When it comes to guns in Canada, there are two very different takes on their usefulness.
The majority of the victims in Toronto were young men of colour living in community housing, but in July the violence spilled into a more affluent neighbourhood and briefly woke up the country’s politicians. The resulting debate has been predictable. Licensed firearm owners fear that new restrictions aimed at urban handgun violence will end up undermining their ability to buy and use the long guns they need and safely enjoy.
In Canada, handguns have a very limited legal purpose. Canadians are not allowed to buy them for self-defence, and they can’t hunt with them. Handguns are restricted firearms, which means they can only be part of a collection or used for target-shooting.
GlobeDebate Bans affect only lawful gun owners. Criminals carry illegal guns so a ban is meaningless to them. Being jailed for an illegal gun is a normal business risk to them
GlobeDebate And what exactly is that going to solve? Criminals will still have theirs ban or not.
GlobeDebate U legalize Marijuana, how can u ban guns. 2 opposite thoughts. Focus on money, do you thing people r people any more
GlobeDebate No, it's not.
GlobeDebate It’s time for Canadian politicians To FocusOnCrime Canada is no longer a free country! There are countless examples that banning anything does not work! Making good people defenceless!.. Will not make bad people harmless!
GlobeDebate Why does the continue to state that most crime guns are domestically sourced. This is false and an outright lie. It has been disproves by Denise Young through an ATIP. This is not journalism. Also 900000 restricted firearms shows a valid use
GlobeDebate We live next to country with millions of handguns, banning them here simply won’t work, more virtue signaling from the libs.
GlobeDebate Handguns were outlawed in 1934
GlobeDebate Hey remember when PM Harper had enacted minimum sentences for criminals committing offenses with a firearm and it was ruled unconstitutional by our lovely Supreme Court? Good times. They really covered themselves in glory that time.
GlobeDebate It's time to ban The Globe and Mail.
GlobeDebate As you state, gangs and illegal handguns are a problem, not legal. One takes action if there is evidence but there is no evidence that a legal handgun from legal owners will have any impact on crime. So, let’s take 1M personal items from Canadians to see if that helps...not!
GlobeDebate Check the stats the criminals are not using licensed hand guns to commit crimes
GlobeDebate And these illogical and ignorant positions are exactly why I am no longer a subscriber. Gangs and criminals are the problem. Not sport shooting.
GlobeDebate It’s time to ban politicians from stealing private property - not to mention SNC has undermined your credibility.
GlobeDebate Wow. Please do basic fact-checking before publishing your editorials. Over 300,000 Cdns use handguns safely and responsibly. Guns used by Danforth Murderer were either smuggled from the US or stolen - police refuse to say. But I get it. You have an agenda to sell at our expense.
GlobeDebate Show me the evidence that legally obtained handguns are a problem in shooting. Illegal handguns are already banned.
GlobeDebate Fuck off.
GlobeDebate This is the logic of liberals gun control.
GlobeDebate So, if there are a few people who break the law, the millions of people who do not should be punished?
GlobeDebate If legally owned handguns have doubled in 10 years yet murder rate is down or unchanged in those 10 years, maybe it is the illegal guns that are the issue otherwise wouldn't logic say gun deaths should have doubled?
GlobeDebate You want to save our society? Ban Islam..,that’s why we need guns!!
GlobeDebate OK let's do it. What are we waiting for enough with guns get rid of them . Let's be the first North Americans to do the right thing.
GlobeDebate It's time to stop this crap editorial of a story!
GlobeDebate Nonsense. Criminals register NOTHING. Punishing target shooters and duck hunters will do NOTHING to curb gang and terrorist violence. CCW communities are actually statistically SAFER. CCW could have SAVED Danforth and other terror victims. Stop making victims out of EVERYONE.
GlobeDebate Wrong.
GlobeDebate That's rich coming from someone who used to have one hanging on his hip. Maybe only police should have them...right BillBlair
GlobeDebate Nice hatchet job. Do you guys even bother fact checking
GlobeDebate Do a trial run in Toronto
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GlobeDebate Its time to fk off and mind your own business in regards to law abiding gun owners. FIGHT CRIME, NOT FELLOW CANUCKS WHO DON'T BREAK THE LAW!
GlobeDebate Not happening. Ok so you couldn’t come with any ideas that actually might stop the violence in our communities?
GlobeDebate Totally idiotic that will not remove smuggled US guns in the streets of Toronto- this is not a policy it’s a WEDGE ELECTION ISSUE designed to divide Canadians- that’s Trudeau’s speciality...tearing Canada apart!!!
GlobeDebate Doctors kill more people than guns. Google that, fool.
GlobeDebate It’s time for Canada to let news outlets sink or swim on their own merits.
GlobeDebate Nope, it's time for Canada to ban Libranos. Then 'QuacksAgainstLawAbidingCitizens' would have to ger back in their lane & work on stuff lime leaving their tools inside patients & handing out narcotics like Pez dispenser refills!
GlobeDebate It’s time to ban The Globe and Mail. It would have the same effect!
GlobeDebate You can kiss that idea off, this is Canada *NOT* Nazi Germany , if these Hopkplophobic Liberal pussies are offended by guns thats *their* personal psychological issues to deal with but owners of handguns and AR 15 rifles used for sport ts attacked by this Nazi wanna be
GlobeDebate fakenews
GlobeDebate Criminals will just break that law too. 🙄
GlobeDebate Criminals will still be armed. Check the crime stats in legislated “gun free” zones in the US.
