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Subject: Re: [OT] Trudeau bans even more guns
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 12:40:10 -0500
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On 2024-12-07 4:59 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 17:42:16 -0500, Rhino
> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> 
>> Prime Minister Trudeau has banned an additional 300 models of guns, over
>> and above the 1500 that he banned four years ago. The only people
>> impacted by this will be legal gun owners, who have represented 3% of
>> all gun criminals for the past THIRTY years: the remaining gun crimes
>> were performed by people who obtained their guns illegally via people
>> smuggling them over the border.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsoIwQP3b9k [5 minutes]
>>
>> Trudeau is apparently shoring up support from his "progressive" base in
>> Toronto and Montreal.
> 
> Trudeau has ALWAYS taken the attitude that 'please Toronto and
> Montreal and to hell with everybody else' - this is hardly news. The
> whole careers of Preston Manning and Stephen Harper were based on
> that. And when was there an Alberta premier of any party who DIDN'T
> engage in Ottawa-bashing?

The thing that was new to me was the statistic that for the last 30 
years, the guns involved in crimes were only legally owned guns in 3% of 
the cases. I had no idea the number was so small or that the number was 
so consistent.

Trudeau going after legal gun owners yet again is of only the slightest 
benefit to reducing gun crime. At most, it would reduce gun crime by 
legal gun owners to zero when it's already minimal while doing NOTHING 
whatever to discourage the kind of gang-related shootings that are now 
routine in this country. And I don't just mean in Toronto or Montreal. 
The shooting is getting routine even in the lesser cities in or beyond 
the GTA. I expect it's the same in BC.

-- 
Rhino