I’m so sick and tired of politicians peddling quick and easy answers to societal problems.  I know I harp on this a lot but really there is no easy answer to Toronto’s gun or violence problems and I especially hate John Tory for being a pompous ass for pushing a gun ban and I’ll mention reasons why it’s silly shortly but this quite really bothered me.

City council last year, in the wake of the Danforth attack that killed two people and injured 13 others, asked the Justin Trudeau Liberal government to ban the sale of handguns in Toronto.

Source: The Star

As I’ve discussed many times, the Danforth loser (I call all mass shooters losers because it’s what they are) was using an illegally acquired firearm, his brother was arrested for drug & gun smuggling so spare me on how a ban would have prevented the attack.  Also the gun used was in the prohibited class so anyone who got their gun license after 1996 (like me) can’t even acquire one if we wanted. Gun bans simply don’t work because they only target legal gun owners, it’s already illegal to point a gun at someone or to kill but politicians think that a gun ban would cause criminals to think twice?  Again it’s a measure to sound good that does nothing in real terms, I really wish those who create laws & regulations would go through and educate themselves on the actual process.

Does one really think that if the Danforth loser didn’t have a gun that he’d simply stay home?  Those who are committed to acts of violence will find ways, just as the other loser used a van to kill a bunch of people last year.

Now how do you address gun violence (or violence in general)?  First we need to identify the root causes of gun violence, which the majority lead to gang fights so what causes people to join gangs?  Lack of opportunity, after school programs & even systemic racism…  If you’re poor and have a family to feed, you will do whatever it takes to feed that family, even if the means are illegal.  What Doug Ford is doing by cutting funding to education will only exacerbate the problem but hey he has an ideology to stick to as well.

The recently passed Bill C71 cracks down on legal gun owners, requires me to have extra paperwork to bring my guns to the range, classifies certain weapons as prohibited even though they’ve been sold as non restricted for decades and carves out new prohibited classes…  This was done in the name of public safety but I fail to see anything that cracks down on those who use their guns for illegal mans.

Bill C75 on the other hand lessens the time someone spends behind bars for someone who’s in organized crime.  So on one hand the Liberal government cracks down on people like me and give actual criminals an easier time, really it’s that insane.

There are no easy answers to gun problems and as with everything else in life, be wary of those who peddle them as a way to win your support because they’re deceiving you.

I voted for Trudeau last time out but this and with their bungles during their term will force me to vote for someone else in Oct.  Ideologically the majority of my views are closest to what’s called a classic liberalism but that’s not the way the Liberal Party of Canada governs and I wish Trudeau and the rest of the political “leaders” would actually lead instead of peddling stupid answers.