This whole issue is such a non-issue (when it comes to legally owned/posessed) handguns and firearms overall.
The stats are clear. A PAL/RPAL holder is 3-4 times safer and less likely to commit any crime than the average everyday Canadian. Taking away their sporting equipment is literally a solution in search of a problem.
If you want to solve the problem of daily shootings in the GTA or GVA, then work on gang supression, social programs to divert at-risk youth, tackle the opiod/addiction crisis, and fix our revolving door legal system for repeat offenders, especially ones with firearms prohibition orders (which is a massive joke to begin with).
Talk to police officers, they'll tell you what needs to be fixed. Oh hell, the police chiefs and police association reps are giving testimony on bill C-21 in committee and are all saying the same thing (i.e. this won't fix anything, and you're going after the wrong people). BUT, as usual, this government doesn't care if they fix the issue, as long as they plant a political landmine at their opponents feet.
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