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No magic wand to end Toronto gun violence, mayor says.Advocates say troubling crime stats demand action.
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Liberals have pitched the bill, C-71, as a collection of "common-sense measures that will crack down on illegal handguns and assault weapons, creating safer communities" while "protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners." The changes were explicitly promised in the last Liberal election platform as a way to reverse a decade's worth of Conservative government changes to gun rules that the Trudeau government claims have bolstered gun-related crime.Ĭritics maintain the bill is nothing more than a symbolic sop for gun control advocates that will penalize lawful gun owners by burdening them with unreasonable regulations.
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In response to these pleas, the federal Liberals are pointing to their multi-million dollar spending plan for a guns-and-gangs initiative, and new legislation Ottawa says will tighten the country's firearms regime and keep more guns out of the hands of criminals.īut will the bill slow the circulation of crime guns used to commit these increasingly brazen homicides? But is only just that.As major Canadian cities face a spike in gun violence - Toronto has seen 10 people shot in just the last five days - local leaders are calling on the federal government to do more to help them grapple with a wave of gang-related crime. It is also notable that even with the number of firearms police have reported seizing, they are also likely nabbing a tiny percentage of the illegal firearms in circulation. Although the seizures have been increasing, the numbers are still low. The data shows it’s clear the Canada Border Service Agency is missing many of the guns coming into the country. Mendicino, who is making the rounds to promote the federal gun policy, believes the Liberals are on their way to accomplish their safety goals. “And I would say that my top priorities in addition to passing Bill C-21 are going to be to take the next steps to implement the buyback program, which will get the assault-style rifles, AR-15 style rifles out of our communities once and for all.” “There's a lot of work that needs to be done,” says Mendicino. But the question of how best to crack down on gun smuggling is one that legislation may be unable to solve - at least in the short term. The federal government is banking on legislation to combat this long-standing problem. In addition, while some police services collect information on shootings, there is no consistent definition of a shooting applied by police services in Canada, nor are there consistent criteria used to assess whether a shooting actually occurred (e.g., a witness heard shots fired, bullet casings found).” “There is little information currently collected about the characteristics of these firearms, such as details about the exact type of gun, who owned it (e.g., accused, victim, or someone else), how it was stored, or whether the owner was licensed. "Handguns were the most serious weapon present in the majority of firearm-related violent crimes … between 20 (59 per cent) and between 20 (59 per cent),” according to a report Mary Allen wrote for the Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics.Īllen’s report also points out there’s still a lot of crucial information about these firearms we don’t know. NDP public safety critic Alistair MacGregor says legislation, policy and resources are required to combat gun smuggling.