According to Dr Wendy Cukier, head of the Coalition for Gun Control.the pro-gunners have managed to persuade the Conservatives to renew an amnesty for gun owners who let their licences expire, pay back over $50 million in licensing fees to gun owners and defeat efforts to employ gun marking and tracing techniques.
Harper’s dangerous gang
Special report: banning handguns in Canada
By Paul Terefenko July 17-24, 2014 | VOL 33 NO 46.
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http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=164994
I don't own any firearms. I may hold an unpopular opinion on the matter, but I'm in the camp that believes bans have little to no impact on gun crimes. Gun marking and tracing techniques\technologies in real life do not follow tv's CSI rules. When I was growing up there was shotguns, small and larger caliber rifles on the shelves of Woolworth (yeesh, dating myself here), Canadian Tire in Scarborough at the time still had firearms on the sporting goods section. However gun crime in my area was still fairly rare.
Fast forward some years later, I think only the rural areas CT had firearms for sale. But there was one delinquent in my highschool who converted a non firing starter pistol, into a firing one. Fairly easy to do too if you're even slightly mechanically inclined. Not safe, but doable. I knew some fellow students who carried a knife, or an improvised weapon to school. Some were wannabe thugs in training. Some were bullied, and felt they could not turn to anyone else for help. Or felt the threat of 'snitches who bitches gets stitches'.
At one of the local cafes, while I wasn't there but a few of my friends was, witnessed someone getting shot, another time a machete attack. I didn't feel any safer when the cops raided an Airsoft toy gun store at pacific mall. None of the toy guns in the store were actually used in any crime, but it got shut down just in case someone want to use a real looking toy gun in a robbery. A robbery that hasn't happened yet. I didn't know TPS had precog technology but ok.
Respectfully and honestly, I do not feel safer with less\no firearms being sold at nearby CT, or made more restrictive, or law abiding citizens being made to prove just how more law abiding they are.
I do feel less safe with some people I knew who were going down the wrong path and fast, yet seemed to have a revolving door pass through the criminal system. Whatever the reason was, some of them unfortunately became calcified criminals. Whatever point in time that an ounce of prevention\help\hug a potential thug could've worked, had sadly and tragically passed by.
It's those type of people that I am more fearful of, compared to any guns. Anyway sorry for the side track, speaking of criminal behaviour. Why isn't that picture of the man getting throttled at FordFest getting more media attention? The 4th estate is at a pathetic state.
