again: i have little opposition to this, but don't be surprised when it doesn't actually work.

you don't solve problems by passing decrees, you need to get to root causes. and, the root cause here is a creeping americanization in our culture that is increasingly glorifying gun use.

i mean, we just legalized marijuana because we realized that banning it doesn't work in reducing use, you need to get to root causes, instead. now, they want to ban guns? there's an incoherence in policy underlying this.

if you want to actually solve this problem - rather than work up your political base - you take a data-driven approach, not get trigger happy on authoritarian policies that don't work.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/12/06/trudeau-says-government-will-limit-access-to-handguns-assault-weapons-on-anniversary-of-ecole-polytechnique-shooting.html