Originally posted by: ZzZGuy
Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Originally posted by: desy
Imagine a street thug in TO, is he going to have that HG in the trunk of his car if he's facing a few yrs in jail just merely being in possesion of it?
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Yeah that keeps them from killing people too.
We just so happen to have a much lower gun related crime rate in Canada (% wise) compared to the USA, we also have a problem with illegal handguns coming from the USA. Perhaps if you cracked down on hand guns (most common used in crimes) we'd have a even lower gun related crime rate. Perhaps we should secure our USA border like many want to do with the Mexican border, it'll save lives by stopping smuggling of guns with the added bonus of stopping drugs from coming in (and going out).
I'm also against the gun registry, it's just silly to have to register your M1 Grand or a hunting rifle. I'd rather target guns most often used in crimes, make it damn hard for a crook or someone selling to a crook to get a hold of said guns. Criminals will not register their weapons, a better approach is stiff penalties for those illegally possessing controlled fire arms and hard to acquire controlled guns with regulations to keep them from getting into the hands of crooks.
You can argue all you want about your right to protect yourself, but the shooter in the Virginia Tech gun shooting was mentally ill, it was documented if anyone cared to check and yet every gun he used to kill those people was legally bought. I will not take advice from a broken system. There is also the argument "everyone has a gun (especially crooks) so I should have one too", but that is because of poor gun control letting large quantities of guns often used in crimes to go unaccounted for. Right now it might be a valid argument in the USA but you've lost all control over the situation, it's not a issue for those who have not.
Then there's the "what if I get mugged?". Well, if he has a gun you're screwed, if he has a knife at least you can use self defense training. But what if you had a gun and he had a kinfe? Well if you follow the example of the USA with "everyone should be allowed to own a gun, nothing should get in the way of that", then that mugger probably won't be using a knife and you're back to having a gun pointed at your head.
Oh and the "but we need them to protect ourselves form the government", what the hell are you going to do against the most powerful military in the world, who at all times has 50% of it's armed forces at home (IIRC), who can destroy most all foreign militaries with not even the full other 50% with minimal losses. Tell me what are you going to do against a squad of well trained and well equipped soldiers with air and artillery support? Your only hope is the factions of the military to mutiny and come to your aid.