"OTTAWA, April 20, 2011 – The Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) believes that gun control is an important measure to help prevent public violence and in particular, violence against women. Most firearm-related deaths in Canada are caused by rifles or shotguns. These are the guns most used in domestic violence."
According to this report, abolishing the registry may save us between $1.5 to $4 million per year, but money incurred as a result of deaths and injury by firearms was estimated at $6.6 billion in 1995.
We know that a registry alone will not stop violence, but we need more conversations about violence, about the cause of domestic violence to match the steady news reports of violent deaths in our nation.
Since the Harper Government has slashed funding for women’s groups that attempt to deal with this issue and also proposes to slash the gun registry - how will they, if elected, support safety and uphold the value of life?
To what extent is violence nature or nurture and what are the socially aggravating factors that lead some people to harm their own families?
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