10 Provinces representing. 19 contribution spots left before the first rifle package gift giveaway.
Outdoors enthusiasts are at heart conservationists and lovers of the wilderness and its wildlife. Their desire is simply to enjoy the wilderness and the creatures that reside within it but at the same time make it back home. Every year Canadians are attacked by dangerous animals, some live and are scarred for life while others die a horrific death without ever having had the ability to properly defend their lives. At times their family members and friends have watched in horror yet were helpless to protect or save them. Some of these attacks occur on privately owned property. ‘Wilderness Protection’ is the known term to describe protecting oneself from these potentially deadly encounters. It is the phrase used by the RCMP and within the training and consultant industry in regards to this issue.
Wilderness Protection includes dangerous animal encounter prevention and avoidance strategies. They are both our number one goal but even if you manage to do everything right, a dangerous encounter can still occur. Predators don’t require a reason to attack beyond the fact that they are predators.
Every human life should be offered the best means possible to defend itself if attacked and most especially if this attack occurs where there is no police presence to protect life or emergency services to save life.
Our mandate is to see the right to Open Carry a Handgun for Wilderness Protection on rural and Crown land granted to all Restricted Firearms License holders equally.
Please consider these three variables:
1. Licensed firearms owners are already carrying and using more powerful firearms in these same areas without causing undue harm to wildlife or human alike.
2. Other Canadian citizens are being granted ATC for Wilderness Protection rights for the protection of ‘their’ lives with the same license that all handgun owners currently possess.
3. There are no police available to protect us or emergency medical services to save us in the wilderness which greatly increases our risk of death.
MISSION & OBJECTIVES:
Mission:
To ASSURE that all outdoor enthusiasts across Canada are offered equal ‘opportunity, access and the best tools’ to protect their own and other human life during the occurrence of a dangerous animal encounter.
Objectives:
To ADVOCATE for the right for all Restricted Possession & Acquisition License holders to carry a legally registered holstered handgun on rural and Crown land where a dangerous animal encounter is possible. There is a need and a basic right to protect human life in wilderness situations.
To EDUCATE about prevention and avoidance strategies that pertain to dangerous animal encounters, and the best way to survive an attack via all means possible including a handgun.
To LOBBY politicians and public officials encouraging them to care about and defend our goals as Canadian citizens. Our intrinsic rights in this regard are granted and clarified in the Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms sections 7, 12 & 15.
To TAKE ACTION in whatever legal manner works effectively towards policy or legislative change in order to reclaim our right to carry a legal registered handgun for wilderness protection of human life.
Update as of the third week since launch of this initiative. In this short period of time we have,
1. collaborated together and communicated our desire for and to seek change.
2. consulted and developed a plan with a major Constitutional Law lawyer Gerry Chipeur.
3. worked on a name, mission and objectives for a legal not-for-profit organization.
4. raised almost $14,000 and paid to retain the lawyer who has begun to put a two part plan together to guide us and move us towards a position where we can affect change.
5. commenced the development of a website worth far more than our current resources could provide DUE to the generosity of believers and those we have connections with. That website will be launched soon at
www.wildernessprotection.ca.
6. attracted the interest of some organizations and individuals, some who have offered a desire to be 'in on it' or to support i.e. Wolverine Guns & Tackle Red Deer.
In a nutshell, within a relatively short period of time we will be legally established and positioned to commence an official and extra-Facebook movement that will endeavour to connect and partner with others nationally who desire what we are seeking to accomplish.
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