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Help
for our English-speaking visitors
Site edited by Claire Joly
Thanks
for dropping by. Here's the material in English you will find on this
site.
Write to us !
One of the two main sections of the site features writings by women who speak out against the latest gun control laws in Canada and in other countries. If you understand French, there is much more original material published in Montreal and France available in our "Textes" section. Some recent articles are in the process of being translated.
About C-68, Canada's latest gun control law:
The
Human Cost of the Firearms Act
What’s happening in
Spring 2004).
By Claire Joly
Gun
registry just a fourth-rate policy
Liberals spend $1B to avoid being politically incorrect (National
Post, December 19, 2002).
By Diane Francis
Personal
Information and the Firearms Act
An
ineffective, costly and invasive law: all Canadian gun owners must notify
the police when they move
(English translation of an op-ed published in the Montreal daily Le Devoir,
February 27, 2001).
By Claire Joly
Off
By a Long Shot
What
the Gun Control Debate is Really About
Bill C-68 is really a struggle of cultures, the dividing line in the sand
between an essentially rural and urban constituency
(HighGrader
Magazine, September / October 1997).
By Brit Griffin
Off
the Mark
Gun control will fail to make Canada a better place to
live in and has worrying implications (Next City Magazine, winter
1995).
By Karen Selick
Association
of Women Shooters of Canada on C-68
Brief to the Senate Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs by the
AWSC (November 1995).
Presented by Linda Thom, Judith Ross, Gail Dobney et Kate MacQuarrie
Ontario
Arms Collectors Association
on C-68
Presentation to the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional
Affairs by Dr. Judith Ross (September 21, 1995).
Why
Gun Control is Not the Right Answer
Gun control
laws won't disarm real criminals, prevent rape, stabbings or stop mass
killings like the Polytechnique massacre. They will, however, leave crime
victims less able to defend themselves (Ottawa Citizen, December
4, 1999).
By Claire Joly, Marie Latourelle, Maryse Martin,
Karen Selick
Testosterone
and Gun Control
Canadian Member of Parliament
Pierrette Venne writes in Le Devoir newspaper that opponents of
the last gun control laws are "males in excess of testosterone".
Four women replied in an article that sparked a debate (English
translation of an op-ed published in the Montreal daily Le Devoir,
February 19, 1999).
By Claire Joly, Marie Latourelle, Maryse Martin, Karen Selick
Myths
about Gun Control in Canada
Judith Ross rebuts Canada's
Gun Control Coalition's nine myths about guns and gun laws (in a lengthy
letter to the House of Commons Committee on
C-68, April
27, 1995).
The
Legitimate Uses of Firearms
Serious researchers
have turned up some thought-provoking facts to support the right to own
guns (Canadian Lawyer Magazine, January 1995).
By Karen Selick
Letters to the Editor in Canadian newspapers:
A
futile piece of legislation
Canadian-style
gun control does not institute a culture of peace; it institutes a culture
of surveillance.
By Claire Joly (English translation, originally published in Montréal
daily Le Devoir, July
18, 2001, p. A6).
Off
the Mark
When it comes
to self-defense, I do believe the decision of owning a gun should be left
to each individual.
By Claire Joly (National
Post, April 20, 2000).
Women
of Canada, let's get real
When was the last time
a march or any demonstration of outrage stopped a rapist ?
By Dr. Judith Ross
(Toronto Sun, September 27, 1999).
The
other main section of the site is the "Women and guns page"
("Au féminin") featuring links
to Canadian and French women's associations that promote shooting, hunting
or the right to self-defense. Half the sites on that page are in French,
but our English-speaking visitors may be interested in:
The
Association of Women Shooters of Canada
Outdoor Weekends for Women are held in many Canadian provinces, such as this one hosted by the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters. For similar programs in Atlantic provinces or in the U.S., see Becoming an Outdoors-Woman.
Women Against Gun Control has chapters in different countries, including Italy. Tracey Kleim is director for WAGC-Canada.
Other
"Women and Guns" links
Karen
Selick on Gun Freedom
And
other writings by Karen, for a libertarian point of view on Canadian
current affairs (published in Canadian Lawyer Magazine and major
newspapers).
« Their
Aim Is True » (Reason
Magazine, May 2001)
is an article by Abigail Kohn, a young anthropologist who wanted to study
America's demonized "gun culture". She expected to meet militia
types gun freaks. She soon realized gun owners were ordinary citizens
from all walks of life and that some were women, of course.
AWARE and Mother's
Arms
are two of many US nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping women
find the resources and training to protect themselves from violent crime.
They teach all kinds of self-defense skills including the handling of
firearms - for women threatened in their daily lives, or simply because
they want a gun as a measure of last resort in emergency situations.
.
« How
Gun Control "Worked" in Jamaica »
is an article by Tina Terry. She tells us about her experience of living
through a government-instigated disarmament of the public and its disastrous
consequences (from The Firearms Sentinel of Jews for the Preservation
of Firearms Ownership, fall 1998).
Second
Amendment Sisters
was founded by women to counter the Million Moms March. It now strives
as a major U.S. pro-2nd Amendment national organization.
Our
Links section ("Liens")
includes links to many scholarly articles critical of gun control measures.
All of them are in English.
Thanks for visiting! Write to us.
Web
site hosted by
Alaskan Independence Party
Photo used with permission from
The Annie Oakley Foundation
Thanks to ifeminist.com
for naming our
Editor in Chief, Claire Joly, "individualist feminist of the month"
in
October 2002.
"REAL WOMEN
don't need
BIG BROTHER !"
"Freedom and choice do not threaten women. Government and orthodoxy do."
"It
says a lot about the so-called "women's groups" that they pull for a
gun registry, rather than for more effective use of government resources.
The groups certainly do not speak for women like writer Claire Joly,
who advocates fighting back against violent criminals, rather than persecuting
men."
-- Gary Mauser
& Dave Kopel, "Disaster
Up North",
National Review
on-line,
December 12, 2002.
Based on the Canadian Firearms Center Logo : Canadian gun owners are numbered like cattle and have their privacy violated by an intrusive and revolting questionnaire
Joyce
Lee Malcolm's latest book
Guns
and Violence : The English Experience
is investigating
the real relationship between guns and violence through an historical
study of England, whose strict gun laws and low rates of violent crime
are often cited as proof that gun control works. Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm
is the author of the classic To
Keep and Bear Arms : The Origins of an Anglo-American Right.
Liberty
for Women : Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century,
edited by Wendy McElroy.
Individual feminism, the new feminism, asserts the rights of consenting
adults to their own sexuality, opposes censorship, and believes in every
woman’s right to self-defense. Choice is the key, and every woman’s choices
and expressions of self-ownership must be equally and legally respected.
For more about the individualist feminist tradition, see also Freedom,
Feminism and the State, a book edited by McElroy.
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