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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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.
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That's exactly it. I like guns, I've made that clear here over the years, I own several, but I'm also pro gun control and am glad we're not like the US in that regard.
However banning weapons, or a class of weapon, for legal private ownership for no reason other than to do it is dumb, lazy, and punishes the wrong people. It isn't the guys like me going out, getting licensed, buying guns legally, that are causing the issues. It's the people that get them illegally. Yet instead, the Government is going to punish people like myself because someone unlicensed got illegal firearms. I don't get it. It's a lazy expensive way of making anti-gun people feel good about themselves without actually accomplishing anything.