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Offline waldo

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Re: Canada gunz
« Reply #180 on: June 18, 2022, 11:21:58 am »
Looking for Reasons to Be Hopeful About Gun Legislation --- Canada initiates more real progress and, in this country, something would be better than nothing.



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The first, coming south from Canada, is that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is trying to act on what ought to be a basic concept of a liberal democracy: that nobody who lives in one has any need for a handgun. The law he proposed, less than a week after the Texas school shooting, is part of a package of measures that—on top of other policies he has put in place over the past few years, including, in 2020, an order-in-council banning fifteen hundred types of military-style weapons—would make obtaining a handgun, which is already difficult in Canada, even more difficult, indeed next to impossible. It would effect a “capping” of the sale of handguns in Canada, by stopping their import. “What this means is that it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer, or import handguns anywhere in Canada,” Trudeau said. Since there are already about a million handguns in Canada, and more still crossing the border from, well, us, the abolition will not be complete. But, when the new anti-gun legislation is passed, as it almost certainly will be—Trudeau, with the support of the leftward New Democratic Party, has a working majority in Parliament—it will, as he said, increase “maximum criminal penalties, providing more tools for law enforcement to investigate firearm crimes.” (The new law would also require that long-gun magazines hold no more than five rounds.) “Gun violence is a complex problem, but at the end of the day the math is really quite simple: the fewer the guns in our communities, the safer everyone will be,” the Prime Minister said, quite correctly. No social science could be more robust in its conclusions than that the presence of guns produces violence with guns. The more guns, the more gun murders. Trudeau added, also correctly, that, while most gun owners use their handguns safely and lawfully, “we don’t need assault-style weapons that were designed to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time.”