It should be clear that criminals do not obey the laws and even the cops are a gun ban will not solve the issue of gun violence.

Testifying before the Commons public safety committee on Tuesday, Toronto Police Deputy Chief Myron Demkiw said that of the crime guns last year that investigators could trace, 86 per cent were smuggled into Canada from the United States — a trend he said has been on the increase since 2019.

“Our problem in Toronto are handguns from the United States,” he said in response to Conservative MP Raquel Dancho’s question about the Trudeau Liberals’ nearly billion-dollar federal buy-back program — one that would allow legal gun owners to turn in so-called military-style assault rifles banned by Ottawa a year-and-a-half ago.

“The issues around investing in what you described is certainly not going to deal with the crime problem we’re facing in Toronto, as it relates to the use of criminal handguns.”

Demkiw told the committee that, aside from addressing key causes of criminality in the community, money and effort should instead be spent on stemming the flow of illegal guns into Canada.

Source: National Post

To be fair though, Liberals already know this, they’re pushing ahead because of the optics, they want further fool the public into thinking they’re doing something about gun violence when in reality it’s all smoke and mirrors. If their confiscation goes ahead, it’ll definitely cost over a billion dollars, money which could be better spent addressing the root causes of gun crime but that’s hard and all the Liberals can do is pander with easy answers…