People are concerned, but should they be? There's a lot of hype about mass shootings, but they are incredibly rare in Canada. More Canadians die from lightning bolts than from mass shootings.
Yes. I think they should be concerned. 22 people being mowed down with some ease should be concerning to us.
$12 billion to get rid of the *legal* guns in Canada. Not the ones that are used in the large majority of homicides.
Yes. Legal guns made illegal. That’s how this would work. The $12B is your number. I have no idea what the real number would be.
Maybe a few, possibly.
I think it might save more than a few. Easy access to “legal” guns means access to illegal guns is easier too. Why can’t you go out and easily get an automatic weapon On the black market in this country? Because they haven’t been available for decades. It’s not impossible, but it’s not easy either. That same thing would happen eventually to handguns and guns with magazines under The Squid Plan.
Do you think that government money is unlimited? Do you think that given the enormous expense you're proposing vs the very minimal number of lives that might be saved, the money could be better spent in other ways?
No and no. I think this would be a very good program and would help more than you think it would.
What you're proposing is extremely expensive, extremely divisive, and there's no rational argument to suggest that it would result in much if any saving of lives.
Expensive? Sure. But we can do it with a 1% GST hike. That’s not so bad.
Divisive? Well... why would it be divisive? This is what I don’t get. The Squid Plan would still allow hunters to hunt and shooters to shoot. What is divisive about that?
I hope to live on an acreage in the hills someday. If I do, I hope that on the day I find a grizzly or cougar in my yard, I hope that I don't have to put my faith in a single-shot rifle.
Total BS argument. I now many, many people who live in grizzly areas who have grizz in their yards who don’t have guns and don’t start blasting at bears when they show up.
Cougars? You’re more likely to be shot by your neighbour thinking you’re a bear than to be attacked by a cougar.
People hike in areas with cougars and bears with nothing but granola bars and a little bell and virtually none of them are eaten.
Nice try.