When I did my IRD training, one of rhe stats preaented was that 47% of ASHE attacks ended with the death of the attacker shortly after the arrival of armed first responders, often by their own hand.
Bad idea, for the main reasons that Eaglelord17 articulated. We came close to this with the idea of municipal handgun bans a few years ago.
QC already has it's own specific gun laws, notably their long gun registry and Anastasia's Law (Loi 9) for handguns. Nit a fan of the registry, but...
"Dateline: October 31, 2026
As Minister of Public Safety I am pleased to announce that the Liberal Government of Mark Carney has removed XXXXX dangerous assault style firearms from our communities though our voluntary buy-back program. The program is now concluded and is within budget, a...
The difference here is that the Chretien piece was done by a rival political party (which, in my view, makes it worse) but the Almonte stunt was done by private citizens.
I do.
Gary is way out of his depth and is desperately trying to stay on message that "guns are bad!". Right up to last week when in committee he claimed, repeatedly, that an inanimate object, a hammer, was partly to blame for the death of a young woman who was bludgeoned with it.
Agreed, but this ain't it. Make no mistake, I am not defending the PS minister, even if he is my boss. He needs to go, along with the Trudeau era gun policies. But his replacement will defintely be worse for us.
Hard to claim the moral high ground when you're acting like a scumbag.
A pretty classless protest against the PS minister today at the Almonte Gun Show. No matter how much you dislike the guy, he's trying to do the job he's paid to do. That's he's failing miserably is another issue. But this is not on, particularly at a public event where children may be present.
PMMC is being as un-Trudeau as he can in many ways while holding onto to some still unpopular key LPC policies to keep his support high with the party faithful. I don't think he'll risk an election call any time soon.
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