The 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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New 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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The 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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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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The 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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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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Coalition 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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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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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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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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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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It 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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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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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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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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Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond talk about Sundance winner A Winter's Bone and Look at American Psycho.
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A look at the gun registry debate is through a "democracy lens."
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The arguments in favour of the gun registry are full of holes. What lies behind the push to keep the registry?
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Fourteen of the sixteen most recent police officers to be killed with guns in Canada were shot with long guns.
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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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Is the gun registry a good use of resources, or does it do more harm than good?
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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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Unflinching journeys into life on the mean streets of Harlem and L.A.
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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??
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