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On 7/31/2014 8:37 PM, R. LaCasse wrote:
>
> From: "CSSA-CILA E-News Bulletins."
> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:36:58 -0400
>
> CANADIAN SHOOTING SPORTS ASSOCIATION / CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR LEGISLATIVE
> ACTION
>
> TEAM CSSA E-NEWS - August 1, 2014
>
> ** Please share this E-news with your friends **
>
> COMMENTARY: PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTER BLASTS CFOs FOR MISLEADING PUBLIC
>
> Nearly four years after the CSSA first revealed it, a certain Chief Firearms
> Officer (CFO) in PEI is once again taking serious heat for creating a
“gag”
> photo of her staffers atop a pile of confiscated guns with the
> cutline, “WANTED: GUNS...OR ELSE.”
>
> That photo is coming back to haunt CFO Vivian Hayward for her misleading
> criticism of Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney's proposed Common Sense
> Firearms Licensing Act announced on July 23. Hayward coloured way outside
> the lines by suggesting the minister's changes to current Authorization to
> Transport (ATT) legislation would clear the way for “...the U.S. style
> having the gun on their hip authorization to carry, which people in this
> country don't have.”
>
>
>
> The CFO's anti-gun mantra was delivered to make Canadians quake at the
> mention of the U.S. boogeyman. Oh pull-eeze. Hayward admitted her
> knowledge of Blaney's proposed Act was limited to media coverage, yet
> that didn't prevent her from dissing the plan as soon as there was an
> open mic. Welcome to “The Gong Show Meets Anne of Green Gables.”
>
>
> Hayward was chewed to pieces this week in myriad firearms blogs and media
> commentaries. All we could do is pile on. There is reason, however,
> to highlight the vehement rebuttal provided by Minister Blaney, who
> is waging war against any CFO who tries to dine out on his
> legislative proposals to increase their own stock. The Minister of
> Public Safety's response to the PEI CFO's silly fear-mongering is
> unprecedented by the Harper government – and most welcome. Recent
> developments show they are willing to pull rank on the fifth
> columnists still lurking within the civil service.
>
>
> Blaney's office blasted Hayward and her ilk publicly in this July 28 story
> from Sun News' Bryn Weese:
>
> "Law-abiding firearms owners are sick and tired of harassment by unelected,
> unaccountable provincial firearms officers," Jean-Christophe de
> le Rue, a spokesman for Blaney, told QMI Agency Monday. “This
> official is wrong. And if she had taken a moment to examine our
> government's proposals, she would have seen clearly that there are no
> changes to safe transport requirements. Indeed, owners of restricted
> firearms will continue to be required to lock their firearms in an
> approved container, separate from ammunition, and travel by the most
> direct route to an approved firing range. A responsible CFO would
> have informed herself rather than trying to fear-monger and
> intimidate."
>
>
> Incredibly, there remain a few pro-gun extremists who continue to discredit
> Minister Blaney for what he isn't doing, rather than expressing
> support for his protection of their turf. Gun owners would benefit
> from cooling the threats of abandoning political support for now and
> see what this guy can bring. A little credit where it's due, folks.
>
>
> After a year of getting to know Minister Blaney, the CSSA is grateful to
> him for taking a stand to rein in CFOs. While there remain many more
> firearms laws that require major surgery, he continues to earn his
> reputation as the Lion of LĂ©vis-Bellchasse.
>
>
>
> -------
>
>
> COMMENTARY:
> MEDIA ATTACKS BLANEY FOR DARING TO SAY GUN “RIGHT”
>
>
> The CBC and The Canadian Press (CP) are in a lather that Public Safety
> Minister Steven Blaney dared suggest that gun ownership is “a right
> that comes with responsibilities.”
>
>
> It appears the only opposition the anti-gun media can muster to oppose
> the minister’s proposed Common Sense Firearms Licensing
> Act is a weak personal attack.
> ACP report disguised as news says the minister's statement fails its
> “baloney meter test” because it is at odds with the Supreme Court
> of Canada (SCC) ruling that gun ownership is not a “right” in
> Canada. (See article excerpt below.)
>
>
> The CP story should trip an alarm in every gun owner's baloney meter.
> Everyone knows that the law can be an ass – and the SCC is its
> designated protector. This is not to say we don't need the Supremes
> to defend our current laws on the books, but the CBC and CP are
> claiming that Minister Blaney is wrong based upon the SCC finding.
> Sadly, CP even cites the Firearms Act
> as a source to prove it's point. This trips the siren on our
> credibility meter.
>
>
> The Supreme Court of Canada has no business adjudicating “natural”
> law. The right to protect our lives and the lives of others entrusted
> to our care is natural law. A mother bear attacks to protect her
> cubs. The parents of fledglings take a run at anything that comes
> close to the nest. Humans are limited in their ability to bite,
> scratch, ram and run fast, so we have big brains to create the
> weapons nature denied us to survive. Using firearms to defend and to
> feed ourselves is our natural right, and the minister's statement
> includes the thoughtful caveat that legal firearms access requires
> the application of responsibility.
>
>
> The SCC may be arguably correct when it states that Canada does not have
> a constitutional right to bear arms. That's one more thing gun owners
> in this country should be seeking. The SCC, however, cannot rule that
> Canadians do not have a natural right to bear arms. And keeping ourselves
> and our families safe must surely be within the mandate of a Minister of
> Public Safety. Bottom line, personal protection is not something any
> government can deem impermissible – it is the most ancient instinct that
all
> normal creatures possess.
>
>
>
> So, the CBC, CP and SCC are dead wrong to suggest we don't have the right
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