The measure of a free country is not how many flags it flies, but how free *its people* are from government infringement of its common rights - not the least of which is the RIGHT of self-defence, and the concomitant means needed to do so!

Under the CURRENT COMMON Law, you have a inalienable RIGHT to bear arms, and to carry for a lawful purpose..... This is the eternal law that was preserved in our Magna Carta, and under this SUPREME LAW you CAN NOT be made a criminal/outlaw for exercising your RIGHT. So why are you afraid to do so? Should the police be found ignorant and unlawfully charge you, its the law and a jury of your peers that will judge you... not them. That is, at least, what THE LAW says....... Under 'rule of law' even government (especially them actually) are accountable to the law, and must obey - or they become illegitimate.

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." -- Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The story of my experiments with truth, by M.K. Gandhi, p.238)

"In total, during the first eighty-eight years of this century, almost 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners. The dead could conceivably be nearly 360 million people. It is as though our species has been devastated by a modern Black Plague. And indeed it has, but a plague of Power, not of germs." - Dr. R. J. Rummel, Death by Government.

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the people's liberty's teeth." -- George Washington

"Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience." -- John Locke

Think of YOUR right to bear arms this way.... ANY government is a potential assailant.... and there is no principled argument by which a "potential assailant" could regulate or restrict the ability of a victim to protect themselves. - BCRevolution
 

"It‘s better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have it."  - unknown author.

"I carry a handgun, because a cop is too heavy and too slow" - unknown author.

Armed Citizens Make Fewer Mistakes Than Police

Don't think that just because the police are "trained" in the use of firearms that they are less likely to kill an innocent person. A University of Chicago Study revealed that in 1993 approximately 700,000 police killed 330 innocent individuals, while approximately 250,000,000 private citizens only killed 30 innocent people.

Do the math. That's a per capita rate for the police, of almost 4000 times higher than the population in general.

That number seems excessively high, so let's look at it in a different light.

According to a study by Newsweek magazine, only 2% of civilian shootings involve an innocent person being shot (not killed). The error rate for police is 11%. What this means is that you are more than 5 times more likely to be accidentally shot by a policeman than by an armed citizen. But, when you consider that citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as do police every year, it means that, per capita, you are more than 11 times more likely to be accidentally shot by a policeman than by an armed citizen.

The only question we should perhaps be asking, therefore, is whether we should continue to allow police the privilege of having guns. A privilege we granted them as part of their sworn duty to serve and protect us? They seem to forget this part, so maybe its time to remind them. [Source for data: http://www.actionamerica.org/guns/guns1.shtml]

Cops gun down man for legally carrying firearm - Jeff Knox explains how irrational fear led to police-sanctioned murder - June 1/12
Erik Scott was a West Point graduate who went on to serve honorably in the Army, get his MBA from Duke and establish a lucrative career in real estate and as a sales rep for a medical device company. He was 38 years old when he was gunned down in 2010 in the portico of a Las Vegas area Costco store by officers from the Las Vegas Metro Police Department.

Gun Control Fact Sheet

* Concealed carry laws have reduced murder and crime rates in the states that have enacted them. According to a comprehensive study which reviewed crime statistics in every county in the United States from 1977 to 1992, states which passed concealed carry laws reduced their rate of murder by 8.5%, rape by 5%, aggravated assault by 7% and robbery by 3%.(4)

Crown letting go unlawful use of guns, while targeting lawful use

Please note how Youtube illegally pulled this video... Copyrighted material can

be lawfully republished for educational purposes, and for issues of relevant public

interest, and review.

YOU, on the other hand, will ALWAYS have a legitimate and LAWFUL RIGHT to

defend yourself with arms... Don't let them take it away! Exercise it NOW... and

PLEASE help us to defend this right, and oppose the government brainwashing

and intimidation that is trying to steal it from you.

Does this frighten you even a little bit? Is this your idea of a free country?

