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Originally Posted by jayswin
God I hate that this turns to a gun debate so quickly, but our worst enemy is having America as a neighbour. Any new gun restrictions are okay in my books as anything helps (I should note this excludes ****ty laws that cost taxpayers lots of money) and I don't really care about shooting guns as a hobby as any reason for gun "freedoms".
But man, we are so screwed in the future by being the US's neighbour.  |
I've always been torn on gun control, because frankly I don't know if I see the need for a lot of fire arms in terms of private ownership.
However, I will state that Canada already has very stringent and strict gun control and ownership laws. The whole mystical ban assault style weapons makes the government look stupid because they don't seem to know what assault style weapons are, and they're already pretty much prohibited.
The bottom line is that governments that talk about gun control don't do enough about one of the more significant gun issues which is illegal guns smuggled in over the border. And as much as we want to blame the Americans, its essential to look at the Chinese connection and other nations as well.
Also in terms of stopping border smuggling and port smuggling where pretty much all of these guns are coming in, the government would have to look hard after groups like the Mohawk warriors and other groups criminal or not who make a ton of money bringing in illegal fire arms.
but instead we bounce the rubble by going after legal gun ownership. Its stupid and lazy.