Definitely the idea that registering weapons will keep them out of the "wrong" hands is a false idea - the gun registry put into place after the École Polytechnique shootings in Montréal didn't stop the Dawson College shootings in the same city. That's why our politicians decided to get rid of that registry - it wasn't working.
Background checks and licensing, though, do keep weapons out of the hands of the mentally ill. Not completely - reference the Dawson College shootings - but enough to save some lives.
And you've had training in this area - but how many of your neighbours have? Check the statistics on accidental firearm deaths before you answer that.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Background checks and licensing, though, do keep weapons out of the hands of the mentally ill. Not completely - reference the Dawson College shootings - but enough to save some lives.
And you've had training in this area - but how many of your neighbours have? Check the statistics on accidental firearm deaths before you answer that.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012