FULL-AUTO FEAR, FAKERY & FOOFERAW
Well, they made you register one in 1934 and people didn't line up to get permits to rob banks with the things.
Then they had a war in which another million Tommies were made, plus Gawd knows how many Brens and about 3 million Brownings. Some of those got into circulation, but nobody lined up to get permits to rob banks with those ones, either.
Then the Liberals decided that they had to be more sensitive and protecting of the public, so they "tightened up" on the full-auto regulations and, at the same time, reduced the penalties for the violent criminals who might want to use them to rob banks. Nobody bit. No massacres. No spates of machine-gun-armed criminals robbing banks with Ma Deuce or Bob the Bofors.
Obviously these things MUST be a Public Menace. Just think of what COULD happen. So they tightened up again. "If it saves just one child!!" Insert your own preferred paranoid platitude here. Only machine-gun deaths from LEGAL machine-guns were of innocent civilians on their way home for Christmas.
So Avril Phaedra Campbell, a homophobic Lieberal in Con-girl clothing, tightened up yet again.
And STILL there are no parades of wanna-be bank-robbers, filling up the police stations to get permits to rob banks, off their neighbours and so forth.
EIGHTY YEARS of increasing restrictions and still NO wave of violent machine-gun crime. It's really quite disappointing when you think of it.
EVERY single incident of crime in which a machine-gun was used was ILLEGAL because nobody got their permit to transport and use the thing to commit the crime. They were all CRIMINAL acts. Except for the house-painters and a handful of others, all killed or wounded by LEGAL use of machine-guns in the hands of the Government, no matter how irresponsible the use.
In order to make this country SAFER from the MENACE of automatic firearms, what should be done is twofold: (a) first, the Government will give up all of its full-autos, these being the ones which actually kill and wound Canadians, and (b) target shooters and collectors will be allowed to take theirs out shooting once again and even to purchase new imports, being that there are NO incidents of violent crime arising from the use of these firearms over a period of 81 years.
THEN we will all be MUCH SAFER.
And if the Criminals ever start using the things, we can get the Government to put them in jail. THAT's why we have LAWS in the first place: to control the CRIMINALS
Instead, the Criminals get Government-paid lawyers while the Government makes paper-crime Criminals out of non-violent Citizens.
Gotta get those statistics up SOMEHOW.