Canada

How many Canadians are killed by gun violence? May 8, 2024 by Wayne Fletcher

In Canada, approximately 250 to 300 people are killed by gun violence each year.

(https://thegunzone.com/how-many-canadians-are-killed-by-gun-violence/)

Motor Vehicle Fatalities on the Rise in Canada – 2024 Data Study Overall Findings:

After three decades of decline, the number of motor vehicle fatalities in Canada went up by 6% in 2022

The number of fatalities is estimated to have reached 2,004 in 2023 and is projected to increase to 2,045 (+2% YoY) by the end of 2024

(https://www.preszlerlaw.com/blog/motor-vehicle-fatalities-on-rise-in-canada/)

Gun violence in Canada is near exclusively committed with illegal firearms brought up from the states. The limits on long guns for people with PALs does nothing to curb the violence.

Also, lots of specific model gun prohibitions are literally based on how scary a gun looks and not anything to do with things like barrel length or caliber. The FN FAL was recently prohibited because you can fix a bayonet, like all those pesky criminals are doing these days...

Don't fall for the conservative framing of the issue. If you read the article, these are all sensible commitments that they are requesting, that essentially enshrine further things that actually responsible gun owners would be taking for granted.

Hopefully Carney is smart enough to tell them to go pound sand

PolySeSouvient's letter, dated last Friday, is copied to others, including Provost, current Public Safety Minister David McGuinty and Rachel Bendayan, a former associate public safety minister.

The group says the new public safety minister should be directed to:

— build an incentive package in the buyback program to encourage early compliance;

— conduct meaningful consultations with stakeholders before draft bills, regulations, directives and public education campaigns are made public;

— immediately launch an investigation into the classification of the SKS, a rifle that has been used in mass and police shootings, to find a solution that protects public safety and respects Indigenous rights to hunt;

— eliminate all loopholes, exemptions and exceptions related to magazine capacity.

We should hastily implement every recommendation.

I support strict gun control laws, and also have my RPAL.

My question is what specific changes do they want, and what specific weakness does it address?

Are there deficiencies in our laws that could be improved, to reduce firearm injuries and deaths? Let's have at 'em!

Are there specifc guns that are too easy to modify to full-auto? Don't need 'em.

But if we're going to start (continue) banning guns only because they look scary, then stop with the performative BS.

The Liberals are never going to come for my guns because I don't own military style guns and cosplay as a Gravy Seal.

Watch the gun-owners quickly do damage control in the comments.