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How about banning handguns and severe penalties for smuggling/illegally trading them?
They should hit the problem from every angle.
They should hit the problem from every angle.
The demand for murders...
That whole Adam and Eve family was really screwed up. Maybe apples aren't so healthy after all?
A ban on handguns would be about as effective as the war on drugs. Where there is demand, there will always be supply. I do agree that gun smugglers should do hard time too though.
Really? Okay, let's plan our get-a-gun weekend.production of guns, with the need for precision machining isn't something one can do in a basement, and as a result the supply chain starts off with legitimate producers that can be regulated with relative ease.AoD
I am fully in support of gun control, especially hand guns. My point of the above is to demonstrate that any hope of controlling illegal guns in Canada per "the (gun) supply chain's legitimate producers that can be regulated with relative ease." is illfounded as long as my bus tour can cross the border, buy guns legitimately and return to Canada without great fear of being caught.Interesting you should use an example where the lack of firm legislation resulting in a negative policy outcome as a reason against gun control.AoD
Gun control is not ineffective, and I've said as much above. It will stop those guns that are stolen from legal gunowners. It will not stop guns being brought across the border, which IIRC is the greatest source of illegal guns in Toronto and Canada.Odd that you demonstrate your support of gun control by trotting out the old lie of the handgun lobby that gun control is ineffective for whatever manufactured reason.
By all means ban the sale of handguns in Canada. It won't stop much in the illegal trade of guns, but perhaps it might slow it down.
Andrea, I've said here that I support control of legal guns, stricter sentences and better border controls, all as part of a greater gun control measure, what more can I say?I am fully in support of gun control, especially hand guns.