Niagara Falls Review e-edition

Gun control talk shooting blanks

Re: Conservatives and Liberals are both missing the biggest danger from guns, Toronto Star Editorial, Sept. 8

This is just another filler piece that dances around the large non-issue of a ban on assault rifles and the like and takes a quick twirl around the dance floor with the largest issue — handguns.

Banning handguns is, quite simply, silly and useless. Except for police, security and military, and very rare private exceptions, handguns are effectively already banned everywhere in Canada.

A new citywide ban would have absolutely no effect. Banning them would be as effective as the ban on murder, drunk driving, arson or robbery, etc.

The effective action is to police and punish offenders severely. Police the gun smuggling with additional border resources and increased penalties. Consider a provision that would tie any prior crimes associated with an illegal gun to the current possessor.

But a paper ban is totally useless.

Bert Dandy

Niagara Falls

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