It’s been very busy so I haven’t had much time to blog but when I do, it’s about gun control lol.

So the Liberal government is signalling that it’s going to do something to address gun crime by… targeting legal gun owners yet again.  This is just more of the same, to give the appearance that they’re being tough on crime when they’re not addressing the issue at all.  I get that the public would like something to be done and a ban sounds good but do you actually think it’s going to affect what criminals do?  The shooting that started this all, the one on the Danforth was an illegally obtained gun.

The notion of banning certain firearms raises questions such as whether Ottawa would “grandfather” those owners who already have legally registered handguns and allow them to keep their weapons, or whether the government would buy back their weapons.

The source said the $1.5 billion to $2 billion estimate for a handgun buyback was based on a loose estimate of 1 million handguns registered in Canada. The source added there are “probably” twice that number in illegal, unregistered handguns in circulation.

Source: The Star

LOL at that last sentence, so this law will deal with the 33% of legal guns while ignoring the 66% of illegal guns in the hands of criminals, that right there sums up the government’s position nicely.  The government is also frankly lying about guns being domestically sourced, I’m sure it happens but the RCMP which handles the Canadian Firearms Program does not keep that data, it simply doesn’t exist!!!  Don’t like guns fine, isn’t it a problem that the government lies to push an agenda?

Sigh, I’m a card carrying Liberal member and will be complaining to my MP about this.