Juno News - September 05, 2019


Police chiefs say handgun ban is ＂naïve＂

Topics
inner-city violence
Hosted by
Andrew Lutton
Mentioned
Bill Blair John Tory Adam Palmer
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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

181.97

Word count

854

Sentence count

48

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Andrew Lutton explains why a ban on handguns is not the answer to gun crime and gang violence in Canada, and why the Liberal Party of Canada is the worst solution to gun control in the world. Andrew Lutton is a former police officer who served as the Chief of the Toronto Police Service, and is now the president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. He is also a regular contributor to CBC Radio and the Toronto Sun.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 The people who are on the ground dealing with the consequences of gun crime and gang violence
00:00:07.600 seem to be very clear that a handgun ban is not what Canada needs.
00:00:12.760 Yet the Liberals are not listening.
00:00:14.900 Whatever happened to evidence-based decision-making, right?
00:00:17.620 The evidence offered by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police
00:00:22.100 is that it is naive to suggest that a national handgun ban will do anything about gun crime.
00:00:28.240 This is what the organization said when it declined to take a position on this
00:00:32.880 that is in alignment with the one being put forward by John Tory, by other left-wing politicians,
00:00:38.140 and indeed the one being considered by the Liberal government
00:00:40.840 should they be re-elected after the fall's election.
00:00:44.700 Bill Blair, a former chief of police himself, has said that the types of guns used to kill people
00:00:49.640 are going to be potentially under the hammer in a future Liberal government.
00:00:53.400 He also has talked repeatedly about restricting or even banning handguns as being a possibility.
00:01:00.620 Now he has at other points said that isn't going to be a priority of the government
00:01:03.480 but it's still very much being pushed for, especially by John Tory
00:01:07.400 whose city has seen record numbers of gun crime and gun murders this year.
00:01:13.500 None of that has anything to do with the legal and lawful gun ownership,
00:01:17.840 including of handguns, that exists in Canada.
00:01:20.420 And this is what the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police was saying.
00:01:25.440 Adam Palmer, who's the chief of police in Vancouver and the head of this organization, said as much.
00:01:30.060 He says,
00:01:30.920 In every single case, there are already offenses, they're already breaking the law,
00:01:35.900 and the criminal law in Canada addresses all of those circumstances.
00:01:40.040 The firearms laws in Canada are actually very good right now.
00:01:43.940 They're very strict.
00:01:45.320 Now what he's saying is not radical.
00:01:47.080 These are arguments that I've put forward myself on a number of occasions,
00:01:50.540 but still the Liberal government refuses to accept that legal gun ownership is not the problem.
00:01:56.640 Because if they say we're banning assault rifles, that sounds good. 0.76
00:01:59.840 That sounds like they're saving the neighborhood.
00:02:01.740 It sounds like they're saving lives.
00:02:03.520 In actuality, they're doing nothing about the guns that are causing the problems,
00:02:06.940 which are not guns that are purchased and owned under the legal infrastructure in Canada.
00:02:11.760 And again, what Chief Palmer said is very accurate.
00:02:15.320 That whenever these incidents happen, there are already offenses for it.
00:02:19.820 The issue is not a lack of a charge.
00:02:22.340 The issue is not the police don't have anything to charge people with.
00:02:26.040 The issue is that the existing laws are not being followed by segments of the population
00:02:30.800 that are predisposed to commit crimes.
00:02:34.340 Nine times out of ten, perhaps even more, we're talking about gangs.
00:02:37.960 We're talking about inner-city violence, not people that want to respect the law
00:02:42.120 and adhere to the narrow, already confines of the gun control regime in Canada.
00:02:48.920 Now, this isn't to say we should throw our hands up in the air and give up,
00:02:52.340 but the issues are going to be a lot more about enforcement and activity
00:02:56.520 where the crimes are taking place, rather than a wholesale national confiscation of guns,
00:03:01.980 or even specific types of guns, like handguns, or what Bill Blair terms assault rifles,
00:03:07.280 but are actually just semi-automatic rifles used for sport shooting, like the AR-15,
00:03:12.180 which I own and have talked about in the past.
00:03:15.300 The myths and misconceptions deployed by this government are just plain wrong,
00:03:20.140 but they're also inconsistent with what the experts are saying.
00:03:23.560 And Bill Blair would know that had he not crossed to the dark side of politics,
00:03:27.100 had he actually been in policing,
00:03:29.220 which is why we never heard a push from him for anything like this
00:03:32.440 when he was a Toronto police chief,
00:03:34.500 because he would know that the problem is not what the law allows.
00:03:39.700 The problem is what people are doing in spite of the law.
00:03:43.140 We still do not have in Canada tracking of crime guns.
00:03:47.340 We do not have a national registry of where the guns originated that are used in crimes.
00:03:54.220 We know massive numbers are coming across the border.
00:03:57.240 However, it's unsurprising when we share the longest unprotected border in the world
00:04:01.100 with a country that has among the highest rate of gun ownership in the world.
00:04:05.340 But that's not our problem.
00:04:06.900 We still do a very good job at restricting and regulating firearms in Canada.
00:04:11.860 Listen to the experts, Prime Minister.
00:04:15.080 This is why True North is doing this.
00:04:16.880 The mainstream media is not standing up for gun ownership.
00:04:19.460 The Liberal government certainly isn't.
00:04:21.280 I get it.
00:04:22.000 I'm a gun owner.
00:04:22.720 This is why we're talking about these stories that the mainstream media isn't
00:04:26.360 through the election campaign.
00:04:27.800 But we can't do this alone.
00:04:29.460 We've launched an election coverage fund
00:04:31.940 to keep the lights on through this important period in Canada.
00:04:35.200 If you can chip in and support us with a few dollars or a few hundred dollars, please do.
00:04:40.040 For True North, I'm Andrew Lutton.