
gun-grabbers.



Yes, yes, I know, federal law already bars "any system of
registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions
or dispositions. ..." On its face, Manchin-Toomey did, too, even
providing for a 15-year sentence for a violation. But it contained a
loophole.


Unfortunately, federal bureaucrats in the past ignored the prohibition – and
would again, if allowed. Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University in 1994,
for instance, received a Justice Department grant to create a national gun
registry with data from states' background check programs. That died in
court. In 1996, Justice Department computer software allowed police
officials to illegally register the names and addresses of gun buyers, along
with detailed specifics about their guns. In 1998, the FBI announced it
would retain gun buyers' names for 18 months, but cut it to six months after
heated protests.
Congress put the kibosh on even that and ordered destruction of the
information gathered...


The Left knows that. Obama's gun control package, especially the expanded
background check, was a cynical attempt to advance gun control by
exploiting the deaths of 20 children and six teachers at Sandy Hook
murdered by a madman with stolen guns. Nothing in Manchin-Toomey
would have saved a single life.


What is frightening is that the Left knows that, too. It knows 40 percent
of criminals get their guns on the streets and another 40 percent get
them from family and friends; that the mentally ill are virtually invisible
to background checks and likely will remain so because of privacy concerns;
that existing laws are not enforced.



Instead of trying to protect lives, the Left wastes our time harassing the
law-abiding, blaming the National Rifle Association – which represents some
4 million Americans – and castigating politicians who see through the gun
control fantasies.



Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski, no matter what you think of their politics
and no matter their reasons, did the right thing. They, and the other
senators who put principle before politics, deserve better than they
have gotten. (Anchorage Daily News -- April 27, 2013)



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Canada's firearms heritage, traditional target shooting competition, modern
action shooting sports, hunting, and archery. We support and sponsor
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