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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Rubbish, all guns come from a legal source, if you reduce legal guns you always, over time, reduce illegal ones.
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This is actually an outright lie. If you use Toronto (most likely very applicable to the rest of Canada) as an example, ~70% of guns are smuggled illegally into the country from the US. A good chunk of the remaining 30% comes from theft (I think this is illegal as well) and then a small percentage come from actual, legal owners.
Bill Blair acknowledged this and CBC had a special on it.
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
While it is clearly impossible to reduce the number of gun murders to zero, you surely must recognize that fewer guns in circulation plus fewer avenues to acquire them equals fewer opportunities to use them, right?
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This argument is contingent on criminals suddenly handing in their guns and not trying to source new ones. It would also require a massive joint crackdown on cross-border smuggling by US and Canadian law enforcement, which everyone you ask will support (gun owners included).