Letter: Guns and women
Date: Mar 5, 2004 9:16 AM
PUBLICATION: National Post
DATE: 2004.03.05
EDITION: National
SECTION: Editorials
PAGE: A17
BYLINE: Gerry Gamble
SOURCE: National Post

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Guns and women

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Re: Guns and Registries, letter to the editor, March 3.

Letter writer Don Munro makes me wonder if he has ever actually looked at the statistics
on spousal homicide. On average, about 30 Canadian women per year are killed with
firearms, about 15 of which are domestic homicides.

Meanwhile, some 130 men per year are firearm homicide victims. If he is correct
and the $1-billion-plus firearm registry has “everything to do with women feeling
safe in their own homes” and “little to do with ‘bad guys’ doing crime,”
then the Liberals have duped us even worse than we thought.

For a doctor — who surely has seen firsthand the decimation of the health care
system due to government underfunding — to advocate that money spent on a firearm
registry money is a good investment for the well-being of women (or anyone else,
for that matter) is irresponsible beyond belief.

Lastly, while even a small number of spousal homicides is undeniably tragic, the
documented fact that medical mistakes by doctors kill between 4,000 and 10,000 Canadians
a year gives me rise to think that Dr. Munro has some serious problems with his
priorities.

Physician, heal thyself.

Gerry Gamble, St. Catharines, Ont.

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NEWS RELEASE – November 5, 2003
DOMESTIC HOMICIDES CONTINUE TO RISE DESPITE BILLION-DOLLAR GUN REGISTRY
“How many lives could have been saved if the Liberals had spent this money
addressing
the root causes of domestic violence?” asked Breitkreuz

http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/breitkreuzgpress/guns99.htm