The federal Liberals are set to launch on another showy but useless endeavour: a public consultation on a possible ban on handguns. Not only is there no evidence to support that claim, there is at least some evidence showing that it is false. There has been an apparent surge in the number of shootings in major Canadian cities, which police believe is linked to gang violence. That’s when the federal Liberal government introduced Bill C-71, which provided a series of relatively minor tweaks to Canadian gun-control laws. Even so, if the government really wanted to ban handguns, it would consult experts, not town halls.

Source: National Post September 21, 2018 22:52 UTC