One thinks itself above the law and the other acts outside of it. We poor bastards whom obey it are left with nothing. Well, for any idea to gain traction it takes individuals taking action to ensure it does. The more of us who make our voices known the better. Our laws, enacted in the name of the Crown, are our legal protection against both Royal and democratic usurpation of those rights.
Are you aware that the Canadian Constitution was never ratified because not all Provinces signed off on it? So, the only true rights we possess are Common Law and God-given rights. I would like to express my opinion to you about gun control. I am a law abiding citizen, and while I do not currently own a firearm, I am looking to purchase one very soon.
I was very glad to see the long gun registry scrapped. It is of my opinion that the handgun registry should be scrapped as well, and along with it, the need for responsible, law abiding handgun owners to have to go blind filling out paper work every time they want to go to the range to compete or for leisure. Criminals intent on obtaining firearms, and using firearms in the commission of crimes are quite frankly NOT going to jump through all the legal hoops the rest of us are forced to do.
Gun registry does not stop criminals who obtain firearms illegally. It only punishes the law abiding. But because he responded to that threat with a firearm, even though he shot no one, crown prosecutors tried to hang him. It is for that and other reasons, that I ask you to support the right of law abiding citizens to enjoy their shooting sports and hunting without all the undue and unnecessary paperwork and expense that is incurred, by advocating to repeal the handgun registry and the ATT.
I also ask you to support the right of Canadians to be able to protect themselves all threats, man or beast by advocating for individuals, who so choose, the right to carry a handgun or other firearms.
There is a proven statistical correlation between being allowed to carry and conceal, and lower incidence of violent crimes, in areas of the United States that allow it. To put it bluntly, if i were the type of person who liked to mug people, or break into peoples houses, or rob a store, I would be more inclined to do so here in Canada, as I would say, in Texas.
Canadians are in general, much easier targets for violent crime, because the criminals know that basically only police officers, and now CBSA officers, carry weapons. I totally agree with your comments they are true and factual We have to start some sort of group to get this point across. There are supposedly 20 million registeted firearms in Canada and an unknown number unregistered. This applies to marriages, berths of children, and things like cars, aircraft, and probably all private property.
So, why register your weapon? What is your incentive for doing so? Avoiding a fine? I would prefer, as King David said, to be a living dog, than a dead lion.
Anyone seeking to harm me or my loved ones is going to go down first; registered weapon or not. Are you in favor of people registering their kitchen knives, or garden shovels, too? Hello Christopher, I like your article. Maybe the NRA would find value in promoting and defending this idea in Canada if it represented more membership for their organization. Their clout and legal teams would certainly help the effort move forward.
We need this to move forward, quickly. Work, people. Push it forward. They can share information but their lobbying efforts are restricted to protecting and defending American rights and freedoms. Canadians or citizens of any other nation are welcome to join the NRA but the only benefit is information, not political action in those countries. February 8, I feel the same way as many of you here do. The USA was smart backing up their 1st Amendment with the 2nd. If you wish to support 2.
I belong to the first 2 plus NRA member-at-large. Bill C and Orders In Council etc. Time to get involved, write letters, emails, petitions and speak out.. Freedom is not given Freely to Mankind. It must be Fought For, Protected and Defended at all times. Right about the NRA. Too bad. Two billion wasted on the long gun reg? The USA is a better country than canuckistan will ever be.
I detest canada now. It is wrong to detest Canada. Nationally and in many provinces we have bad political leadership, but there are exceptions: Alberta, for one. I am nearly 70 and grew up in Cape Breton before moving to BC. I learned to shoot in Nova Scotia, with the cub scouts and Boy Scouts. Our scoutmaster was a hunter and brought his rifles in from time to time so we could safely familiarize ourselves with them.
Even some of my ten and twelve year old friends had their own. Redneck parents? Hell, when I was a kid there was no gun crime. Most families owned a few riffles and a shotgun or two. That was normal. Anyone with Scout training was fully capable of understanding the responsibility of using firearms, and also capable of helping defend the family if that was required.
No wonder the PC crowd had to get rid of the Scouting movement. The PC crowd would prefer to have trans soyboys or lesbian feminists teaching sexual practices to children to sensitize them as young as possible for grooming, like that Teddy Tam who is a de facto male. Both provide excellent magazines and online publications that are worth reading. Our thinking is that the American NRA will be the last bastion of firearms ownership: when it goes down there is no organization on the planet left to support the flame of legal firearms ownership.
We both look upon our skills in teaching about firearms and if necessary using them in support of the Crown. Yes I like your article. I believe the right to keep and bear arms is a God given right, not a Magna Carta or constitution right. Whatever a constitution can give it can take away. The Charter of Rights is not a constitution. A Charter is the by laws of a corporation. So quite possibly the consititution of the United States of America is our constitution. That puts us squarely under the 2nd Amendment.
However, constitution or not, a God given right to keep and bear arms for sustenance, defence of self and family and protection of property cannot be enfringed or adrogated by no man made government.
A right is not a privilege. Take it up with the Creator God Almighty who gave us the right to life and the protection of that life. There should never even be a discussion on it. Respectfully, Canada is listed as a Government, not a registered corporation.
Corporations can only be created by the Monarch, through the provinces or federal government. The U. And the Securities cannot create corporations either. I hope this briefly clarifies this issue. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal rejected this exact argument in For instance, he mentions the reluctance of John A.
Macdonald to support proposed gun controls in the s because of his belief in a right to possess arms for self-defence. However, Robson fails to note that references to such a right were relatively rare in the nineteenth century, and all but disappeared from political discourse by the early twentieth century.
Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, the comments of a few nineteenth century politicians, even prominent ones, do not establish, in any legal sense, a right to arms in Canada.
The Supreme Court has confirmed that there is no right to possess firearms in Canada. Wiles , the Supreme Court made a similar comment.
Nor does he mention two recent cases, R. Hudson and R. Montague , in which strong opponents of gun control tried to defend themselves in court by arguing that they possessed a right to possess firearms based on English constitutional traditions. They trotted out many of the same arguments used by Robson, but in both cases the defendants lost, definitively. Edward Hudson was a gun rights activist from Saskatchewan who had his unregistered firearm seized.
He appealed his case to the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, which in rejected his claim to a constitutional right to possess his weapon for self-defence grounded in the Bill of Rights and incorporated into Canadian law by the BNA Act. In the second case, Bruce and Donna Montague of Ontario faced multiple charges after police seized over firearms and thousands of rounds ammunition — many hidden in a secret room in the basement of their house.
Like Dr. Hudson, Bruce Montague was a fierce opponent of gun control who welcomed the prospect of a legal fight to establish his right to possess firearms. Bruce appealed his conviction to the Ontario Court of Appeal, where he argued that firearms legislation was constitutionally invalid.
The answer is that there is a substantial market for this kind of analysis, and historians have a duty to call out efforts to manipulate public opinion using things that sound historically accurate.
Several organizations representing Canadian gun owners have asserted a right to possess firearms. As a prominent columnist with strong academic credentials, he lends the appearance of professional and academic rigour to his version of our constitutional history.
His documentary will undoubtedly become a favourite of gun-rights activists in Canada. In fact, Robson will be the keynote speaker at a seminar on the Canadian right to firearms hosted by the Canadian Unlicensed Firearms Owners Association in May In sum, Robson is mostly peddling things that sound true.
But, just because things sound right does not mean that they are correct. Let me be very clear: Canadian courts have decided there is no right to possess a firearm in Canada.
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