Shootings continue
Vincent J. Curtis
7 Mar 24
AR-15s were made prohibited in Canada by Order-in-Council on May 1st, 2020. Trade in handguns has been restricted since the 1930s, and was made prohibited a year ago. Yet gun crimes in Canada continue. We saw the shooting reported in the March 7th Spectator, and also the story that the Hamilton Police Services were going to make permanent their shooting response unit. Shootings persist: why?
Bill C-21 and, before that, Bill C-71 were supposed to curb gun crime by cracking down on the law-abiding; and it’s going to cost billions of dollars and thousands of manhours to fulfill the provision of Bill C-21 for the confiscation of firearms from otherwise law-abiding gun owners.
The reason gun control legislation has failed to curb gun crime in Canada is that the lawfully owned guns of the law-abiding were never the problem: it was the illegal guns possessed by the criminal class that remains the problem. And resources will be misdirected chasing a chimera of gun “control” instead of being devoted to preventing the entry of illegal guns into Canada and other crime prevention measures.
I will venture to say that the public was fooled all along by the Federal government concerning gun crime. Gun control is a popular issue among those that the government can appeal to; and punishing gun owners both hits a class of people who don’t in general vote Liberal, and makes it look like they’re doing something about crime.
Gun crime will get worse, not better.
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