federal gun issues

[jim]

Rogers channel 2 . now

[welsh]

The doc on TVO? Up in Arms?

For anyone who missed this, it is airing again, several times, and will be available to stream online on TVO's website as of tomorrow. There will also be a discussion of related issues on The Agenda with Steve Paikin tomorrow at 9 pm.

[kickingfrog]

Taping it. Watching Jays game.

[Mattones]

Watching it now as well. Al Simmions seems to be used a lot thus far,

[MikePal]

For regular TV watches, the show will air again on TVO Fri eve at 10:00...

[Fox]

Taping it. Watching Jays game.

You still have tapes?

[welsh]

You can see it online at this link:
http://tvo.org/video/documentaries/u...canada-feature

[awndray]

http://upinarms.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/upinarmsdoc
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2015/09/22/d...hip-in-canada/

[awndray]

It was a well executed documentary...with a clear anti-gun undertone.


Here's a commentary posted on the Up In Arms Facebook page.

When a copy of a new TVO documentary was sent to me in late August I somehow found reasons not to watch it.

Then I noticed the name of the film maker --Nadine Pequeneza (15 To Life, Bomb Hunters) --and curiosity got the best of me.

I can now report Up In Arms, a stinging commentary on the ominous transition to a gun culture in Canada is must viewing.

One of its strengths is the unusually long length --for contemporary Canadian television.

At 75 minutes it is by far too long for a CBC hour long slot (44 minutes plus 16 minutes of commercials).

So although I believe it is deserving of a national TV network slot I'm still grateful for TVOntario for showing it completely uncut.

You can watch it on TVO Wednesday September 23 at 9 p.m. Got that?

After watching I now believe this is the most important TV show to watch before deciding how you'll cast your ballot in the upcoming federal election --forget those silly and staged leaders' "debates".

My first reaction was one of complete surprise.

I had absolutely no idea the gun lobby was so powerful here --and it is growing by leaps and bounds.

First shock: there are 10 million privately owned guns in Canada.

I had to stop the tape and think about that for a few moments.

Pequeneza has done her homework, yes, and she has a definite point of view.

There's none of that balanced on-the-one-hand and on-the-other-hand.

At the same time she's very fair to everyone concerned.

She goes to gun shows and gets the points of view of the militant gun fanatics. She paints them as concerned and often very loquacious in defense of what they consider their rights.

She follows Tony Bernardo, executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association who is very well versed and hardly a fanatic.

We see how he is trying to get the new gun control act Bill C-42 through Parliament --ironically it is due tro come to a crucial debate just as Parliament is hit by a mad gun man.

Just as compelling is John Evers, Ontario Regional Director for the CSSA.

And considerable time is spent at the gun store run by grandmotherly Pauline Langois whose store Al Simmons Gun Shop has been in the same location for 40 years.

Balanced against these scenes are the ominous feelings of police chief Bill Blair who makes some great points about getting local initiatives started to keep teens off guns.

We get to know 18-year old Alex who grew up in Regent Park, did drugs in the lobby and on stairwells, in a gun culture made possible by illegal guns imported from the U.S.

Strangest scenes? The comments of a convicted U.S. gun smuggler now in a U.S, penitentiary who describes how he got his gun cargoes across an increasingly porous boundary.

The best thing about Pequeneza's approach is her slow, methodical style that gets us right into the debate and her refusal to go for quick fix answers.


She keeps us watching with fine editing and camerawork and her instinctive feeling for what makes the best camera shots.

The new TV season is only just beginning but I'm betting Up In Arms will be a contender for all kinds of awards by season's end.

http://jamesbawden.blogspot.ca/2015/...cumentary.html

[trimmer21]

Did you see the dip sh** Chris Wyatt (Ontario Chief firearms officer) and his comments about the simplification of the ATT? Claiming that the new ATT makes it possible to have your gun with you at any time and claim you were on your way somewhere and we are making Canada's laws like the US. Do you think he really that stupid or just a political type paid by the Ontario gov't? I mean the next thing you see is someone shooting a "scary" gun and then Justin Trudeau's lying about guns at soccer matches (at 55min). At 55 it goes on about the Parliament hill shooter having a lever action Winchester.

Interesting about Mulcair at 58min goes on about the registering all guns and about an assault rifle and duck hunters.

The smuggler trick of using a legal buyer is interesting around 1:02.

Good luck with CSSA and the 3-gun in Canada though.

This doc was done quite a while ago before it finally aired when Mulcair and Trudeau initially shot their mouths off and then had to backtrack in one h**l of a hurry. OPP Supt. Wyatt is merely parroting the Liberal party line as is quite typical in the Ontario public service. We all know where that's coming from,rocket science it ain't. Rest well assured that if the PC's won an election tomorrow,public service would do the most stunning about face in history. That's just how duplicitous they are and the OPP is at the top of the list. I haven't watched the entire doc,but,it appears to me to be quite typical....fairly good,but,typical.