I’ve argued gun policy on my blog many times and the latest rumors are that the Liberals want to prohibit certain rifles like the AR15 and other “assault weapons” as well as handguns or with the latter put handguns in some form of government approved central storage.
A re-elected Liberal government will ban some types of “assault-style” rifles, as well as introduce additional restrictions on where firearms can be possessed or stored, according to Bill Blair, who has been the party’s pointman on gun control.
The planned measures will be announced “very, very shortly” as part of the Liberals’ campaign platform, Blair said in an interview with The Fifth Estate.
“I have recommended that there are certain weapons that are currently not prohibited that should be prohibited, which means no one should be allowed to have those weapons in our society,” he said.
“I will tell you that I am confident that a Liberal government will enact effective regulation and legislation … to remove weapons that are, in my opinion, just too dangerous in a civil society.”
Source: CBC
If you read entries on my blog you’ll know my views definitely lead left on most issues and I think my biggest problem is that the government wants to ban an item that has never been used in a crime in Canada but based on how it’s used in other countries. So what does prohibition mean, if the Liberals prohibit guns like they’ve done in the past, I would still be able to keep my AR15s (I have 3), but I wouldn’t be allowed to use them anymore so what’s the point. I don’t see how it’s fair that something I acquired legally can be deemed illegal with a stroke of a pen and this goes back to the argument that Canadians do not have property rights.
Next there are all these proposals to put further restrictions on legal gun owners but I haven’t heard about the Liberal plan to deal with illegal guns which gangs & organized crime use to perpetrate violence. Interesting isn’t it, it’s almost like this is a ploy to make people feel safe rather than deal with the issue of gun violence.
Can gun control be part of the solution, definitely but to think that banning guns from legal gun owners will solve the issue of gun violence is well ridiculous. There are no easy answers to life’s problems and to think this will make the streets safer is foolhardy.
