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 Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 1:12 am Post subject: StatsCan will try and collect crime gun source stats |
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Article.
This seems doomed to fail, because (a) not all guns used in crime are recovered and (b) not all guns can be traced. In reality, it's quite a small percentage.
When Toronto tried to do it, it was a joke, because they started including antiques and so on which pre-dated licencing and they also assumed that anything made in the US was a crime gun from the US, because they couldn't work out if it was legally imported or not. And they also included things like airguns and flare pistols.
| Quote: | Cukier said even without a complete picture of where guns used in crime are coming from, she believes laws like the federal government's ban on assault-style firearms still have to go ahead.
"I've heard a lot of people say, 'There's no point in banning military-assault weapons because we have a problem with gun smuggling,'" she said.
"That's like saying we shouldn't try to treat breast cancer because lung cancer is a big problem. The ban on military-assault weapons is aimed at reducing the risk we will have mass shootings." |
Says the person sitting in a country where cannabis was legalised because they couldn't effectively control illegal import and manufacture...
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