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It's not rocket science

For most of those people touting what a great idea the liberal gun ban is, they are sadly uninformed. These are some quotes from Articles from respected members of the community:

National Post, “Liberal firearm ban unlikely to curb gun violence, RCMP union says, calling for 'evidence based' policy”

In 2019, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair told the Globe and Mail with regard to banning handguns: “It would not, in my opinion, be perhaps the most effective measure in restricting the access that criminals would have to such weapons, because we’d still have a problem with them coming across the border.”

Brian Sauvé, President of the National Police Federation, said: “the NPF takes this issue very seriously because, as police officers, we routinely see first-hand how illegal weapons are directly linked to increased gun violence and, sadly, death.” According to the position statement, 2,242 illegal firearms used in crimes in Canada last year were traced back to the United States. This isn’t just a statistic: all but one of the illegal firearms used in the Nova Scotia attack were smuggled from the U.S.

The NPF is saying what we Conservatives have known all along: targeting legal firearms owners will not keep illegal firearms out the hands of criminals.

They write: “NPF calls for funding that enables law enforcement to properly address crime prevention rather than the ongoing monitoring of unrelated restrictions on licensed and regulated firearms owners.” They also call for “funding to the RCMP Border Integrity Program, to enable dedicated proactive RCMP investigative weapons enforcement activity and the dismantling of gang and organized crime firearms smuggling”.

There have been a myriad of police chiefs and RCMP that have formally stated the Liberal gun ban will have little to no effect on gun violence. How about investing in our border control and implementing stricter penalties for importing guns illegally, perhaps that would have more effect than reaching out for the low hanging fruit, the legal gun holders.

It does not take a rocket scientist to realize the gang members and criminals that are committing gun crimes are using smuggled weapons out of the US and not purchasing these weapons legally, like myself.

James Anderson, RPAL holder



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