GlobeDebate It's time to ban corrupt politicians!
GlobeDebate Another pathetic attempt to reduce freedom. Handgun laws are already ridiculously tight
GlobeDebate As if the liberals will ever leave us alone. I both hunt and shoot competitively. So this pos that write this dribble has no idea of the demographics of a gun owner in canada. Total garbage designed to splinter gun owners into two categories: hunters and potential killers
GlobeDebate It's time for Canada to ban Trudeau and his Liberals.
GlobeDebate Bill looks very old and punch drunk - time for the liberals to take a much needed exit from governing
GlobeDebate Handguns are a band. To legally acquire them you need to obtain a license after training,background, check reference check.
GlobeDebate We want to punish the people who are obeying the law? Criminals are not registering their weapons, taking course, getting licenses and criminal checks, and won't even with a ban. Gun control doesn't equal crime control. Boy liberal politicians are dumb.
GlobeDebate after liberal_party are gone in October so will the chance of ever seeing a piece of the $600 million!!! The bias and lies against law abiding citizens will end!!!
GlobeDebate No, its time for canada to fight crime, and the illegal importation of firearms and disturbution to criminals. Leave law abiding citizens alone!
GlobeDebate It's time for canada to ban stupid journalists.
GlobeDebate It's time for you to look up some stats
GlobeDebate Dear , the next time you want to check to see if your editorial is factual, we’d be happy to take a look at it. Our customers are licensed by the RCMP to own firearms. They aren’t the problem. It’s time to have a bigger conversation about violent crime and its roots.
GlobeDebate That man looks very unwell...bloated.
GlobeDebate Fcuk off Globe. How about we ban your rag instead?
GlobeDebate Counterpoint: no, it’s not.
GlobeDebate Ban murder. Let target shooters shoot.
GlobeDebate Hmm, Op Ed from the PMO to push a distraction from JWR/JP and lavscam per chance I suppose you think criminals with illegal firearms smuggled in from the US will what? Just say 'Oh Darn' and stop using them? Legal owners are not the problem, a ban will solve nothing.
GlobeDebate Tell Hitler to get lost.
GlobeDebate It’s time for Canada to respect law-abiding firearms owners who lawfully own and use handguns.
GlobeDebate Sorry Toronto. You messed up your own city and are not going to slough off the blame on the rest of the honest citizens in the country.
GlobeDebate Yah nope.
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GlobeDebate Ban on hand guns is really going to stop the criminal gangs from using them to shot each other and innocent bystanders. Typical Liberal response. Bunch of 🤡
GlobeDebate Editorial BS passed off as news!!
GlobeDebate Thank you for your coverage of this important topic. If your reporters or editors ever want to go shooting to experience the reality of how millions of Canadian men, women and youth own and use firearms, we'll set it up. Gun bans disarm only those who obey them.
GlobeDebate A woman with a gun will beat a creep without a gun all the time.
GlobeDebate How about BANNING HIM from office. 🤔
GlobeDebate It’s the “illegal” handguns that are the problem. Not the normal responsible gun owners,
GlobeDebate This might be the worst, most uninformed article I’ve ever read. It’s factually wrong. Disappointing for the globe and mail.
GlobeDebate Lol. The people pushing this are foolish. I bet the legal & registered restricted hand gun owners have a more in depth background check than the politicians pushing the ban. And the database is checked daily. The actual problem...criminals...not so much.
GlobeDebate The author believes smuggled guns are not the source of illegal guns. What about the Michigan man that smuggled 70+ guns into Canada? He may have well have been key in providing the firearms that increased Toronto’s gun murder rate between gangs.
GlobeDebate When did they limit us to 9 round pistol mags? Also going to be embarrassing when this person realizes the AR15 shoots a varmint round and that self defence is maybe the most traditional use for firearms... oof
GlobeDebate Here’s another Liberal fool with no spine!
GlobeDebate And this will stop all the illegally smuggled one's in the gangs are using how? It's your info graph globe news 😊 and how about all the knife homicides that make up the other 1/3 of homicides and that are almost par for par with illegal gun homicides ? Any real solutions ?
GlobeDebate Let's ban those who commit crime with handguns !
GlobeDebate It’s time to ban taping phone conversations. It turned out there are deadly. They killed the Liberal party. Liberal what?
GlobeDebate More lazy journalism
GlobeDebate Yes! And if you disagree, tell me a sane reason that you need a handgun?
GlobeDebate Foolish article. Hand guns are so restricted now, banning will not change a single thing other helping some politicians get elected.
GlobeDebate They are already banned, you idiots. That doesn't stop people from getting them illegally from the states.
GlobeDebate Nope
GlobeDebate It's time to ban Justin Trudeau
GlobeDebate Sure why not. But every gangster I’ve ever known has an illegal handgun from the US
GlobeDebate Just so the Conservative Party can undo it once again?
GlobeDebate Anyone have an image of a horse running away from an open barn door?
GlobeDebate They're already banned. You need a permit just to transport it to the range.
GlobeDebate No it is not. Canadian handgun owners are vetted and checked. Handgun violence in Canada is about illegal guns not legal. Stop giving away Canadian freedoms.
GlobeDebate It's time for Canada to ban JustinTrudeau trudeauresign
GlobeDebate Idiot ban handguns ban drugs ban rape murder home invasions burglary Oh i feel so much safer
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