TITLE

To conceal or not to conceal?

AUTHOR(S)

Watt, Robin

PUB. DATE

August 1997

SOURCE

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;08/11/97, Vol. 24 Issue 35, p27

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Editorial

ABSTRACT

Opinion. Discusses carrying weapons in Canada in 1997. Memories of being able to openly carry a gun on public transportation; The paranoid belief by some Canadians that to carry a gun means to use it in public; Incidents of brutality against those carrying, legally, a weapon; What the laws are regarding the carrying of weapons; How the police tends to react to concealed weapons.

ACCESSION #

9709120896

Tags: FIREARMS ownership -- Government policy

 

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