Evidenced-based gun control

Vincent J. Curtis

2 Aug 22

When I don’t find it alarming, I find it laughable when the expression “evidence-based” is used to justify something, as Margaret Shkimba did on diversity and anti-racism programs in schools.  The “evidence” often amounts to some collection of tendentious studies by ideologues employing fun with figures to support a preferred policy outcome.

“Evidence-based” was used to justify all sorts of nonsense during the pandemic, what with lockdowns, mask mandates, and mandatory vaccinations.  School kids needing to be taught anti-racism based on evidence?  How did these young innocents learn to be racist in the first place?  That question goes unanswered.

But let’s train the “evidence-based” lens on the Trudeau government’s fetish on guns.  Not a single crime has been committed by a law-abiding owner with a so-called “assault rifle” in Canada – ever.  Marc Lepine and Gabriel Wortman were not law-abiding gun owners.  They had no legal right to possess the guns they used in the only two famous shootings involving “assault rifles” in Canadian history.  Nevertheless, the Trudeau government is proposing to spend a cool billion or so, not to fight gun-smuggling or gangs, but to  forcibly “buy back” firearms that scare some impressionable Torontonians, latte-sipping Ottawans, and quiche-eating Quebeckers (of which there are millions).  This program is guaranteed to create more “gun crime” than it could possibly prevent.  There is no evidence whatsoever that law-abiding gun owners are dangerous criminals or mad-men simply awaiting their opportunity.  The effect of this legalized theft of private property lawfully obtained is to leave the law-abiding defenseless in the face of gun-toting criminals and a government that can seize your bank account.

Let’s apply “evidence-based” to gun control!

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