Apparently this is the "Conservative" view of Canada, because they have

done nothing to stop this from happening again.

Judge blasts mandatory gun sentences in ruling - National Post Staff  Jun 28, 2011

“The law and bureaucracy surrounding gun possession for self-defence in Canada is very antagonistic,” he said. “It very much discourages individuals … in situations where their lives are being threatened and having a gun available would be of some use.”

Police spot-checked Everett while he was walking near Winnipeg’s Central Park in November, 2008, and he immediately admitted having a loaded firearm in his waistband. He put his hands in the air and allowed police to take the weapon. Mr. Everett explained he’d already dodged several bullets since moving to the area after growing up in the remote northern Manitoba community of Tadoule Lake. He said he feared for the safety of himself, his girlfriend and his three young children and bought the Ruger handgun on the black market several months earlier. He has no prior criminal record.

Crown attorney Adam Bergen told court the fact Everett narrowly missed being hit by stray bullets in a previous shooting targeting another man should be of little consequence.

[Please note that the federal "Conservative" party has not lifted a finger to correct this unlawful and unconstitutional infringement of our fundamental right to self defence, and the concomitant right to carry for that lawful purpose, or its probable repeat occurrence. Who's safety is 'Prime Minister' Harper interested in protecting?]

Police caught aiding school shootings. <Link]

Regarding our right to conceal and carry for a lawful purpose, here's a few interesting stats

the government doesn't want you to know....

The FBI's statistics in the 1992 Uniform Crime Report also concluded: "Violent crime rates are highest overall in states with laws limiting or prohibiting the carrying of concealed firearms for self-defense." [1] "The FBI's data also show that in 20 other states that issue CCW permits (including Arizona, Washington, Oregon, Tennessee, Wyoming, and others), these states have enjoyed a REDUCTION in crime as follows: 1) Violent crime rates are LOWER by 21%. 2) Homicide rates are LOWER by 33% 3) Robbery rates are LOWER by 37% and 4) Aggravated assaults are lower by 13%."[2]

States offer selective reciprocity in this area. That is, a permit-holder in one state may be able to carry or transport a weapon in other states with a reciprocity agreement with the home state. Reciprocity does impose on the permit-holder the responsibility for knowing and understanding the differences in the laws between the states.

From the National Self Defense Survey - 1994

Among 15.7% of gun defenders interviewed nationwide during The National Self Defense Survey, the defender believed that someone "almost certainly" would have died had the gun not been used for protection -- a life saved by a privately held gun about once every 1.3 minutes. (In another 14.2% cases, the defender believed someone "probably" would have died if the gun hadn't been used in defense.)

In 83.5% of these successful gun defenses, the attacker either threatened or used force first

In 91.7% of these incidents the defensive use of a gun did not wound or kill the criminal attacker

In 73.4% of these gun-defense incidents, the attacker was a stranger to the intended victim.

In over half of these gun defense incidents, the defender was facing two or more attackers

In 79.7% of these gun defenses, the defender used a concealable handgun. A quarter of the gun defenses occured in places away from the defender's home.

http://www.pulpless.com/gunclock/noframedex.html

How Often Are Firearms Used in Self-Defense? [Guncite website]

Lawrence Southwick, Jr., Guns and Justifiable Homicide: Deterrence and Defense - concludes there are at least 400,000 "fewer violent crimes due to civilian self-defense use of guns" and at least "800,000 violent crimes are deterred each year because of gun ownership and use by civilians."

Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that violent crime decreased 4 percent in 2011. The number of murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults all went down, continuing a pattern.

“This is not a one-year anomaly, but a steady decline in the FBI’s violent-crime rates,” said Andrew Arulanandam, spokesman for the National Rifle Association. “It would be disingenuous for anyone to not credit increased self-defense laws to account for this decline.”

