Gun control group urges PM Carney to ensure 'timely delivery' on firearm commitments
Gun control group urges PM Carney to ensure 'timely delivery' on firearm commitments
OTTAWA — A prominent gun control group is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to swiftly implement Liberal election promises on firearms and avoid the foot-dragging that left many pledges under the previous government unfulfilled.
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(https://thegunzone.com/how-many-canadians-are-killed-by-gun-violence/)
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Watch the gun-owners quickly do damage control in the comments.
The Conservatives use gun control as a wedge issue. Carney was quick to drop the carbon tax because it was politically toxic - it isn't beyond the pale to imagine he'd do the same with gun control. 🤷♂️
Gun violence in Canada is near exclusively committed with illegal firearms brought up from the states. The limits on long guns for people with PALs does nothing to curb the violence.
Also, lots of specific model gun prohibitions are literally based on how scary a gun looks and not anything to do with things like barrel length or caliber. The FN FAL was recently prohibited because you can fix a bayonet, like all those pesky criminals are doing these days...
Really pushing the disinformation and gaslighting here. Pearl clutching about your weapons designed to kill others under the guise of “hobbies”
Illegal guns are sold from legal owners to criminals. So no they’re not “well intentioned individuals”
There was also an incident where a father used his legal gun to kill his wife, father in law then himself. Wouldn’t have happened if he wasn’t allowed access to guns in the first place.
“78.3% of gun-related domestic homicides in Canada were committed with firearms in the legal possession of licensed owners.”
Your source was published in 1995. A lot of regulation has changed over the last 30 years. I wonder what the numbers look like now.
The sks often has a bayonet and is one of the most common guns in Canada.
Hopefully Carney is smart enough to tell them to go pound sand
Hopefully he actually listens to women who face a disproportionate amount of gun violence even from the legal ones.
The group in the article is anti-gun.
Don't fall for the conservative framing of the issue. If you read the article, these are all sensible commitments that they are requesting, that essentially enshrine further things that actually responsible gun owners would be taking for granted.
Realistically, if this is about closing loop holes, making laws more cut and dry, sure this probably won't really effect responsible gun owners.
Here is what they are actually asking for:
https://polysesouvient.ca/Documents_2025/MAIL_25_05_09_Letter_Carney_PostElections.pdf
These assholes. They can stop making us American. We have a much different relationship with guns and American influence can fuck off out of our country and so can all you promoting it.
A prominent gun control group is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to swiftly implement Liberal election promises on firearms and avoid the foot-dragging that left many pledges under the previous government unfulfilled.
PolySeSouvient includes students and graduates of Montreal's École Polytechnique, where a gunman killed 14 women in 1989.
In 2023, half (49%) of firearm-related violent crime involved the presence of a handgun, followed by a firearm-like weapon or an unknown type of firearm (31%), a rifle or shotgun (15%) and a fully automatic or sawed-off shotgun (4.7%). In the provinces, handguns were most common in urban areas while rifles or shotguns, and firearm-like weapons or unknown types of firearms, were more common in rural areas.
Shooting was the leading cause of death among homicide victims in 2023, accounting for nearly four in ten (38%) of all homicides. More than half (56%) of all shooting homicides were caused by handguns.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2025001/article/00002-eng.htm
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced the national freeze on the sale, purchase, and transfer of handguns comes into effect. From now on, people cannot buy, sell, or transfer handguns within Canada, and they cannot bring newly acquired handguns into the country
Dated October 21, 2022
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2022/10/21/freezing-market-handguns
PolySeSouvient's letter, dated last Friday, is copied to others, including Provost, current Public Safety Minister David McGuinty and Rachel Bendayan, a former associate public safety minister.
The group says the new public safety minister should be directed to:
— build an incentive package in the buyback program to encourage early compliance;
— conduct meaningful consultations with stakeholders before draft bills, regulations, directives and public education campaigns are made public;
— immediately launch an investigation into the classification of the SKS, a rifle that has been used in mass and police shootings, to find a solution that protects public safety and respects Indigenous rights to hunt;
— eliminate all loopholes, exemptions and exceptions related to magazine capacity.
We should hastily implement every recommendation.
I support strict gun control laws, and also have my RPAL.
My question is what specific changes do they want, and what specific weakness does it address?
Are there deficiencies in our laws that could be improved, to reduce firearm injuries and deaths? Let's have at 'em!
Are there specifc guns that are too easy to modify to full-auto? Don't need 'em.
But if we're going to start (continue) banning guns only because they look scary, then stop with the performative BS.
The Liberals are never going to come for my guns because I don't own military style guns and cosplay as a Gravy Seal.