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We need to almost completely ban guns in Canada (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/canadapolitics@lemmy.ca
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The recreation use from them is not worth the inevitable shootings. As the safety of the many come before the pleasure of the few. Not to mention the lead exposure on the environment from the bullet casings left on the ground and all the noise that's caused from all the firing disrupting the wildlife.

If you want to play with guns like toys go take a vacation down south.

The only people who should have access to guns are the military, special forces and hunters in remote areas without any food alternatives.

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[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Canada needs better boarder controls. You can make buying and selling a gun a mandatory double life sentence but that doesn't do anything about the handcannons that get shipped up from the US.

If you want to pick a battle that saves the most lives go after cars and giant, pedestrian murdering, pickup trucks. Vehicle related fatalities were >5 per 100k in 2022 but firearms related fatalities were only 0.88 per 100k.