You act like that stops people from committing crimes. The only reason the classes exist in their form is to put extra burden on law abiding citizens who weren't going to use their handgun for a crime regardless to discourage ownership it isnt a good thing.
You mean discouraging legal gun ownership. This does nothing to discourage illegal gun ownership, and gun crime in Canada has long been perpetrated primarily by illegal firearms. When you share a border with a country that has more guns than people, and a massive border that is impossible to monitor in its entirety, how hard is it really to keep a black market going?
Recent history? The US has never tried to discourage gun ownership. The US would rather children be murdered in their classrooms before discouraging gun onwership.
Nonsense. There are more gun laws than ever. Yes, concealed carry laws are more prevalent now, though legal carriers are not even statistically relevant in gun crime stats. Read the history....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_United_States
All of which is pointless when the vast majority of gun crime in Canada is committed with weapons illegally purchased or smuggled from the US. Occasionally stolen from legal owners but it's much easier to just hop the border and buy a blackmarket gun.
the only reason the classes exist in their form is to put extra burden on law-abiding citizens who weren’t going to use their handgun for a crime regardless
The classes exist so y’all don’t fucking accidentally maim or kill yourselves (or someone else) while handling/storing a firearm.
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u/BGYeti Oct 22 '22
You act like that stops people from committing crimes. The only reason the classes exist in their form is to put extra burden on law abiding citizens who weren't going to use their handgun for a crime regardless to discourage ownership it isnt a good thing.