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Criminals don’t submit to background checks before buying guns on the black market. As for controls on transporting guns, those are for licensed gun owners and the measures require them to ask for permission to take their guns to the gun range.

Does anyone actually think that criminals ask for permission from a police officer before shooting a residential street full of bullets?

The obvious answer is that no, they don’t.

Trudeau promised there would be more gun control measures in the Liberal platform in the election but still wouldn’t commit to the handgun or “assault weapons” ban that he and his MPs hint at.

“I very much look forward to the election campaign in which we will be able to share with Canadians our vision for how to keep Canadians more safe,” Trudeau said suggesting that new gun control legislation will be a big part of their plan.

Do I have to state the obvious again?

Gun control focuses police resources on those that already follow the law, not the criminals that break it and cause the problems in cities across Canada.

Trudeau refused to focus on criminals except to say that we needed more community centres and hubs for people to gather at. He never once commented on getting tougher on criminals despite being invited to.

The mayor, for his part, said that dealing with root causes was needed but also said issues, such as bail, were important.

“We have to address the root causes of gun violence,” Tory said, “and get much tougher with criminals who often laugh at things, literally laugh at things like bail and sentencing practices of both the laws and the way in which they’re implemented.”

Trudeau, for the second day in a row, would not offer comment on such measures despite being invited to do so. Instead, he talked about the need to put more regulations on law-abiding gun owners and to spend more on social programs.

It’s clear that when it comes to the gun crime problem facing Toronto and other cities across the country that Trudeau only sees a gun problem and not a crime problem.

In his worldview, take guns away from law-abiding citizens and you will solve the problem. Too bad those behind the current crime wave don’t already follow the law and won’t in the future.