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Article: Gun control in Alberta: explaining public attitudes concerning legislative change.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Criminology
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Introduction
Stricter gun control laws were a contentious public policy issue in Canada during the 1990's (Gabor 1995; Stenning 1994). Despite fairly widespread public support for stricter laws and regulation as evidenced in various polls (Toronto Sun 1999), a vocal minority has vigorously and publicly opposed such legislation and six provinces and three territories went to court in an unsuccessful attempt to block implementation of the most recent federal law.
By 1977 Canada already had a fairly restrictive gun control law in place. But a number of women's groups and other organizations campaigned for even stricter legislation in response to the murder ...