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If only Trudeau was serious about making communities safer.

The Liberals love to point to Bill C-71, which became law at the end of June just as Parliament rose for the summer.

Yes, it took the Liberals their full mandate to pass their lone gun control measure. What it did was create paperwork for law-abiding gun owners, while failing to deal with the real problem of gangsters with illegal guns.

One of the measures that the Liberals like to brag about bringing in to make communities safer is reversing a Harper government decision on transporting guns.

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For years, licenced gun owners were required to contact the police and get an additional permit to take certain guns from their homes to the range. The Harper government said that if someone was licenced, they didn’t need to do this additional step.

Trudeau has reversed that and soon gun owners will need to be calling the police to get that extra permit again. This is how the Liberals say they are keeping communities safer.

Ask yourself the obvious question: Do you think the people that shot and killed Davis would’ve called police to get permission for their illegal guns so they could go and attack rivals and kill innocent bystanders?

The answer is obviously no.

Yet, that is what Bill C-71 was all about, adding paperwork to the lives of police and the already-licenced gun owner but not doing anything to tackle illegally-smuggled guns or dealing with the criminals using them.

Now the Liberals are floating the idea of some kind of gun ban.