It seems every time someone get shot somewhere the thread sets the pro guns against the anti guns.
The key restrictions would be that one can't refer to studies mainly because most studies are paid for by biased organizations and only released if they are favourable to the guy writing the check. Statistics based on guns per person are bogus as well because they don't take into account other social factors.
My biggest objection is that if the pro guns get the laws relaxed to US standards and the whole thing backfires how does the pro gun lobby reverse the situation after a million Glocks cross the border?
It's a devil you know instead of the one you don't situation and Canada is a pretty safe devil right now.
What does it cost the gun owner is there are more dead bodies. If their lobby became successful and backfired what would it cost them compared the the losses suffered by the victims? Do the gun lobbyist say "Shucks, we were wrong" and walk away with a freeby? What do they put on the line? Nothing to lose.
Fire away (Pun intended)
The key restrictions would be that one can't refer to studies mainly because most studies are paid for by biased organizations and only released if they are favourable to the guy writing the check. Statistics based on guns per person are bogus as well because they don't take into account other social factors.
My biggest objection is that if the pro guns get the laws relaxed to US standards and the whole thing backfires how does the pro gun lobby reverse the situation after a million Glocks cross the border?
It's a devil you know instead of the one you don't situation and Canada is a pretty safe devil right now.
What does it cost the gun owner is there are more dead bodies. If their lobby became successful and backfired what would it cost them compared the the losses suffered by the victims? Do the gun lobbyist say "Shucks, we were wrong" and walk away with a freeby? What do they put on the line? Nothing to lose.
Fire away (Pun intended)
