Globe editorial: It's time for Canada to ban handguns

Globe editorial: It’s time for Canada to ban handguns

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-globe-editorial-its-time-for-canada-to-ban-handguns/

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In response, the Trudeau government asked Bill Blair, the Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction, to examine whether the government should ban handguns and so-called “assault weapons.”

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.

But victims of urban handgun violence don’t understand why calls to ban handguns, or at the very least to make them more difficult to acquire, are translated into an attack on the right to own any kind of gun at all.

We don’t understand it either. Hunting rifles and small-calibre “varmint guns” are legitimate firearms for legal ownership. But, as we said last week, semi-automatic rifles that can accommodate large magazines ought to be banned in Canada. The same can be said of handguns. They have no place in a peaceful society.


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