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One Bronx man faces more than 300 gun-related charges

One Bronx man faces more than 300 gun-related charges

Shakor Rodriguez has been charged with a total of 304 counts, including criminal sale and possession of a firearm and criminal possession of a weapon, according to two indictments filed in the Bronx Supreme Court. According to the DA, the 23-year-old was attending Austin Pay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, while allegedly smuggling illegal weapons to the Bronx and Manhattan. Rodriguez…

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REI joins gun-related boycott of major Utah outdoor gear company

REI joins gun-related boycott of major Utah outdoor gear company

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A major Utah outdoor-gear supplier is facing widespread calls for boycotts over its ties to the gun industry — and on Thursday, retail giant REI announced it was joining the movement.

Farmington-based Vista Outdoor owns about 50 gear brands, ranging from Camelbak hydration packs to Bolle sunglasses and Camp Chef outdoor cooking equipment.

It also sells assault-rifle-style “modern…

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CDC: Gun-related deaths in U.S. climb for second straight year The rate of gun deaths in the United States rose for the second straight year in 2016, after more than a decade of remaining relatively flat, according to data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).In 2016, about 38,000 Americans died from gun-related wounds — a death rate of about 12 per 100,000 people.

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Yes, speaking up for gun control is a doctor's business

Advocating for policies on death and injury prevention has long been a part of medicine

ANDRÉ PICARD, The Globe and Mail 

February 19, 2019

Canadian gun owners - or, more precisely, the small minority of National Rifle Association-wannabes who claim to speak for them - have a new target: Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns, a group that has the audacity to say gun violence is a public health issue.

The CDPG, whose members are mostly emergency-room doctors and trauma surgeons who see the devastation wrought by guns firsthand, have come out in support of Bill C-71, proposed firearms legislation that is being debated in Parliament. They have also called for a ban on handguns and assault rifles.

In response, the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights and TheGunBlog.ca have lashed out, arguing physicians have no business taking a stand on guns and that they should "stay in their lane." (This is a parroting reference to an infamous tweet by the National Rifle Association in the United States back in November that said: "Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane.") Doctors responded to that selfrighteous snarkiness with an impromptu online campaign with the hashtag #ThisIsMyLane and the creation of new advocacy groups such as the CDPG.

But the online world is, in many ways, a cesspool. The group's founder, Najma Ahmed, a trauma surgeon at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, has been subject to a barrage of misogynist and racist attacks, along with wildly inaccurate claims that she and her colleagues are "urging the government to ban and seize guns from federally licensed hunters, farmers and sports shooters."

Let's be clear about one thing: Physicians have every right to advocate for gun control, just as they have done in the past to lobby for anti-smoking measures, tougher impaired driving legislation, seat-belt laws and so on.

In fact, one could argue, as dean of the faculty of medicine of the University of Toronto Trevor Young does, that: "Advocacy has always been an essential part of the practice of medicine."

While not everyone agrees that stricter gun laws are needed in Canada, what CDPG is advocating is hardly radical, and they present some compelling evidence about the horrors of gun violence that back up their anecdotal experience.

There were 266 gun-related homicides in Canada in 2017.

That pales in comparison to the gun-mad United States, with 14,542 gun-related homicides, but it isn't insignificant.

There are also close to 700 gunrelated suicides in Canada annually and a dozen or so deaths by accidental discharge, most of them children who find improperly stored guns. And for every death, there are ten- or twentyfold the number of injuries.

That said, the vast majority of Canada's 2.1 million registered gun owners use their firearms responsibly, for hunting, pest control and target shooting; they are not violent criminals or hapless Elmer Fudds. Most of them also accept, although perhaps grudgingly, that regulations and laws about transport and storage of firearms are necessary or, at least, justifiable.

Is there too much bureaucracy? Probably.

But paperwork is a symptom of modern life in risk-averse times, and it is not a burden felt solely by gun owners. Gun ownership is a privilege, not an unfettered right, and filling out some forms is a fair price to pay.

Bill C-71, if enacted, would result in some modest legislative tweaks related to background checks, record-keeping requirements for retailers and restrictions on carrying a firearm.

And let's not forget that the previous Conservative government abolished the long-gun registry, so firearms legislation has actually been watered down.

The other positions of the CDPG are not in the cards for political debate. A ban on assault weapons is, arguably, already in place. There are three classes of firearms in Canada - non-restricted, restricted and prohibited. Assault weapons - meaning automatic and some semi-automatic arms - are prohibited, for the most part.

The doctors' call to ban handguns is the most intriguing of all.

There are an estimated 900,000 handguns in Canada, and close to 500,000 registered owners of these restricted weapons.

Yet, there isn't a lot of hunting with handguns - except of humans. About 60 per cent of gunrelated homicides are with handguns. As one of the Western countries with the highest rates of gun violence, we should ask ourselves if there is a place for handguns in Canada, other than in the hands of law-enforcement officials.

When you reframe the debate as being about public health rather than uniquely about property rights, the discussion becomes richer and more nuanced. And that's just what the doctor ordered.

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REI joins gun-related boycott of major Utah outdoor gear company

REI joins gun-related boycott of major Utah outdoor gear company

[ad_1] A major Utah outdoor-gear supplier is facing widespread calls for boycotts over its ties to the gun industry — and on Thursday, retail giant REI announced it was joining the movement. Farmington-based Vista Outdoor owns about 50 gear brands, ranging from Camelbak hydration packs to Bolle sunglasses and Camp Chef outdoor cooking equipment. It also sells assault-rifle-style “modern sporting”…

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The scourge of gun-related crimes in Barbados and the rest of the Caribbean has been characterized by a High Court judge as a “blight” across the region. And Justice Carlisle Greaves has maintained that the law courts have no alternative but to impose heavy sentences on the perpetrators to assist in keeping communities safe. The judge was speaking as he sentenced Andre Lord Evil Jackman, Kaeron Sylvian Moore and Shane Hakeem Omar Babb, all St Lucy residents, to 25 years in prison, on gunrelated crimes. The men had been found guilty earlier in the criminal assizes on several charges including having an illegal firearm in their possession and unlawfully and recklessly engaging in conduct that placed two men in danger of death or serious bodily harm on September 30, 2018. Justice Greaves charged that despite having persons convicted of similar crimes in Barbados almost two decades ago, gunmen still appear to be “confident and arrogant” enough in this jurisdiction to escalate their gun terror. “It is evident that these courts must enforce and reinforce their intolerance of this activity and by their sentences seek to persuade the perpetrators to abandon their folly. “The scourge of tit for tat shootings and in particular gang or gang associate shootings is a blight across the Caribbean region, from Bermuda in the north, to Guyana in the south, and indeed across the Commonwealth and beyond. “It is evident that once they catch hold in a jurisdiction, they escalate and become almost impossible to reduce or eliminate.” The High Court judge added: “Perhaps that may be because so many victims fall to the violence that those associated with them dwell in a perpetual state of fear and vengeance and develop an attitude of vengeance or of it’s either me or you. Thus the escalation, difficult to eradicate.” Such crimes, he explained, contribute to the “trauma” of a society and “scare and intimidate” its citizens into fear of cooperating with the police and courts and thus provide fertile ground for the culprits to grow stronger at the expense of the community. Read the rest of the article in the comment section below 👇🏾 https://www.instagram.com/p/CWdiOUSh3br5npNEafqgdRSGOV_YMCQzyPwtOg0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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