ronandannette
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- May 4, 2006
Yes, as far as I know, revisions to our gun laws have always been part of the Liberal platform. Admittedly, I know very little about guns themselves and even less about what case can be made for the legitimate use of various types of guns. I don't know anybody that can inform me first-hand and I haven't studied-up on it but I'm hard-pressed to see why assault weapons are necessary outside law enforcement and the military.It wasn't a knee-jerk reaction.
This horrid event accelerated the decision-making for sure. But the government has had the possibility of an impending ban on the table for quite some time.
Unfortunately, I also don't believe for a minute gun laws of any kind will prevent events like the one in Nova Scotia, which are extremely uncommon. (ETA: you did make a good point about the time factor though in a later post!) The much more common types of gun violence in Canada are domestic scenarios which seem to occur using legal hunting rifles and drug/gang related violence that's perpetrated with illegal hand guns. Getting serious about those incidents would require a complete overhaul of our mental-health, border-control and justice systems with draconian-type sentencing for gun violence. Gang-bangers should be put under the jail to start with; sentences like this are an affront to human decency and certainly not much of a deterrent: https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/custody-ends-for-alberta-teen-who-shot-german-tourist-1.4908326
I have absolutely no problem with the ban and although the issue of imposition without a full debate in parliament is troubling, I can live with it. But I think the actual effect on reducing gun violence overall will be limited.
ETA: I'll reference your 2nd post here again because in this very specific incident, a different type of weapon would may well have delayed the perp long enough to have saved some of those lives. We do now know though that 9 of the victims weren't shot at all; they died in the fires he set and that process had to have been slow and deliberate.
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