I have real philosophical issues with the state wanting to take my property and with people who do the mindless "if it saves one life" condescension, but beyond that for all of us the issue should be the approach being taken. Violent gang members and organized criminals aren't suddenly going to start carrying knives instead of glocks, and people making $3k per gun smuggled over the border aren't going to stop doing so, just because the feds bypass provincial oversight somehow and Tory "bans" handguns from city limits. And spending a billion or so buying back random restricted firearms is just setting money on fire in the context of the gun crime we have.

If we are concerned about gun crime we deserve our representatives taking the issue seriously and proposing meaningful initiatives - which will take a long time, and require buy in from all levels of government, and be really difficult, and may need trial and error - rather than headline grabbers. Mental health funding, a better job on smuggling, reducing court backlogs, real sentences over slaps on the wrist, doing the reference checking already supposed to be done when we apply for PALs, solutions for communities at risk, all the other stuff mentioned in this thread. It's so demoralizing to know we're never going to get that because Bill Blair gurning in front of a table of rusty mini 14s will be sold as a "success" and used in re-election ads.