Your News About Guns – Vos Nouvelles Sur Les Armes À Feu
Sixteen Canadian student associations are demanding that the Trudeau government ban the sale of handguns and assault rifles, so that a tragedy like the one at École Polytechnique de Montréal does not happen again. On December 6, 1989, Marc Lépine shot and killed 14 women at the Polytechnique and wounded […]
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he wants to tackle a surge of gun violence in Canada by targeting criminals who use weapons illegally, rather than supporting an outright handgun ban. Scheer is to unveil the second part of his plan for improving public safety Tuesday in Delta, B.C.: a policy […]
Most Canadians are shocked to hear that Canada has the fourth highest level of gun violence amongst OECD nations. A revealing comparison is with Japan, which has an absolute ban on firearms. Japan reports an average of 0.005 firearm homicides per 100,000 people per year. Canada, by the same measure, averages 0.48, nearly […]
A parliamentary committee is looking into whether the RCMP should be found in contempt of Parliament for posting potentially misleading advice to firearm and gun shop owners regarding the Liberals’ gun legislation. At the centre of the dispute is the question of whether the Canadian firearms program’s website anticipated a decision of Parliament by […]
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