The irony is that Canada has as many guns as the US BUT they are mainly hunting rifles. And we tend not to solve our problems with guns - except for gangs and that IS a problem that the police are fighting every day. Trump is worried about us sending drugs south? Let him stop the river of guns coming north.
We need your ideas Sherrie! Even if the law is there.....it has to be enforced .....and that seems to be a problem for the US Another "well done" Sherrie.
In Canada, there are 650,000 legal hand gun owners, and about 12 million legal long gun owners some of whom have both types of fire arms. That group includes me. The US has way, way more You'll notice Canadians call guns - Fire Arms, Americans call them weapons. It comes down to a cultural difference, and very simply to people. In Canada, we have very, very strong regulations as to who can own and use a Fire Arm - but criminals / gangs here - still get and use guns and we get the occasional mentally ill person getting a Fire Arm illegally. The point is Governments around the world ( except the US ) have cracked down on LEGAL gun owners and are surprized that mass killings and crime using guns still happens - because it's not LEGAL gun owners that are the problem - they are just the easy targets. Governments impose driving laws yet I watch every day 99% of the drivers - even cops break driving laws!!! Should there be detailed scrutiny of the people who desirer gun ownership absolutely. Will it stop the sad social outcomes of these mass shootings - no. Just like people supporting their Governments killing massive numbers of Palestinians (50,000 so far) , or 500,000 Iraqi children, or stealing Syrian oil for years, or sending Billions to Ukraine, causing the Deaths of 800.000+ young and not so young Ukrainian military...and the list goes on, and on - the point is societies get exactly what they support. (No surprize there)
The irony is that Canada has as many guns as the US BUT they are mainly hunting rifles. And we tend not to solve our problems with guns - except for gangs and that IS a problem that the police are fighting every day. Trump is worried about us sending drugs south? Let him stop the river of guns coming north.
We need your ideas Sherrie! Even if the law is there.....it has to be enforced .....and that seems to be a problem for the US Another "well done" Sherrie.
In Canada, there are 650,000 legal hand gun owners, and about 12 million legal long gun owners some of whom have both types of fire arms. That group includes me. The US has way, way more You'll notice Canadians call guns - Fire Arms, Americans call them weapons. It comes down to a cultural difference, and very simply to people. In Canada, we have very, very strong regulations as to who can own and use a Fire Arm - but criminals / gangs here - still get and use guns and we get the occasional mentally ill person getting a Fire Arm illegally. The point is Governments around the world ( except the US ) have cracked down on LEGAL gun owners and are surprized that mass killings and crime using guns still happens - because it's not LEGAL gun owners that are the problem - they are just the easy targets. Governments impose driving laws yet I watch every day 99% of the drivers - even cops break driving laws!!! Should there be detailed scrutiny of the people who desirer gun ownership absolutely. Will it stop the sad social outcomes of these mass shootings - no. Just like people supporting their Governments killing massive numbers of Palestinians (50,000 so far) , or 500,000 Iraqi children, or stealing Syrian oil for years, or sending Billions to Ukraine, causing the Deaths of 800.000+ young and not so young Ukrainian military...and the list goes on, and on - the point is societies get exactly what they support. (No surprize there)