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When politicians don’t know what to do, they make sure it looks like they are doing something.

That is what is happening with what passes for debate on gun control in this country.

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After the shooting in Toronto and Fredericton calls for a handgun ban have grown louder.

First it was Toronto City Council calling for a ban on handguns from the feds and a ban on the sale of ammunition from the province. Now Montreal and is joining that call with their own motion.

Just to make sure we didn’t forget the Ontario Liberal Party existed, two of their seven member caucus came forward this week to table a private member’s bill that would allow municipalities to ban the sale of handgun ammunition.

We have to take action to stem that flow of ammunition and to reduce those incidences,” Liberal MP Mitzie Hunter said.

“By banning the sale of ammunition it makes it more difficult to access firearms,” her colleague Nathalie Des Rosiers added.