Lorne Gunter: No public safety benefit from Liberals' plan to confiscate 'assault-style' firearms
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During his campaign to become Liberal leader and again during the federal election, Mark Carney promised to follow through with his party's five-year-old plan to confiscate 'assault-style' firearms from law-abiding Canadians.
This is yet another way the Carney government is very much like the Trudeau government.
Below I'll get into the insanity of a government thinking it can stop criminals from using firearms illegally by forcing non-criminals to give up their legal property. This is the logical equivalent of forcing all non-drinking Canadians to surrender their cars to the government because drunk drivers are causing death and mayhem on our roads.
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