When criminal violence strikes, no one is coming to save you. That’s the uncomfortable truth most people don’t want to face.
It’s not because police or regular folks don’t care. It’s impossible for anyone to predict it and be there in the terrible moment when violence strikes.
The Gun Violence Archive is the preferred source for information among almost every media outlet I seem to come across. There are a handful of exceptions, but those are generally outlets that have their own tracking efforts.
Interestingly, every single one of those tends to have a far lower number of things like mass shootings than the Gun Violence Archive has.
The accused listened to proceedings with his eyes closed and his mouth open.
It appeared that 43-year-old Richard Edwin, whose trial began this week, was heavily medicated with antipsychotic drugs.
Certainly projecting as narcotized — someone in need of mental stabilizing — would be fitting when the core substance of the defence is that Edwin should be found not criminally responsible (NCR) in the shooting deaths of two men he didn’t even know within a span of two days in downtown Toronto in 2022.
The chances of being shot by some drugged up rando remains pretty remote in Canada.
But it is impossible for the police to bend space and time to protect you when you’re being victimized.
At best you’ll likely contribute a positive stat to the TPS’ excellent homicide closure rate.
In this instance the shooter was in possession of legally obtained weapons despite a history of mental illness.
Who do gun laws protect? Not you and not me.
They make life easier for criminals who appreciate the unlikely possibility of return fire.
In the effort to maintain the state’s monopoly on violence you’re just unarmed collateral damage.
Public Safety Canada has announced that the amnesty period for owners of recently designated prohibited firearms has been extended by another year, to Oct. 30, 2026.
The federal department said on Oct. 15 that licensed owners and businesses who possess prohibited, “assault-style” firearms must dispose of or deactivate them before the amnesty period expires, “or risk criminal liability for the illegal possession of a prohibited firearm.”
Instead of crushing crime and those who commit it, Ottawa insists on focusing its wrath on the compliant.
The Liberal government’s Firearms Confiscation Compensation Program is a monument to this stupidity.
Broken trust with government and its citizens is the result.
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On October 1, gunfire ripped through a Laval Starbucks.
Charalambos “Bobby the Greek” Theologou, gang leader, drug trafficker, repeat offender, was executed in front of undercover police officers.
“A team of at least five cars, including an operations supervisor, was deployed on the ground to monitor Theologou’s movements. Around ten police officers were therefore observing the gang leader.”
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It never fails to amaze me how many defensive gun uses never capture the attention of national media, no matter how compelling the circumstances might be. Take this recent incident out of Florida that I stumbled across, for example. An armed felon drags a woman at gunpoint into a grocery store, only to be confronted and ultimately disarmed by an employee who had a gun of her own.
The federal government’s gun buyback pilot project to compensate legal owners who turn in prohibited firearms is facing opposition in Cape Breton, N.S., where it’s being rolled out.
“They got us backed into a corner,” says John Campbell, owner of The Bullet Box, a gun store and indoor range in Sydney, Cape Breton.
Campbell started his business six years ago out of a passion for sport shooting.
Now, he says his six-year-old business faces closure.
An estimated 250 rally-goers gathered in Sydney on Thursday to let the Cape Breton Regional Police Service chief and federal government officials know they’re wasting their time and money on a federal buyback program targeting prohibited firearms.
“It’s a waste of police resources and of tax dollars,” said Tracey Wilson, vice-president of public relations for the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights, who flew in from Ottawa to attend the rally outside the Myles F. Burke Police Headquarters on Grand Lake Road.
Audio isn't great, but here's a look from @TWilsonOttawa's view of today's Cape Breton Rally against the Liberals gun confiscation.
Organized by @MorienPort President, Jeff McNeil!
MP @BlaineFCalkins and lawyer @nnamanley were onsite to support Cape Bretoners and supporters! pic.twitter.com/64DJbxozaM
— CCFR/CCDAF (@CCFR_CCDAF) October 2, 2025
Is CZ (Through Colt Canada) The Company Destroying Guns For the Canadian Gun Ban?
h/t Neocon
The federal government’s Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme is not about public safety. It’s about control, optics, and votes.
Canadians aren’t stupid.
They know the difference between chasing violent criminals and harassing law-abiding sport shooters.
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The Liberal Party of Canada, like all political parties, makes its share of mistakes. But there often seem to be moments where Liberals don’t learn any lessons from past political blunders. They go back to the well to find a single drop of water to help quench their thirst.
The most recent example? The Liberal gun ban and buyback plan to compensate gun owners who turn in banned firearms. Even the minister in charge seems to realize this program is badly flawed.
It was obvious to anyone familiar with the data that the government’s ban on assault-style weapons was never going to make Canada safer. The poor implementation of the policy now means that it will likely end up making Canada more dangerous.
The government’s justification for the ban was weak from the beginning. When former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first announced the prohibition by Order-in-Council in the aftermath of the Nova Scotia massacre, significant problems were already clear. The government could not define what they wanted to ban. Instead, they created a laundry list of infamous guns with equivalent firearms left out.
There are two very simple ways to deduce what a member of cabinet truly thinks about his or her government’s schemes. The first method is to infer what any right-minded, reasonably informed person would think about, say, blowing three-quarters of a billion dollars (plus administrative costs) to confiscate legally owned guns, which we know are not being used in the vast majority of firearms-involved crimes on Canadian streets. The second method is to get ministers in a room where they believe no one is listening, and to let them know it’s safe to use their brains and not their centrally conceived talking points.
OTTAWA — Police across Canada say they are unsure whether they will participate in the federal firearms buyback, with many reporting a lack of detail from government officials.
It comes as time is ticking down to when the federal Liberal government plans to expand the compensation process being piloted in Nova Scotia nationwide later this fall, aimed at gun owners who possess one of the more than 2,500 firearm makes and models the government has banned since 2020.
Below is the full transcript of the leaked conversation between Gary Anandasangaree and his tenant, where he revealed that he doesn’t believe in his own program. Take a look
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Gary: I've got to tell you something else. You may not be happy with it. We're…— Larry Brock (@LarryBrockMP) September 25, 2025
H/T Mauser
The federal Liberals will finally start buying back guns with a pilot program in Cape Breton, N.S. — about as far from Alberta as they can get without leaving Canada.
They might fear a range war when this fiasco finally moves west.
