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[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

Gun Bans: Is banning handguns from target shooters really the solution to rising levels of violence?

An analysis of gun bans in the UK and Australia and what Canada can learn before spending millions or billions of dollars on buy backs. #cdnpoli #elxn43

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[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

It's always been a gang (and youth) violence problem here. Not a gun problem.

[Toronto Police Association @TPAca]

This city’s youth violence is out of control. A 12-year-old charged with murder while on release shows the system is failing. Where’s the accountability for judges and community supports?

[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

"4 or 5 suspects armed with handguns"

Canada needs to move past the notion that we can ban our way out of a gun violence problem. Bans have proven to be ineffective, here and abroad.

#Huntsville #Canada #guncontrol #CanadaDay

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[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

The now defunct group Doctors for Protection from Guns and other anti-gun groups like @Polysesouvient have long touted femicide as a major reason for further restrictions. But this ignores the reality that most femicide occurs via other lethal methods.
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[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

Sad. Bail reform is something the Trudeau Liberals ignored for years. Instead they sought to attack and criminalize legal gun owners.

Meanwhile we have continued to see repeat offenders, often those involved in violent crime, be released and reoffend.

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[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

Technically still legal to own if you owned one prior to 2020.

And miraculously they haven't jumped out of their safes and gone and killed the "largest number of people in the shortest amount of time"

[PolySeSouvient / PolyRemembers @Polysesouvient]

#Elections2025 #VoteWisely

[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

@Polysesouvient @deAdder Agreed. A terrible loss of life due to a smuggled gun in the hands of a mad man that the RCMP failed to properly investigate.

[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

Assault rifles were banned in Canada in 1978.

Prior to 2020 the AR-15 was a "restricted" rifle in Canada meaning it could only ever be used at a licensed gun range and had to be stored securely, as per regulation, at home.

Violation could result in confiscation and jail time.

[Liberal Party @liberal_party]

We banned assault rifles in Canada.
Pierre Poilievre wants them back on your street.

#Debate2025

[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

@TorontoGunMap @CPC_HQ One more thing that slipped my mind. Maybe the most important.

3) The cost. This is what killed the long gun registry and could make the gun buy back unpopular if it ends up being as expensive as predicted.

[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

@TorontoGunMap If I was advising the @CPC_HQ on gun control, which I'm not, I'd suggest:

1) Question the ban on Olympic pistols.

2) Dont let the Liberals drag you into a debate on Assault style rifles. That killed O'Toole. Attack them on gun crime and how it's risen despite their new laws.

[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

@MountainDogMa @TWilsonOttawa Gun control doesn't prevent crime. France has some of the strictest gun control laws in Europe. But still had Charlie Hebdo. Still had the Bataclan massacre. And most recently still had this:

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[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

Crown sought 120 days for breaking and entering and attempted disarming of a police officer.

The issue isn't gun control in Canada. It's criminal control. It's our justice system.

#cdnpoli #canada

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[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

Alleged Pearson gold heist thief used proceeds from stolen gold to purchase guns to smuggle into Canada.

These are the criminals that we need to be cracking down on, not legal gun owners. @PierrePoilievre
@MarkJCarney @theJagmeetSingh
#guncontrol

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[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

Perhaps because the Conservatives realize where the root of the issue is in Canada? Gun control in Canada is stringent. Our borders, our criminal justice system, organized crime and street gangs - that is what requires our attention. #cdnpoli
#Canada

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[Blake Brown @RBlakeBrown]

Interesting that the Liberals are campaigning on gun control, while the Conservatives are mostly silent on the issue (Poullievre includes a couple of vaguely worded statements at his rallies). It feels like the Conservatives are avoiding the issue after it harmed O’Toole in 2021.

[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

This is already part of the law and has been for decades.

Any PAL holder (firearm Possession and Acquisition License) is subject to a daily background check. A conviction would automatically disqualify them from holding that license and it would be revoked by the RCMP.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Someone who’s been convicted of violent offences — especially intimate partner violence — should not be allowed to own a gun.

My government will automatically revoke their licences.

[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

It's now inhumane to point out the simple fact that the Liberals have -- and in all likelihood will continue with -- a platform of gun confiscation in Canada?

[Kristin Raworth 🇨🇦 @KristinRaworth]

École Polytechnique was the worst mass shooting in Canadian history.
Marc Lépine walked into a classroom, ordered the men to leave, lined up the women and shot them. One of the police officers who came to the scene had to identify his own daughter’s body.
Get some humanity.

[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

@Polysesouvient Well that's a misleading headline. The study doesn't show when a woman owns a firearm, but rather when a firearm is present in the household. And in the US only about 2/10 women own a firearm, but 4/10 have a firearm in the house. Half of these women are unarmed.

[Tim Thurley @timthurley]

The government is not telling the truth that there have been declines in gun violence due to their measures.

Firearm homicide is up since the first major ban in 2020.

Firearm homicides fell in 2023. However, homicides by stabbing fell at a higher rate. Homicides in the United States actually also fell by a similar rate over the same time period (-11.6%) despite not having these measures in place.

The rate of firearm-related homicides was 89% higher in 2023 than in 2013.

These measures exclusively target legal firearm holders. Canada's 2.3 million firearm license holders, according to Statistics Canada's latest report, accounted for 11 out of the 289 firearm homicides, which are in turn a fraction of the 778 total homicides in 2023.

The rate of firearm-related violent crime fell only slightly (-1.7%) from 2022, after surging 8.9% since 2021.

These suggest a few things to me. One, that license holders where the bulk of these efforts are being directed are not the issue. Two, that given the narrow focus of legal changes and the fact that the declines this year were across methods the declines were likely attributable to another factor. Three, that firearm-related violent crime remains an issue and it requires further observation to see if the decline into 2023 was an anomaly.

[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

@StatisticCloud Not at all surprising. Franky is a hack job.

[GunControlFactsCanada @GunFactsCanada]

The only measures put in place were to keep such rifles out of gun ranges and locked in safes.

[Jean-Yves Duclos @jyduclos]

Pierre Poilievre openly admitted in a pro-gun interview that he intends to scrap measures keeping assault-style weapons off our streets.

He’s willing to risk lives to score points with the gun lobby.

https://t.co/hgyYh5nmoO

[StatCloud @StatisticCloud]

The U.K. has been waiting 50 years for their gun bans to work....