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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre dodged questions Sunday about whether he would repeal the federal government's handgun ban, a measure brought in to tamp down on the diversion of legal firearms into the hands of bad actors.

Poilievre hasn't said much during this campaign about what he would do with the Liberal firearms legislation he voted against while in Parliament, but he has blasted the last government's "assault-style" firearm buyback program as a "gun grab" that he would scrap.

Gun control advocates say any legislation to curb the flow of firearms is a worthy measure to try and reduce incidents of crime and violence. Firearms rights advocates meanwhile say the Liberal suite of policies only punish lawful gun owners who play by the rules.

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[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

He wants to play to his base. Canadian licensed gun owners are overwhelmingly not the problem.

US border porosity is.

This is a wedge issue. Cons lock up the gun vote which is larger than you think, especially in rural areas.

The Libs lockup the antigun vote popular in urban areas and especially Québec.

Both parties have abandoned "good government" policies, with over and under reach respectively while ignoring the real issues.

If you want to tackle gun crime, that 2 billion Fentanyl Czar and Hellicopter patrol needs to be chasing drugs AND guns. It's the same people, using sthe same methods. We also need to build more prisons and jails so violent offenders don't get the "commit another crime while on bail from the last one".

Libs and Cons need to stop playing wedge politics and do their duty to grounded, evidence based legislation that doesn't flip flop and turn innocent gun owners into paper criminals or wastr money buying back legally acquired guns that were never used in crimes or by criminals.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

Libs and Cons need to stop playing wedge politics and do their duty to grounded, evidence based legislation

This is the key problem.

Canadian parties don't come up with broad, well considered policies to solve a problem. Instead, they have a portfolio of individual policies designed to attract different demographics at election time.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago

This comment ignores the fact that legal guns still increase deaths in Canada.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago

Everything increases deaths in Canada. Cars, food, chemicals. Evidence based policy means you tailor the response to the problem. Legal firearms are a fart in a hurricane and doesn't warrant the disproportionate bans and buybacks while ignoring the real problems of smuggling and crime, especially repeat criminals.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 0 points 13 hours ago

A whole lot of whatboutism. We should regulate things that are dangerous and not sit on our hands doing nothing. Canada is way better off without guns.

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