U.S. gun lobbies: The inmates have taken over the asylum
Jan 24, 2011Gerry CaplanWhy is the United States so much more violent than Canada? Canadians receive, even welcome, violence-based American mass culture, yet our society remains dramatically less...
View ArticleU.S. political extremism leads to violence
Feb 9, 2011Jerry WestIt is plain to all but the most naive that the course of political discourse in the U.S. over the past few years was going to lead to something insane like the Giffords shooting.
View ArticleA gun control model for Canada?
Mar 21, 2011Gerry CaplanSince a rampaging Jared Loughner murdered six fellow Americans and wounded congresswoman Gabby Giffords and 12 others in Tucson, Arizona, Americans have assiduously been working...
View ArticleMothers of gun violence victims call for help to save the gun registry this...
May 6, 2011Mothers for Gun ControlIn response to the recent election, we, the mothers of victims of gun violence, call on politicians to stand up for public safety. This Mother's Day we call on...
View ArticleHow the U.S. is fueling its own 'war on drugs'
Jun 15, 2011Amy GoodmanThe violent deaths of Brian Terry and Juan Francisco Sicilia have sparked separate but overdue examinations of the so-called War on Drugs, and how the U.S. government is...
View ArticleHill Dispatches: Quebec fights back on guns
Nov 17, 2011Karl NerenbergQuebec Government wants the feds to give it the gun data that was collected in Quebec. And if the feds refuse? "We'll see," Quebec minister says.
View ArticleBill C-19: Victims of gun violence and women's safety experts outraged by the...
Feb 15, 2012Coalition for Gun ControlMembers of Parliament are expected to vote today to send Bill C-19 to the Senate, which, if passed, ends the long-gun registry and destroys all long-gun data...
View ArticleThe need for better gun control laws in the U.S.
Jul 26, 2012Amy GoodmanPerhaps, if sane laws on gun control, including the ban on high- capacity magazines, were in place, many in Aurora who are now dead or seriously injured would be alive and well...
View ArticleObama administration blocks UN arms trade treaty
Aug 2, 2012Amy GoodmanThe UN has pledged to resume the effort to pass an arms trade treaty, despite the intransigence of the country that Martin Luther King Jr. called "the greatest purveyor of...
View ArticleThe politics of gun control in the U.S.
Aug 9, 2012Amy GoodmanAnother mass murder, another shooting spree, leaving bodies bullet-riddled by a legally obtained weapon. This time, it was Wisconsin, at a Sikh temple, as people gathered for...
View ArticleThe growing power of the Canadian gun lobby
Dec 18, 2012Linda McQuaigThe intense Canadian political focus on the federal gun registry may have ultimately been a distraction from an even bigger gun issue -- the ready availability of combat...
View ArticleBringing gun control to a nation of guns
Apr 5, 2013Amy GoodmanNew federal gun-control legislation has been declared all but dead on arrival this week. Gridlock in the U.S. Senate is proving to be an insuperable barrier to any meaningful change.
View ArticleTwenty years after Port Arthur Massacre, Australia shows gun control works
Jun 16, 2016Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanThe largest massacre in Australia's post-colonial history so shocked the nation that within 12 days, comprehensive gun-control law was brought in. There has not...
View ArticleAlberta's Derek Fildebrandt wades into gun control debate with defiant Tweet
Jan 21, 2019David J. ClimenhagaIn response to federal Liberal discussions about a handgun ban, the former UCP MLA tweeted, "no matter what the feds do, they will never get their hands on mine."
View ArticleAlberta MP launches petition to make House of Commons stop calling assault...
Mar 4, 2021David J. ClimenhagaYou can mock Alberta Conservative politicians, but it is nearly impossible to parody them. Fortunately, they do that themselves without prompting. Sometimes twice in one...
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