CRIME PREVENTION

Should Prime Minister Carney scrap the former PM's legislation as he did the carbon tax?

Here is a Globe & Mail analysis

"But we know that the vast majority of violent crimes are being committed with illegal firearms; the Toronto Police Service has long reported that the majority of weapons seized by authorities have been smuggled in from the U.S. According to Statistics Canada, in 91 per cent of solved homicides in 2023, the shooter did not have a valid license for the firearm used."

$460,000,000.00 government cost to pay for gun buy-back.

"The government’s plan to buy back thousands of legally owned firearms has been a boondoggle from the moment it was announced. In the wake of a horrific mass killing in Nova Scotia in 2020, the Trudeau government declared it was banning what it called “military-style assault rifles,” which is not an actual firearms designation in Canada. The shooter in that case had not obtained the weapons he used legally, meaning that a ban of this sort would not have prevented his rampage."

"Nevertheless, the issue was so urgent, according to the government, that it couldn’t wait for legislation to be passed in Parliament; instead, the government issued an order-in-council to “remove dangerous firearms designed for military use from our communities.” Five years on, not a single one of those dangerous firearms has been collected from an individual license-holder (though 12,195 guns have been collected from businesses as of April 30). The program managed to spend $67.2-million by 2024, before it collected a single gun, and is now projected to cost $459.8-million in 2025-2026."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-mark-carney-should-add-the-gun-buyback-program-to-his-kill-list/?login=true