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People generally don't need a gun to be violent and kill someone. They only need the violence intention as a domestic abuser, if that can be manifest.

Low crime rates-

in non-gun owning countries? This explains why.

Regarding Japan, it is true that they have very strict gun controls (all weapons, really) and they have very low crime rates (about 1 per 100,000 homicide rate). However, one must realize that Japan is a virtual police state: the police can search you or your house on a whim, if they beat a confession out of you, it will stand up in court, you have no right to not testify against yourself, you have no right to a trial by jury and you have no right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. Clearly, it is not their gun controls that keep crime low in Japan, it is their lack of personal freedom.

Coming soon-

To a courthouse near you.

Conservative who published Prophet cartoons faces rights commission
Calgary Herald
Published: Thursday, January 10, 2008
CALGARY - Outspoken conservative commentator Ezra Levant will be before the Alberta Human Rights Commission Friday defending his former magazine's 2006 publication of a series of Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

Members of Calgary's Muslim community were outraged when Levant's now-defunct publication, the Western Standard, published the cartoons in February 2006, shortly after their initial appearance in a Danish newspaper led to rioting and protests around the world.

Syed Soharwardy, president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, later filed a complaint against the Western Standard to the Alberta Human Rights Commission.


Ezra Levant was publisher of the now-defunct Western Standard.
Calgary Herald file

Levant, the magazine's former publisher, will be on the hot seat today in Calgary during a commission investigation - a process he calls an ''interrogation'' - in which he'll be questioned extensively about the publication of the cartoons.

The human rights commission could then order a full hearing into the matter if it deems it necessary, he said.

''I object to the whole proceeding. It doesn't have any moral authority,'' Levant said Thursday in an interview.

''Free speech is a human right.''

Soharwardy, who isn't expected at the proceeding, couldn't be reached for comment Thursday.






?¿½ Canwest News Service 2008

Obama-

Strongly Opposes topic 10:
Absolute right to gun ownership
(-5 points on Economic scale) Keep guns out of inner cities--but also problem of morality: Strongly Opposes topic 10
Ban semi-automatics, and more possession restrictions: Strongly Opposes topic 10
NO on prohibiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers: Strongly Opposes topic 10