I guess when it comes to issues like deadly weapons access to such needs to be more scrutinized than simply allowing every individual to own whatever they want.
We have a licensing process that does exactly that.
Perhaps if you lived on or near the Danforth you might just be thinking we need to do something.
And this is just an appeal to sheer emotionalism.
Wind the clock back a year to when Abdulahi Sharif took a rental truck and tried to run down people on Jasper Avenue in Edmonton. If I'd told you "AAAHHHH WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE ISLAMS!!!" you'd probably say something like "look, I understand that this is upsetting, but we have to think about this rationally," right?
And if I responded "maybe you don't care because you don't live there, but I used to walk up and down Jasper Avenue all the time!!!" you'd probably point out that like having a personal connection to the area of the attack doesn't actually make my opinion more valuable, right?
The fact is that I *don't* live near Danforth. I live thousands of kilometers away. And confiscating my
**** does literally nothing to make Toronto residents safer.
-k