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Originally Posted by Anthony
Canada is still a part of the commonwealth. The United States fought and claimed it's independece from the UK. We have different histories, and yes, they make up our country's identities.
No one has said increase the number of guns, rather, let law abiding citizens carry them. Which, you may not know, is fast becoming the standard across the USA. "Stand Your Ground Laws" are becoming mandate when it comes to self protection, which was started in Florida, and is a success.
It is easier to say "Make it harder to get a gun on the black market", another to make it happen.
The "Make It Harder" defense has been used for quite a few things. How easy is it to get drugs in Toronto?
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Our Histories are irrelevant to this debate. By getting more "law abiding" citizens to carry guns you are increasing the demand for guns and therefore the manufacturers are going to need to produce more guns. As the desire for legal guns increases, so will the amout of guns that make their way to the blackmarket, therefore increasing the need for guns. This is a relationship that will only result in more deaths.
I think that it is quite easy to make it harder to get a hand gun on the black market. If they stop making them all together, no new hand guns will be available on the blackmarket ones. Obviously stolen guns will always be there, but the available number of hand guns will decrease over time if they simply are not available for purchase any more.
I'm sure it easy to get drugs in Toronto as it is any city. Hell, once I was in London at King's Cross and a guy casually walked up to me and said, "hey man, do you know where I can get two hits of LSD for 20 pounds"? Drugs will always be around so long as there is a market for them and people want them enough to ask total strangers if they have them. But drugs are different than guns because drugs are illegal to manufacture, so you are missing the point here. Besides, Canada does not have a "war on drugs"
Guns are legally manufactured and taxed, etc. I think you will find that if hand guns were illegal (and the legal manufacturers no longer produced them) there will be much less gun violence over the period of 10-20 years. Obviously this is a hypothesis and open to debate.
However, more hand guns is always going to equal more deaths and gun violence.