Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has been under fire over the details of his gun control proposals. Mayors in the Greater Toronto Area are calling it insufficient. I don’t agree with that. But I would certainly say this: even by the standard of half-baked campaign pledges, the Liberal plan for handguns is breathtakingly stupid.
The Liberal gun control proposal effectively boils down to two major planks, neither of which are really fleshed out in detail yet. The first plank is buying back “military-style assault rifles“ from existing licensed owners. We don’t know exactly what firearms will be covered by the buyback, nor do we have a cost estimate. I think this proposal is silly. Canada does not have the kind of problem seen in the United States, and our existing gun control laws already limit the amount of ammunition that can be held in a rifle magazine. Nor is there any indication that these rifles are major contributors to crime in this country. This is purely a political play, but it is at least a reasonably straightforward one. It is a specific goal, though some details are yet to be defined, and is relatively straight-forward to enact. It won’t make the public safer, but it’s doable.
The handgun proposal, though, is totally bonkers.
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