This just off Yahoo News !!!

The problem here is... it's the frickin' Americans smuggling in the guns and selling them to the gangsters in Toronto. Having Canadians involved doesn't help either but both countries are involved in this criminal activity.

Look it up on google, you'll see that smugglers are constantly busted at the Canada-US Borders for smuggling illegal guns.

I don't see how banning them will help. Most gun owners in Canada possess shotguns, rifles or big guns, not handguns. They aren't really much of a problem, it's the illegal guns.
 
Right Banjo both American and Canadians criminal smuggling both two ways. and in another post I made there was an agruement and accusations being thrown at the law abiding gun owners when in reality almost 99% of the gun crimes that happen are stolen guns.... not people who bought the guns from the gun shop in a lawful manner and go home to hunt deer or shoot on the weekends for pleasure on paper targets as well as teaching their family self defense etc. It is the ones who steal the guns that cause the trouble and the public and politicans accuse us when it is really the criminals stealing guns...No law abiding gun owner would commit a crime in fact people who are law abiding gun owners rarely break the law.
 
Here's the article...
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's ruling Liberals, under pressure to clamp down on gun violence in big cities, will move to ban all handguns if they win the January 23 election, Prime Minister Paul Martin said on Thursday.

Canada already has extremely restrictive firearms legislation, but under the Liberal proposal only police and some security officers would be allowed to carry handguns.

So far this year some 50 young men -- most of them black -- have been shot dead in Toronto. Some government officials blame the problem in part on smuggling of handguns from neighboring United States.

"I've come to the conclusion that significant change is needed. I've come to the conclusion that we should ban handguns," Martin told a rally in one of the most violent areas of Toronto.

"Handguns kill people. That's why they exist. They are taking too many Canadian lives," he said.

Canada's murder rate is about one third of that in the United States but there is rising fear about gun crime in Toronto, traditionally a stronghold for the Liberals.

Martin -- saying many handguns used in violent crimes had been stolen from collectors -- made clear collectors would be given a certain amount of time to sell, get rid of or disarm their guns. An amnesty program would also be set up to pay people who handed in their illegal handguns.

He said there would be a "narrow exemption for legitimate target shooters" but gave no further details.

His minority Liberal government was brought down by a corruption scandal last month and polls show he is likely to be returned next month with another minority, which means he will be forced to rely on opposition parties to govern.

Opposition parties dismissed the plan as a gimmick. The left-leaning New Democrats, who backed Martin for much of the year, said the Liberals had cut police funding and social programs designed to help vulnerable members of society.

"The last-minute Liberals want Canadians to believe they are here to fix the problems that have grown over their 12 years of running the country," it said in a statement. The Liberals have been in power since late 1993.

Under Martin's plan, Canada will increase the number of police on the borders to try to cut down on smuggling and would double the penalties for people who used guns during crimes.

The question of gun control is a tricky one for the Liberals, whose attempt to compile a register of rifles and shotguns in the mid-1990s spiraled out of control. The registry, which was originally designed to break even, has so far cost more than C$2 billion ($1.7 billion).
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Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

I think that they should simply arrest the people trying to smuggle the guns and then get rid of the guns.
 
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