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Originally Posted by driveway
One of the best ways to make sure that tragedies involving firearms don't happen again is to restrict access to firearms by strengthening gun laws. While you're right that gun laws in America have absolutely no bearing on what happened in Ottawa, it's totally reasonable to ask the question "in light of these events, should weapons restrictions in Canada be increased."
I mean, here was an individual who was under police scrutiny, had a criminal record, and had their passport revoked, yet they were able to acquire a weapon from somewhere. It's totally, totally appropriate to ask if this was a failure of our weapons laws and if they should be strengthened.
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Gun laws only affect those that go through the legal process of obtaining the firearms. If this guy was a criminal or had involvement in criminal activity, he would obtain firearms from criminal sources.
I wish people would get this. I think our gun laws are entirely reasonable and only wish the educational process involving owning and using firearms would be promoted a lot more, but lets not get all 1984 by self imposing a totalitarian state because of one incident. The US has clearly shown that it won't change a damn thing in the end.
Won't edit, but no need for anyone to respond, thanks. Leave it for another time.