Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns is planning events in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa and St. John's, as well as discussion forums and information sessions in other cities as part of a national day of action.
The group has said it considers gun control a public health issue, and that physicians have a duty to speak out on issues that affect people's safety. Participants are calling on the federal government to pass its gun control legislation, Bill C-71, which is currently before the Senate. The group also wants to see a national ban on private ownership of handguns and assault rifles -- something Bill C-71 does not include.
The Senate committee on national security and defence is holding its final day of testimony on the legislation today.
Annual deaths from guns in Canada. 722 Annual deaths from medical mistakes in Canada. 24,000
So, target the point of entry into Canada? ...of illegal firearms...
This will not solve anything. Go after the people (gangs) that do not follow the law and have non legal guns.
I'm having some trouble with my laundry machine. Think I can get one of these gods to come over and help with that? Or should I call a laundry repair person? I guess the lawmakers aren't doctors and find it all so confusing... let's get lawmakers to try their hand at dotoring!
A woman with a gun will beat a creep without a gun all the time.
How about a national day against medical malpractice?
It is already illegal to have a gun in Canada! Only criminals have them! And they will always have them! So naive...
Maybe a call to action day for the opioid epidemic is better suited for their professional opinions, and their actual involvement in starting the crisis!
This must be the same group of doctors who vowed to never read a single word again after medschool. No wonder they’re so ill-informed.
It’s not the guns itself that we need controlled. There are lots of people with their PAL /RPAL that have no issues it’s the ones I get in the hands of the criminals that are the problem. Why punish thousands of law-abiding gun owners because of the stupidity of those that don’t
Great idea but our Government’s must immediately move to fully fund our physicians and the system. Far to many patients have been cast to the steets and left to their own demise!
Guns suck
Great idea, go after law abiding citizens who's names are pinged every 24 hrs by the RCMP. Ignore the growing criminal influx coming in alongside the legitimate refugees. This is a clear case of taking hunting and sports tools away from those who've earned their rights.
FOCUS ON CRIME. NOT LAW ABIDING GUN OWNERS!
All smoke and mirrors. Doctors just trying to be revelant. Hey Doc. How are you going to take the guns away from the criminals? When John Tory ended Carding, the gun violence sky rocketed. Bring back carding. Pretry simple and I'm not even a Doctor.
Most malpractices are done by the Doctor's right hand. Therefore, based on their gun logic, we should have the right hands removed from all doctors.
So legal gun owners (who don't kill anyone) are the problem? What about doctors that push prescription drugs down everyone's throats? Are they a problem? These doctors are only destroying their credibility by acting as Liberal activists.
The guns un the photo are highly restricted and permitted. These are not the ones used by criminals. You are perpetuating bullshit.
Docs should do something about the root cause of murders! Mental health drug addiction jealously alcohol being fired, and the list goes on and on!
You can ban all the guns you want and still the same amount of people will use guns in crime because law abiding gun owners who go through and respect all the training required to have a pal are not committing crimes. Laws only apply to pal holders. BAD GUYS DONT HAVE PALS!
When is the national day of action to protest medical malpractice or the opioid crisis?
Banning handguns hasn’t worked anywhere and it won’t work here, bad guys don’t obey laws. Legal guns have never been a safety issue here. We have strong storage and transport laws. This is misinformed action. Better to act on the opioid crisis.
Maybe combat opioids you guys prescribe. Kills way more than guns ever have.
Nope. A handful of Doctors are calling on the government to confiscate legal property from law abiding citizens. They are doing nothing to try to reduce crime and stated so yesterday in the Senate.
Ban them all. Period.
Excellent! They can start by marching in the major cities were drugs and gang violence are the problem. Then can ask thugs to politely hand in their firearms. No, wait a minute, we got rid of carding, can't ask anyone anything anymore.
A small group of smug elitist doctors want to confiscate billions of dollars worth of personal property from millions of highly vetted Canadians that have done nothing wrong. It's shameful. It's un-Canadian.
Then they should go preach to the criminals who are killing each other with their illegal weapons. Leave law abiding Canadians alone!
Yup. 130 Canadian gun deaths each year and 2100 killed by auto accidents. Medical error deaths caused by doctors? 30,277 per year in Canada. But guns right?
Dr’s have book smarts but no common sense. They think that by banning handguns criminals will not have them. Just like banned drugs right? We need to get tough on criminals
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Things anti gun lobby doctors won’t talk about: Crime Violence Gangs Knives Root causes At risk youth Economic disparity Terrorism Existing laws Extremism Opioids Things they will: gun bans
Only the extremely stupid and the extremely dangerous support gun bans
GUNS should be BANNED! It takes lives...NOT for hunting..!
Good I hope they march through gangland and f some people up lol but they will target legal gun owners who have not contributed to crime
Lol. You're literally fake news. All of the guns in the image are already illegal in Canada. But by all means, keep telling us more laws will help. Clearly we didn't have the right law to stop a forgein national from smuggling in illegal guns.
Doctors - how about our immigration does something about to combat the gun violence. Stop bringing so many gang bangers to Canada!
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