The most disturbing thing about watching Justin Trudeau and his Liberals drip out plans for their gun control strategy is watching them take aim at the wrong targets.

To say they’re shooting wildly would be an understatement.

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We can’t deny that there is a spike in gun crime in Canada — Toronto was just shy of 500 shootings in 2019 compared to 177 shootings in 2014, just five years earlier.

Calgary, Ottawa and other major cities are either higher than the year before or higher than their multi-year average.

Most of the shootings are carried out by gangs using illegal handguns, and yet most of Trudeau’s efforts dealing with this very real problem are focused on legal and law-abiding gun owners.

He’s suggested confiscating rifles — with no crime history in Canada — while compensating the owners.

That could cost more than $1 billion.

He has said he will let cities ban handguns while ignoring that those committing the crimes are already using illegal guns.

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His latest claim is that we need “red flag laws” to take guns away from people who are a threat to themselves or others.

That power already exists under Canada’s existing firearms legislation.

But Liberals being Liberals can’t resist importing a good political trope from the United States. and “red flag laws” are big down there.

Anyone who has the slightest clue about Canada’s gun laws knows they are not the same as American laws — not even close.

Still, the Liberals import their arguments from their friends in the American Democratic Party, thus the focus on “red flag laws” and banning the AR-15 rifle.

The AR-15 is the most popular sporting rifle in North America, if not the world.

There are more than 75,000 of them in Canada legally, and that is a conservative estimate.

Despite that many rifles being in legal circulation, there is no history of the AR-15 being a crime gun in Canada.

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Not in any serious way.

There was a mob hit gone wrong a few years ago where one was used but that is an anomaly, it wasn’t legally owned.

This past weekend police in Brampton, Ontario put out a news release about several firearms being seized.

The two pistols are so small that they have never been legal in Canada and were obviously smuggled in, the rifle was described as an ‘AR-15.’

Yet despite giving Peel Police four days to give me an answer, they can’t actually tell me the make and model of the rifle — they simply say itlooks like an AR-15.

In truth it looks like an illegal, homemade rifle that was probably smuggled into the country along with the pistols.

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The problem in Canada is smuggled firearms — estimates range between 80% and 84% of crime guns being smuggled.

So why is the government trying to tell you that they will make you safe by taking rifles away from people who have not broken the law, bringing in more paperwork laws for law-abiding gun owners and leaving gangsters alone?

One of the worst parts is that the government will do this without debate and without releasing any supporting documents.

Researcher Dennis Young asked for documents related to a cost-benefit analysis of gun control measures and was told they could not be released.

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The opposition Conservatives have asked the government to produce information showing how many crimes have been committed with the guns they want to ban, something they have yet to do.

The Liberals know their plans won’t make you safer, but they hope you will feel safer knowing they have done ‘something.’

Trudeau’s Liberals need to take aim and fire at the real targets — gangs with smuggled guns — and leave legal gun owners alone.