You want to solve the hand gun shooting.... Logical == gun activity is from drug activity and the monies involved.
Except for legal stuff like marihuana, hang all offenders that sell, transport any illegal drugs (people making a profit/living ). That will stop the trade. and the gun activity. Go in hard with full automatics and rocket launchers (blow up the meth labs and bull dose the carnage over). There will be collateral damage, most likely the drug dealers wife and small kids....
Its simple and fucken barbaric and get the point across. The only way these criminals understand, is if you stomp very hard on them, so they never get up again. Its not in the Liberal persona to fucken kick someone when they are down. Jail time, or life counselling just doesn't work...
As for banning legal gun ownership or restricted weapons, Canadian laws demands that they be locked up with ammo locked up separately. Rifles are for sports hunting of game animals. The ban will be overturned if an conservative government gets elected.
PS It is most likely the cops will get sued over something like that and the government and courts will let the criminals get away with it....
OH, sorry they already are....... FUCK
You are gonna see more shit like that farmer who shot and killed a Aboriginal. The reasons is because of the increase gang activity and profits from drugs and the idolization of drug culture by popular tv show (Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad, Weeds, Narcos etc).... everybody wants to make a quick buck.... drugs are the answear..... didn't you know that....
So I'll agree with 80 Watt in only one respect: punishment of criminals is totally inadequate in Canada. The system rarely gets it right, and more than any political party, it is the courts that are hard-wired for leniency. This system hasn't produced justice - just created two classes of people: those who can play the system like a fiddle, and the rest of us who just have to grit our teeth while the people who harm us are allowed to walk free.
Canada's laws are in line with most of the world, the sane part (almost all the democracies).
Those illegal guns in Canada all came here because of the overflow from the USA, a country so over-armed that it has more guns than people. We already do poorly compared to any western democracy other than that one. We have an illegal weapons problem going on here, which is not going to be solved by making them generally legal, and letting any random untrustworthy dipshit have one just because he wants one. Especially when you're talking about lunatics who just haven't killed anyone yet (but seem obsessed with preparing to do so), or those acting as straw buyers / smugglers for the black market users because their lack of criminal record allows them to get away with it. The system is lazy, buying into these excuses because it wants to turn a blind eye.
I support these bans - I just think we also need to amp up the punishment. A ban is a joke when it has no teeth when it comes to enforcing it.
The answer for anyone who's caught with a firearm they shouldn't have one is, or acts as a conduit of weapons to people who shouldn't have one: prison (hard time & lots of it). The answer for anyone who uses a firearm to commit a crime should be: death.
That's
how they do it in Japan. No excuses there, no accepting anyone's bullshit excuses when it comes to weapons. The government controls who is allowed to have weapons, and what weapons they are allowed to have, and nobody thinks they have some inherent right to challenge that - end of story. Even their criminals can understand that crossing that line would mean their permanent elimination.
That concept will rub some people the wrong way, but most people will be glad to see the grey and black market types forced to either disarm or disappear. It would take serious, ruthless effort (especially at first), but would certainly make the distinctions more clear, and more easy to tear down these criminal and terrorist networks - or at least diminish their ability to strike back at each other or the authorities. Hunting won't be suddenly impossible if there's some test of "need", and limited to certain weapons that are designed clearly for that purpose alone.
However (a BIG however), is that aside from upping the sentence for weapon offense and gun crimes 10-fold, there are still a lot more legal reforms that would have to happen too. Right now I don't think our legal system gets enough of the other things correct to sentence anyone to death. Innocent people still get convicted, while (more often) the guilty go free. You can't have a system which ignores facts and often blames the wrong people, excusing serious lawbreakers while it punishes those who are actually innocent.
I'm not a liberal, a Liberal, or a libertarian when it comes to this stuff. I think this is one area where leniency is a huge mistake. If you have a legal system that ignores common sense & acts naive by design, and which thinks stockpiling weaponry can treated as "innocent" activity by default, then criminals and terrorists will sense that weakness and exploit it. As they do now.
