Legal handguns can also be used to commit crimes — like the Quebec Mosque massacre. Can the Liberals not see the glaring disaster resulting from a patchwork of state and local gun laws south of the border? This is a significant and positive development for gun control in Canada, as it makes a ban on assault weapons a real possibility in the near future. A complete overhaul of the classification system is necessary to ban assault weapons for good, and that definitely requires legislation — which means it’s an appropriate election promise (at least this late in the current mandate). Given the current (2015) Liberal platform that already pledges to “take action to get … assault weapons off our streets,” Canadians would be convinced that, this time around, the promise to get rid of assault weapons is more than just words on paper.

Source: thestar June 18, 2019 22:41 UTC