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Jun 16, 2016  Twenty years after Port Arthur Massacre, Australia shows gun control worksThe 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 been another mass shooting since. |
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Apr 5, 2013  Bringing gun control to a nation of gunsNew 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. |
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Dec 18, 2012  The growing power of the Canadian gun lobbyThe 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 weapons in Canada. |
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Aug 9, 2012  The politics of gun control in the U.S.Another 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 their weekly worship. |
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Aug 2, 2012  Obama administration blocks UN arms trade treatyThe 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 violence in the world." |
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Jul 26, 2012  The need for better gun control laws in the U.S.Perhaps, 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 today. |
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Feb 15, 2012  Bill C-19: Victims of gun violence and women's safety experts outraged by the expected outcome of today's voteCoalition for Gun Control Members 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 collected since the registry's inception. |
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Nov 17, 2011 Hill Dispatches: Quebec fights back on gunsKarl Nerenberg Quebec 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. |
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Jun 15, 2011 How the U.S. is fueling its own 'war on drugs'The 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 exacerbating the problem. |
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May 6, 2011 Mothers of gun violence victims call for help to save the gun registry this Mother's DayMothers for Gun Control In 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 Canadians to stand up for gun control. |
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Mar 21, 2011 A gun control model for Canada?Gerry Caplan Since a rampaging Jared Loughner murdered six fellow Americans and wounded congresswoman Gabby Giffords and 12 others in Tucson, Arizona, Americans have assiduously been working on Lessons Learned. |
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Feb 9, 2011 U.S. political extremism leads to violenceIt 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. |
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Jan 24, 2011 U.S. gun lobbies: The inmates have taken over the asylumGerry Caplan Why 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 violent than theirs. |
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Jan 19, 2011 It's time for a gun ban in the U.S.Gun shows, the ready access to semiautomatic weapons and the additional availability of extended-capacity magazines are a recipe for the massacres that occur every few years in the United States. |
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Dec 17, 2010 Guns: What the proponents of fortress North America want you to forgetJames Laxer The Canadian proponents of Fortress North America want you to think about the prospect of speedier passage across the Canada-U.S. border for goods and people. |
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Nov 3, 2010 DVD review: Two very different takes on life in the U.S. of A.Reel Women Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond talk about Sundance winner A Winter's Bone and Look at American Psycho. |
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Sep 27, 2010 Gun registry debate showcases Canada's democratic deficitGary Shaul A look at the gun registry debate is through a "democracy lens." |
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Sep 22, 2010 Shooting down the gun registryThe arguments in favour of the gun registry are full of holes. What lies behind the push to keep the registry? |
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Sep 20, 2010 John Baird: A gun in one hand and a cosmo in the otherJames Laxer Fourteen of the sixteen most recent police officers to be killed with guns in Canada were shot with long guns. |
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Sep 13, 2010 Attack on the long-gun registry: An interview with Wendy CukierCathryn Atkinson The president of the Coalition of Gun Control says she fears shooting deaths will rise if the registry is scrapped, and adds the NDP will play the determining role in the final vote. |
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Jul 14, 2010 Canada's gun registry: More harm than good?Is the gun registry a good use of resources, or does it do more harm than good? |
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Apr 16, 2010 Why are the guys with the guns out of control?Murray Dobbin We have witnessed the inexorable transformation of government, from one that based itself on moral imperatives, democratic principles and political integrity, to the corporate model of governance. |
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Apr 5, 2010  DVD Reviews: Precious and Menace II Society - tough lessons on being black and marginalizedReel Women Unflinching journeys into life on the mean streets of Harlem and L.A. |
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Dec 23, 2009 Anarchist rally for masked activists cleverly disguises itself as snowball fight for fun-loving youthNico Little In Washington DC, a plain clothed police detective broke up a snowball fight with a gun. An ABC affiliate news report recast the winter fun as an anti-war rally of masked activists. So what?? |
