8 May 20
As we are gradually learning, both in Canada and America, the police don’t have to be truthful with you. Minister of Public Safety Bill Blair used to be Chief of Toronto police, and it is clear from his statements on the firearms ban that being truthful forms no part of his tactics.
Said repeatedly by him and in the Orders-in-Council, the firearms banned have no place in Canada because they are such a threat to public safety. But what are the facts concerning public safety? And do we still believe in “evidence based in policy making,” or not?
In its 29 Sept 2018 edition, the Hamilton Spectator ran a sidebar headlined, “Selected Causes of Death in Canada.” This article reported that in 2016, there were 260,000 total deaths in Canada; 79,084 from cancer, 51,390 from heart disease, 12,524 accident, 6,235 influenza and pneumonia, 3,978 suicide, and 611 homicides. Of these 611 homicides, 220 were by “shootings.” Out of these 220, more than half were committed by handguns, leaving less than a hundred to be committed by long guns. There is no further breakdown specifying how many of this hundred were committed by assault-style firearms, but I’m going to say that the number is approximately zero.
In short, there is no statistical basis for saying that assault-style firearms are such a dire threat to public safety that they have to be banned - and grandfathered in the possession of those too untrustworthy to have them!
Canada, your government is lying to you.
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