Canadian Politics Today

I mean, I'm sure there's some population level relationship between poverty and gun crimes, but mass shooting events seem to be largely perpetrated by people who are neither uneducated nor living in severe poverty. Emphasis on "seem" because I haven't looked into the data.

Nevertheless, these strict gun bans are targeting mass murders. The other types of gun control primarily address domestic violence and suicide (e.g., guns need to be locked in a cabinet with another lock on the triggers and separate from ammo--it's a hassle to get the gun out so you're less likely to pull it out and just shoot someone in the heat of an argument). In any case, gun control works according to the numbers when you compare jurisdictions with each other (those with restrictions against those without) and even within themselves (before and after regulations).

I agree with this, and I also agree with strong gun regulation.

As we saw though, some of the guns the NS mass shooter had were illegally obtained (if i'm not mistaken).  So we have a complex problem that gun regulations do not do enough to resolve.  The problem is it's much harder to catch guns smuggled at the border or shipping ports than it is to ban/restrict guns.