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In other words, how a gun looks has little to do with how it performs relative to other models.

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But the Liberals are proposing to ban certain models based solely on looks. That means the government is not serious about public safety. They are not worried about the potential of some guns to cause more death and destruction than other guns. They’re just worried about perceptions.

They are not banning AR-15s because they have been involved in a lot of crimes or because, in and of themselves, they are especially dangerous. If the Trudeau-ites were serious, they’d ban deer-hunting variants of the AR-15 with similar innards but without the military-looking muzzles, grips and sights. The deer-hunters fire just as many bullets just as fast and just as powerfully.

Instead, the Liberals’ intent is solely to make some grand symbolic gesture. They want to be able to boast to uninformed voters that they are taking steps to make them safer.

The Liberal policy will do nothing to stop criminals. It will amount to nothing more than virtue signalling that costs taxpayers hundreds of millions and confiscates private property from law-abiding gun owners who are no threat to anyone.

Toronto may have a gun crime problem (which I’m pretty sure is why this issue has even been raised during the campaign). So far this year there have been 342 shootings in Canada’s largest city. That’s more than all of last year.

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But most of those are related to the drug trade or some other crime, and most involve handguns almost certainly acquired illegally from the U.S.