Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been on an anti-gun jihad for quite some time. The fact that it distracted from his “brown face” scandal is only one of the reasons he’s gone down this road, of course, but I’d hate myself if I didn’t remind people that he started this to deflect from media attacks.
And because Canada has no Second Amendment, he’s been a lot more successful in pushing gun control down people’s throats than American lawmakers have been. One thing he did was put a “freeze” on handgun transfers, basically making it impossible for anyone to buy a handgun, the preferred tool for most self-defense purposes.
He even bragged about it.
But not everyone is buying that. Among them are police officers.
The TPAca [Toronto Police Association] responded to Trudeau’s tweet by noting, “Criminals did not get your message. Our communities are experiencing a 45% increase in shootings and a 62% increase in gun-related homicides compared to this time last year.”
TPAca noted that criminals continue to move handguns across borders; that “85% of guns seized by [TPAca] members can be sourced to the United States.”
They added, “Your statement is out of touch and offensive to victims of crime and police officers everywhere. Whatever you think you’ve done to improve community safety, has not worked.”
Let’s be real here, that’s a significant bump up in crime.
I touched on that a bit on Tuesday, but that was just one community. This is across the board.
Now, the fact that the guns are sourced to the United States might look like some kind of incrimination on our gun policy, and it might be, but the reality is that the fact that they come from the US means that they’re not part of the lawful trade of firearms. That means no gun control policy is going to have any impact on these crimes.
Which is something we’ve been saying for decades.
The truth of the matter is that Canada’s handgun policy isn’t that much different than what Kamala Harris backed when she was the district attorney of San Francisco.
And that would have worked just as well as Trudeau’s de facto handgun ban has done.
You can’t hamstring the law-abiding while doing nothing to the criminals and then be shocked when it doesn’t work. The underlying assumption of gun control advocates, though, is that you can.
Yet if criminals can get drugs–something pretty much illegal everywhere to some degree or another–into the country with regularity, then why does anyone believe that they won’t get guns no matter what you do?
If there’s a demand, someone will meet it.
At best, Trudeau simply changed who could meet that demand, but considering the massive increase in shootings, it looks like he didn’t even really do that. He just made sure the bad guys had nothing to worry about when they rampaged around the country.
Brilliant.
