1,175 incidents of thefts of legal guns in one year. That is a lot of f**cking guns not coming from across the border. Thems the facts. Time to get your head out of the sand and face the facts. In so many ways, legal gun ownership represents a problem that needs to be controlled - way beyond the controls now in place. Current controls are just not working. A reduction in gun ownership and the types of guns in circulation along with better controls are needed. Those are the facts that the pro-gun lobby consciously chooses to ignore.
"Guns stolen in break and enters
While legal gun owners are being charged less frequently with unsafe storage of a firearm, the number of gun-theft charges has grown.
But the specific offence of "breaking and entering to steal firearm" was only added to the Criminal Code of Canada in 2008 and Statistics Canada only began tracking charges under this law in 2009.
As you can see, the rate of these crimes has more than tripled since then, but some degree of ramping up is to be expected, as police services across the country adapt to a new law. And the number of gun thefts edged downward in 2017, with 1,175 incidents last year."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calg...crime-accidental-shootings-suicides-1.4803378
And you still need to properly source your information.
One of the source information links refers to Di Danieli, whose data cannot be substantiated.
Article also states handgun use specifically, has been on the rise, which are the items being smuggled from the U.S.
Trends have also been downward since 1996
1175 gun thefts is not a lot. There are about 12 million guns in Canada, so .01% of guns were stolen.
There were 85,000 vehicle thefts in Canada.
Current gun control is working. If it wasn't, there would be mayhem out there with 12 million guns in the country. 10 million of which are not registered.
That's why career police officers who have fought crime for at least 25 years each, like RCMP Staff Sergeant Major Dave Woods, Retired OPP Commissioner Rod Davies and Chief Constable of Vancouver John Stewart are not pushing for bans and have stated bans would be ineffective. The Commisioner of the RCMP, Brenda Lucki is not endorsing a gun ban either.
Don't you get it? The very people who are fighting to prevent crime don't support a ban. People with access to subject matter experts, years of experience in both front line policing and major crimes do not support your hairbrained idea.
The Ontario Premier, who has spent a significant amount of time in Chicago, a gun ridden city with strict gun control has also said it doesn't work.
The Liberal Government is only talking about "limiting" access to firearms, and none of his proposals will have any effect because gun owners already meet the criteria outlined. If the Conservatives win, even this will likely be repealed, and there will be NO consideration at all of any type of ban. Scheer has stated this.
So even if you vote for Trudeau who has given away millions to known terrorists, has deficit spent like a drunken sailor and has spent more time travelling than any Prime Minister in history and whose mark on Canada is legal pot, you're not going to get what you want.
