Not true at all. If this was the case, our gun control measures currently in place wouldn’t be working. They clearly are, as we have much lower gun crime rates than the USA.
I believe ours are in line with other western democracies... so why aren’t they a lot higher, since you contend that the USA makes our controls moot?
We have higher numbers than some and lower than others. Our rates are lower than say Finland and Germany yet our per capita gun ownership is about the same. If you look at per capita gun ownership rates vs gun homicide rates by country, the numbers are over the map. Gun laws are only part of it.
To eliminate the bad guys getting the guns, the good guys will have to lose their guns. Finding the balance is the key... personally, I don’t think we’ve gone far enough yet.
Do you seriously think even one of the gang bangers shooting up the lower mainland is using a legally purchased hand gun, has a PAL or any other kind of permit? Our border is pretty much a sieve for this kind of stuff.
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