Posted on 10/22/2022 4:14:57 PM PDT by real saxophonist
Canada banning handguns is the canary in the coal mine for America, so pay attention.
For years I have argued that there is no such thing as common sense gun measures and that every time you hear that phrase from a politician, it means they want to ban all guns.
Take, for instance, Joe Biden.
Joe Biden recently said he's going to get a so-called "Assault Weapon Ban" Passed, and so many people are like, "Oh, well, that's not too bad; who needs AR15s anyway? All you need is a handgun anyway".
Fools, it's not just going to stop with AR15s; there's always going to be more, and CANADA proved it.
First, they started with the so-called Assault Weapons in 2020.
Then two years later, they are now banning handguns.
In a statement on the ban/freeze on handguns, Justin Trudeau noted, among other things:
"Fewer guns mean safer communities. That's why the Government of Canada is implementing some of the strongest gun control measures in a generation. Handguns are the weapon of choice in most firearm-related crimes, which is why limiting the number of handguns is a critical part of our plan to protect Canadians from gun violence."
I'm sure there are people now saying, "Oh, well, that's Canada, that could never happen here."
Are you coherent?
We just had an assault weapon ban in America that lasted from 1994 -2004. That was only 18 years ago, and the only reason we don't still have one now is that the republicans got lucky and were able to put a sunset clause in the bill that would require the law to expire after ten years if they could show the ban didn't work.
Do you think the Democratic politicians will make the same mistake again in their new assault weapon bill that they're trying to pass?
There is no sunset provision in the new assault weapon bill; they even made it more restrictive than the last one.
2nd amendment ping. Never give up your weapons, folks.
I am sure Canadien criminals are shaking in their boots.
Looking at the kimber micro. got a tomcat tactical for pocket.
Friggen Canada, eh!
Damn Communists are entrenched on our northern border! I never figured a dictator would be a half French limp wristed little fag son of Fidel Castro, but here we are.
Sounds like Trudeau needs to meet the business end of one.
>>”When all handguns are outlawed, only outlaws will have handguns”.<<
Yep, the feral gubbamint will have their way with us all.
Why Gun Violence Is Surging In Toronto
January 17, 2020 9:20 AM ET, DAVID MCGUFFIN
Crowds scatter after reports of shots fired in Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto in June. By the end of 2019, more than 760 people had been shot in the city, 44 of whom were killed.
Gun violence is a growing problem in Canada’s biggest city — and last year was Toronto’s worst, with more shootings than any year to date, according to Toronto police statistics.
The highest-profile incident came in June, when shots rang out as more than a million fans gathered in Nathan Phillips Square to celebrate the Toronto Raptors’ first NBA championship. Four people were injured in the shooting, and a panicked stampede of fans ensued.
That was followed by 14 separate incidents of gun violence over one weekend in August.
In Canada, Gun Violence Is A Growing Problem For Toronto
By the end of 2019, more than 760 people had been shot in the city, 44 of whom were killed, according to Toronto Police. That’s triple the number of shooting victims in the city in 2014.
Canada has tighter gun laws than in the U.S. and suffers much less gun crime, so for many citizens, the sharp rise in gun violence in Toronto is shocking. City officials and gun control advocates are trying to figure out why the surge is happening — and what they can do to stop it.
1st Supreme Court Gun-Rights Battle In 10 Years May Transform Legal Landscape
Unlike in the U.S., there is no right to bear arms in the Canadian constitution, meaning it is easier for the government to legislate gun control — and there are far tighter restrictions on gun sales. Standard hunting rifles can be fairly easily purchased with a license. But people who want to buy weapons such as handguns and semi-automatic rifles must undergo deep background checks and abide by detailed restrictions on how and where to use those types of firearms.
The Conservative government in power from 2006 to 2015 worked to ease rules on gun owners, principally by dismantling in 2012 a national gun registry, a mandatory list that gun owners had to sign onto with each purchase. This was followed by a spike in firearm imports from the U.S., according to the latest Canadian Commission on Firearms report. Nearly 2 million firearms were imported for sale. And since 2013, the number of restricted weapons, like semi-automatic rifles and handguns, purchased in Canada has grown by 50% to more than a million total.
The weakening of national gun control legislation has had an impact on gun crime in Toronto, says Wendy Cukier, head of the Toronto-based Coalition for Gun Control, one of Canada’s leading gun control advocacy organizations. “As we progressively strengthened gun control in Canada,” she says, “we saw the rates of gun violence, particularly suicide, violence against women and so on, fall. And for the last few years, we’ve seen an uptick.”
According to Canada’s government statistics agency, gun violence overall rose by more than 40% in Canada between 2013 and 2017, with much of that increase driven by incidents in Toronto.
Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders says that the city’s recent gun violence has been connected to gang activity.
In a press conference in August, he said the Raptors incident and the August shootings “by and large have street gang connotations to them,” pointing to the gang membership of the victims and those arrested. There is a thriving gang culture in Toronto centered on the illegal drug trade, largely in the city’s poorer outer suburbs.
Saunders, and others including the Toronto Board of Health, believe the growth in gang activity is partly rooted in the city’s growing gap between rich and poor. As Canada’s finance hub, the city’s economy is booming. The average price of a detached home doubled to almost $1 million in the past decade, making it one of North America’s most expensive cities, according to Toronto real estate data.
That’s led to rising “inequality in terms of opportunities, in terms of access to fairness and justice,” Cukier says. “And we’re seeing the divisions in Toronto increasing in recent years.”
Saunders has noted there will be challenges in addressing those divisions. “I’ve said in the past if the expectations are that we are going to arrest ourselves out of this, we simply are not,” he said in August. “There are social issues that are related to this. People are not born to be street gang members. It takes a multipronged approach to get this right.”
Gun control advocates in Toronto, including Mayor John Tory, have been calling for a national handgun ban since a 2018 mass shooting in the city’s upscale Danforth neighborhood, which left three people dead and 13 injured. The Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has declined to propose such a ban, wary of alienating more conservative rural and western Canadian voters, who are more likely to own firearms.
But the Trudeau government has promised to introduce legislation within the next year for a national ban on military-style assault rifles, complete with a program to buy back those firearms from willing gun owners. And with the combined support in Parliament of the governing Liberals and the left-leaning New Democratic Party, the assault weapons ban legislation likely has the votes needed to pass into law.
NPR: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/794510796/why-gun-violence-is-surging-in-toronto
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