great letter, Ladies!

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LETTER: International Coalition for Women in Shooting and Hunting (WiSH)
Date: Jun 21, 2006 3:48 PM
PUBLICATION: The Calgary Sun
DATE: 2006.06.21
EDITION: Final
SECTION: Editorial/Opinion
PAGE: 14
COLUMN: Letter of the Day
WORD COUNT: 98

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LETTER OF THE DAY COLUMN

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THE HARPER government should be congratulated for understanding a
symbolic long-gun registry cannot address social ills. (“Gun registry
death tabled,” June 20.)

The ideologically driven registry has not reduced rates of violent
crime, has not improved public safety, and has not prevented criminals
from illicitly obtaining firearms.

It has not protected women, who continue to be beaten, terrified, and
killed by abusive partners, while women’s shelters remain underfunded.

Massive ongoing expenditure of public funds upon an ineffective system
achieves nothing more than the misdirection of resources away from where
they are urgently needed — social services, education, health care and
policing.

Samara McPhedran, Chairwoman
International Coalition for Women in Shooting and Hunting (WiSH)