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Gary Mauser

Gary Mauser, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University.

Most Recent Articles by Gary Mauser:


Is American gun culture racist and paranoid?

Canada's leading newspapers, including The Globe and Mail and The National Post, recently gave sympathetic reviews to a book by A.J. Somerset that portrayed American gun culture as racist and paranoid. In his book, Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun, Somerset's approach to American gun culture is to search for what he calls "the Wellspring of Crazy." As he says, "This is the gun culture I am after in this book: the weird stuff."
- Monday, February 1, 2016

Number of violent crimes involving guns exaggerated by an over-inclusive definition of gun crime

By using an over-inclusive definition, Statistics Canada has exaggerated the number of violent crimes that involve guns. The result is that gun violence appears to be four times more frequent than it really is. In 2013 (the most recent year statistics are available) Statistics Canada reports that there were 5,027 "firearms-related" incidents out of 263,054 violent crimes (i.e., 2% of violent crimes). Clearly, gun violence isn't prevalent.
- Monday, February 23, 2015

Black Americans, a little-known tradition of arms

"I am," she answered crisply, "a Second Amendment absolutist." Growing up in Birmingham, Ala., in the early 1960s, when racial tensions rose, there were, she said, occasions when the black community had to exercise its right to bear arms in self-defense, becoming, if you will, a well-regulated militia. -- Dr. Condolezza Rice, August 6, 2000.
- Sunday, May 11, 2014

Maintaining Information on Law-abiding Citizens on CPIC Serves No Legitimate Purpose

In order to improve public safety, Canadian Firearms Registry Online (CFRO) information should be withdrawn from routine perusal on the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC). As is done with other information on law-abiding citizens, information on firearm-licensees should be restricted to investigational purposes that require a warrant.
- Tuesday, February 25, 2014

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