Mr. Arulanandam pointed out that only a handful of states had concealed-carry programs 25 years ago, when the violent-crime rate peaked. Today, 41 states either allow [sic] carrying without a permit or have “shall issue” laws that make it easy for just about any noncriminal to get a permit.

The Police: No Duty To Protect Individuals - (Warren v. D.C.)

Tory forced to resign over assertion of our right to carry for lawful self defence - Sept 21/08

Police caught trying to cause riot at NAU/SPP meeting!

• More states sanction deadly force
• The Empire Turns Its Guns on the Citizenry

Church shooting highlights need to increase recognition of our right to carry. Finally we aren't just helpless disarmed targets....

Volunteer church member with conceal carry certificate saves dozens of lives.... December 12/2007

Boyd said Assam was the one who suggested the church beef up its security Sunday following the Arvada shooting, which it did. The pastor credited the security plan and the extra security for preventing further bloodshed.

Boyd said there are 15 to 20 security people at the church. All are volunteers but the only ones armed are those who are *licensed to carry weapons. [*A license in this sense regards the fact that the Church is private property]

Texas School District Will Let Teachers Carry Guns - Published August 15, 2008
 

Disarming people a disaster
The Ottawa Citizen - July 18, 2007

Many thanks to Andrea Hannen and to the Citizen for running a letter on the
controversial subject of permits for carrying concealed weapons and self-defence.

It is obvious that the current method of disarming potential victims is a complete
disaster. All this does is give the thug the knowledge that his intended target is
defenseless. One only has to look to Britain to see the failure of this method.

Some will say that allowing prescreened, qualified citizens to carry pistols or
pepper spray for their self-defence is wrong, as this will only add to the problem.
The big flaw in this thinking is that the bad guy already does carry weapons.

Those who would plan to commit rape and murder are not going to be deterred by a few
more rules, while the good citizen with a clean record is forced to choose between
getting her first criminal charge, or getting mugged, raped or killed.

As Ms. Hannen correctly notes, Canada has a provision for someone to carry a handgun
for self-defence. It is called an Authorization to Carry, type 3 or ATC-3 (type 1 is
open carry for armoured car guards, and type 2 is wilderness carry for surveyors and
others).

Unfortunately for the past victims of violence, the ATC-3 is generally reserved for
judges and politicians. It seems mere citizens need not apply, as there are plenty
more to replace those lost to violence.

This is wrong, and must change.
Dean Rosby, Langley, B.C.

Not only is it indeed wrong Dean, but contrary to the law of the land....

39. No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or disseized, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed--nor will we go upon or send upon him--save by the lawful judgment of his peers [for example] by the law of the land. ["Law of the land" means our anglo-saxon common law which became part of the Magna Carta itself - forever]

Go here to see what remedy this document freely authorizes in the event this law is infringed or violated. Yet another principled AND LAWFUL justification for YOUR RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS!!!

911 operator: ‘I really just don’t give a sh*t what happens to you’ <[Link to video]

A Nashville woman who waited [three] hours for someone to respond to her call to 911 emergency services didn’t hear the worst part of the call... Furthermore, her call was even postponed for a traffic violation deemed "more important" as the screaming woman explained that her boyfriend was about to break in an kill her.

Laughing Mountie faces discipline over botched gunshots investigation - By Gary Dimmock, Postmedia News January 19/2011

OTTAWA — It was hardly a laughing matter, but before British Columbia RCMP Const. Mike White responded to a shots-fired call in the fall of 2008, he chuckled about it in a radio call with the dispatcher — twice.

White then headed to the subdivision where a 911 caller had reported six gunshots. He never got out of his car to interview the caller, let alone to search the Mission, B.C., neighbourhood. The officer gave it 13 minutes of his time before leaving to respond to another call that Sept. 18 night.

Across the street from the 911 caller's house, Lisa Dudley, 37, and her boyfriend, Guthrie McKay, lay wounded and dying in their own home.
 

Jury defends our unalienable right to use guns for self defence in cop shooting.