Letter: International Coalition for Women in Shooting and Hunting
Date: Apr 21, 2006 4:52 PM
PUBLICATION: The Ottawa Citizen
DATE: 2006.04.21
EDITION: Final
SECTION: News
PNAME: Letters
PAGE: A13
BYLINE: Samara McPhedran
SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen
WORD COUNT: 97

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Simplicity appeals

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Re: Pressure on Conservative MPs to scrap gun registry, April 16.

Gun prohibitionists would do well to acknowledge the need to ensure
adequate funding for intervention strategies and support services,
instead of touting gun laws as a solution to social problems.
Ideologically based anti-gun rhetoric, while appealing in its
simplicity, does not address the causes of violent behaviour, and cannot
prevent violence. Dogmatic insistence that gun laws are a substitute for
effective policy simply encourages the misdirection of scant resources.

Samara McPhedran,
Victoria, Australia,
International Coalition for Women in Shooting and Hunting