Gun Control

Multiple groups and individuals, portraying themselves as experts in firearm research, have misstated the current body of comparable research on firearm deaths in Canada and continue to mislead readers at home and abroad.

Gun owners in Alberta are feeling hopeful after the provincial government tabled new firearms legislation last week, but experts say it is not yet clear if Bill 8 will have the power to trump federal legislation.

Alberta Justice Minister Tyler Shandro introduced the legislation Tuesday, saying the goal of the bill is to offer more clarity and autonomy to Albertans over firearms regulations after amendments to the federal firearms laws received pushback

Jason Acorn was 12 years old when he first shot a deer.

He was in the McLeod River Valley area, far west of Edmonton. It was freezing cold, and snow was everywhere.

He remembers pouting, because his brother had just shot a deer and he hadn’t.

But then, just at last light, a small white-tailed doe, probably weighing about 100 pounds, appeared. Acorn’s father whispered to him: “OK, Jay. It’s your turn.”

Banning new handgun sales won’t necessarily lessen crime.

So says in-house research by the Privy Council Office, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

Under new firearms legislation proposed in Alberta, Justice Minister Tyler Shandro would be granted powers to license “seizure agents” and oversee gun-related funding agreements between Ottawa and municipalities – including their police forces.

“There are few things I hate more than getting up first thing in the morning and learning there’s been a mass shooting somewhere overnight.

It’s not because it creates work for me or even necessarily that it renews the gun debate. It’s the senseless loss of life that takes me back to a moment I wish I could forget.”

Say what?

From the wild west we bring you a funny case study in firearms news coverage: Global News, seizing on a remark by Edmonton’s chief of police, is sounding the alarm about “ghost guns” in the Alberta capital. Shooting incidents are at an all-time high in the city, and Chief Dale McFee is rightly keeping one eye on seizures of privately made guns, issuing a table of stats indicating the variety and quantity of the problem. The brief TV version of the story highlights the phenomenon of the 3D-printed gun, which can conceivably be made in a home workshop out of non-metallic polymers, raising the spectre of streets flooded with high-tech weaponry.

They neglect that true psychopaths, like the perpetrator of the Michigan State tragedy, cruise through background checks and red flag screenings.

Whenever there is a horrific mass shooting somewhere in the country, the liberal chattering classes begin the usual mantra. Calls for red flag laws and a ban on assault weapons flood the op-ed pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post, even if the crime in question would not have been prevented by such legislation. The recent tragedy on the campus of Michigan State University is a case in point. The shooter, Anthony McRae, did not use an assault weapon, and a red flag law would not have worked in his case. McRae was despondent over the death of his mother but was not previously violent, nor had he threatened anyone before the shooting. If depression or mental illness became a criterion for disarming an individual, most of our country’s citizens — including at least one serving senator — could be disarmed at some point in their lives.

On the surface, the two cases seemed almost identical, the resident of a house responding both times with lethal violence to an invasion by multiple thieves.

Kyle Rittenhouse vows to ‘prove my innocence again’ after man he shot in the arm during 2020 Kenosha riots sues him for ’emotional distress and humiliation’ despite testifying that he pointed his firearm first

Kyle Rittenhouse has vowed to ‘prove my innocence again’ after the man he shot in 2020 sued him for ’emotional distress and humiliation’.

Gaige Grosskreutz, who testified that he had pointed a pistol at Rittenhouse and was then shot during the 2020 Kenosha riots, is suing the 20-year-old for ‘damages for emotional distress, humiliation, loss of enjoyment of life, and other pain and suffering on all claims.’

Grosskreutz ‘must live with the physical and emotional wounds inflicted by Defendant Rittenhouse and the Defendants who deputized and enabled him,’ the lawsuit says.

A man has been charged with second-degree murder for allegedly shooting a home invader on Feb. 19 in Milton, Ont., the latest in a string of similar confrontations across Canada.

This sounds like a legitimate application of reasonable force.