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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1459968
Right by a park with kids.
I don't care, if your in a gang, or previously convicted and your caught with a gun, it should be prison for life. You get caught with an unlicenses weapon, we have a nice labor farm where you can do some good. Murder someone in the commission of a crime using a gun, we toss you in the deepest darkest prison possible.
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We already have many laws on the books that make things like this illegal. It is illegal to be in possession of a firearm without a license, it's illegal to conceal one, it's illegal to shoot at other people with one.
What needs to be done is to disrupt the supply that is feeding the gangs, which means stepping up border enforcement and sentencing those who traffic firearms to actual prison time. Gangs also need to be targeted on a social level, early intervention with at-risk youth and measures targeting the root causes of gang affiliation.
The courts are continually striking down mandatory minimum sentences and there are studies showing that they don't actually act as a deterrent, so why bother wasting time and effort there.