There have been two "mass shootings" in Canada in the past two months: One in Toronto that killed two people, and another earlier today that killed four, including two police.
The Toronto shooting, committed by mentally ill Pakistani with an illegal handgun obtained through "gang-related activity" from a known ISIS sympathizer, has led to calls for a UK-style ban on handguns. Trudeau appeared relatively reluctant to commit to something quite so drastic, but has stated it is definitely under real consideration. That reluctance might be about to change, though, since at 7:00 a.m. local time today there was a shooting incident in New Brunswick. Witness reports suggest that the police were confronting the shooter before it began. The suspect is in custody
There is already a gun control bill (C-71) awaiting its third reading in the House of Commons (the last before it is sent to the Senate), and there are some suggesting it may undergo substantial changes. In its current form the bill de facto re-establishes the recently-abolished long gun registry by requiring all transfers, including private ones, to be logged and reported (note that this also implies the RCMP has a registry of which gun owners are in contact which others, since both license numbers must be reported), as well as handing complete control of gun classification to the RCMP, with no oversight or veto ability by any elected body. It also changes some 15,000 unrestricted-status rifles to prohibited status, with the owners facing 10 years in jail unless they comply with the different requirements for owning such rifles; the RCMP has no plans to actually inform these owners of the change. The rifle that will be prohibited, the CZ-858, already has had one variant prohibited, which differs from the (soon to be former) unrestricted version only in that the stock was engraved with the phrase "Molon Labe".
HOW CAN THESE PEOPLE BE THIS FUCKING DELUSIONAL JESUS CHRIST THIS GOES AGAINST ALL LOGIC AND BASIC BRAIN FUNCTION
Robert Turner
They argue that since the S&W the guy used was stolen from a legal civilian owner there should be no legal civilian owners, and only the police should have handguns. In completely unrelated news, police in Saskatchewan have put out a request to the public to be on the lookout for a S&W and ammunition that was stolen from an unlocked patrol car a few days ago.
Gabriel Thomas
Here's a couple pics that I took this morning while driving by.
Until pro-gun lobby get off their asses and propose a sensible policing legislation ON MANUFACTURING the left will continue the salami tactic until you need a license to own kitchen knives (don't laugh that's the case in asian countries).
All gun barrels are to be serial stamped (they already are) and fire tested with live ammo (they already are), said ammo forensic profile goes into the gun file in a police database. Buyer of gun barrel have to register it (simply with a valid ID on purchase, which is already largely done if only to check you're not a minor). And you do so retroactively for existing legally owned firearms little by little, in gunshops and what not.
FFS all you need a half decent digital camera and a barrel filled with water and a bit of collective will. And that's it. You're done.
You have a traceable register similar to a fucking VIN number that allows you to match bullits from a crime scene to any legally owned weapon. And the left cannot use the policing argument because it will now clearly happen that most guns used to commit crimes are source from illegal activities and not legal ones, and should now only be told to go fuck itself.
Hell if it's safety from gun grabbers that concerns you, you just encrypt the naming system making only possible to submit a request via submitting a projectile profile (with a case number) from the LEO ends and they only get a name if there is a match to the database. Exactly like they do for other shit (medical files notably).
This is what the fucking NRA and gun owners association everywhere should be lobbying. But they won't.
Alexander Russell
Fixed. Its tug war, if you don't tow your line other side would be wining non stop. "Just to stay in place you need to run with all might".
And BTW your proposed measures: 1. Won't stop gungrabbers from demanding more until kitchen knives are licensed. 2. These databases don't work. Matching bullet to barrel is probabilistic vudu science already, it may work if you have gun and a bullet and you try to decide was it fired from this gun? (it still may not work) Matching bullet to the database to the millions of the guns is a fantasy. Also some sandpaper applied to the barrel destroy matching to the level no fair test can determine it (and for non fair test you don't need any matching just say bullet belongs to the gun of your choice case solved lol).
So go fuck yourself.
Robert Young
Why can't we require people to train themselves with a handgun like the British did with Bows,have national carry,and promote the idea of vigilante killing in underoo town?
Fuck no, how insane do you have to be to trust mob "justice"? Have you seen how people react to all the bullshit rape accusations? At least courts pretend to be impartial and based on evidence; vigilantism is unabashed pure emotion. Promote defense, and encourage citizen's arrests at the scene. Not irrational mobs where nobody bothers proving who actually committed the crime or whether a crime even occurred.
Landon Roberts
You've watched too much CSI. Any sort of "barrel fingerprint" will be useless aftee a handful of shots have passed through the barrel. Plus, it's impossible to use on expanded/fragmented bullets unlike what you saw in your favorite Batman movie.
