Juno News - July 31, 2018


Handgun ban wouldn’t have stopped Danforth shooter


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3 minutes

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Word Count

583

Sentence Count

26

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1


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The idea of a nationwide ban on handguns in Canada is gaining ground in the wake of the recent shooting of an 18-year-old on Danforth Ave. in Toronto. Andrew Lutton explains why a gun ban in Canada would be a bad idea, and why common sense is the best solution.

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00:00:00.720 It started with a motion, a symbolic motion passed by Toronto City Council
00:00:04.800 calling on the federal and provincial governments to ban the sale of handguns
00:00:08.400 and handgun ammunition. Now the idea of a nationwide handgun ban in Canada
00:00:13.200 is gaining steam. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodill when asked last week
00:00:17.280 wouldn't say whether it was on the docket for the government but did say
00:00:20.320 that they would entertain all proposals that come forward.
00:00:23.760 More recently Justin Trudeau speaking at the memorial service for 18-year-old
00:00:28.080 Rhys Fallon, one of the people gunned down on Danforth Ave a week and a bit ago,
00:00:33.280 said that he would not rule out anything, certainly would not rule out a handgun ban.
00:00:38.160 He did say that he would look to other jurisdictions to see how they manage
00:00:42.480 to combat firearm related crime. Now this gets me a little bit nervous because we
00:00:48.880 know that Justin Trudeau's government has an anti-gun agenda. We've seen this
00:00:52.640 through their legislative track record, we've also seen it through their public
00:00:56.320 statements and their opposition to very common sense firearms measures
00:00:59.840 that were put forward by the previous Conservative government.
00:01:02.960 And any time they talk about looking to other countries we should be very
00:01:06.960 concerned that they're going to cite Australia.
00:01:10.000 Australia is a country that pro-gun control advocates, that anti-gun people
00:01:14.400 love to hold up as an example because former Prime Minister John Howard,
00:01:18.240 who was actually Conservative, initiated a nationwide gun ban in Australia.
00:01:24.320 Gun control advocates love to say that this was effective, but if you look at the actual
00:01:28.560 numbers it wasn't. In fact there was a report in Australia's The Age that said as much.
00:01:33.440 They looked at year-over-year crime, gun-related offences and gun-related violent crime,
00:01:38.640 and found that after the gun ban Australians were armed more than they ever had been when guns were
00:01:45.920 legal and available in Australia. So it's nothing to do with Australia being an isolated example because
00:01:52.400 it's on an island. It just simply didn't work. Illegal firearms flooded across into the country more than
00:01:59.520 legal firearms ever had. And we know that the people that managed to get their hands on firearms
00:02:04.080 illegally offer a lot more of a problematic ownership than those who get their guns legally.
00:02:10.160 If Justin Trudeau wants to take a look at gun ownership around the world, look at nations like Israel, 0.98
00:02:15.920 where people use firearms very regularly for self-defense without violent crime being an issue.
00:02:21.680 Or Switzerland, where there are rifles in pretty much every household and gun crime that is violent
00:02:29.360 is virtually non-existent. These are the case studies that we should be actually looking at here,
00:02:35.200 but instead they're going to look at cases where they can pick and choose stats that suggest that guns
00:02:40.160 are the problem and not the violent criminals and gangs and crime syndicates that get their hands on
00:02:46.560 illegal guns. Case in point, this week the world is going crazy over the fact that plans for 3D firearms,
00:02:53.520 3D printed firearms, are now available. There's no way to gun control your way out of gun ownership.
00:02:59.840 It's going to happen. What a government needs to do is set up an infrastructure and a framework
00:03:04.000 that doesn't penalize the legal gun owners. That's where the solution in Canada lies.
00:03:08.640 We're doing a lot of the work now, but common sense is the answer, not what the Liberals are passing off.
00:03:13.520 For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.