Since the mass shooting in Nova Scotia back in 2020, the Canadian government has stepped up its anti-gun jihad, banning so-called assault weapons and freezing all transfers of handguns. This, as we’ve been told by our own anti-gunners, would make the country safer.
Unfortunately for them, the city of Toronto exists.
It seems that Toronto is kind of like the Chicago of Canada in that crime is terrible. How bad is it? Well…you might be better off in Chicago.
Carney’s legislative focus on honest gun owners, coupled with his assertion that “irresponsible American gun laws” enable criminals and illegal gun smuggling into Canada, conveniently divert attention from this dismal state of affairs. “Gun control in Canada,” sums up Dr. Gary Mauser, “is based on lies that the Liberals spread about guns and crime,” and chief among them is that measures like gun bans and buybacks will keep Canadians safe.
Mauser, a Canadian criminologist and emeritus professor at Simon Fraser University, has written and testified extensively on the issue of firearms and crime, and his recent article highlights the compelling differences in crime trends between America, with its “irresponsible” gun laws, and Canada.
“Almost all of the US is safer than Toronto,” he writes. “Canadians may be surprised to learn that murders in the US are concentrated in just a few places. Except for a few localities, half of the counties in the USA have no murders at all; many other counties have very few. There are more murders each year in Toronto than in most places in the US.” The factors contributing to this relatively greater security include the Trump administration’s “tremendous effort” to arrest or deport violent criminals and other offenders, citing 413,991 violent crime arrests and 868,330 property crime arrests. And, unlike Canadians, Americans enjoy and exercise a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Given the “wide-spread ownership of firearms and civic minded owners willing and able to defend themselves and their communities,” much of the United States “has both very high gun ownership rates and zero murders.”
In contrast, Canada’s laws “make it all but illegal for citizens to use a firearm to protect themselves or their families.” Mauser points out that violent crime in Canada has increased by 34 percent in the last decade; repeat offenders get bail, imprisoned offenders are typically released early, and the federal government has, it seems, no interest in keeping track of how many illegal immigrants are in the country.
Meanwhile, despite the spike in violent crimes during 2020 and 2021, we’ve seen significant declines in the violent crime rate since then, including the massive drop in homicides over the last two years. This drop comes after the Bruen decision made it so states couldn’t block law-abiding folks from getting carry permits, thus putting more guns on the streets than ever before.
Yeah, we still have high-crime areas, and it’s funny how most of the crimes come out of urban areas that routinely vote for anti-gun public officials. It’s almost like the two have some kind of causal relationship, isn’t it?
Canada, like the United States, has its crime in certain places. Many areas of the country don’t see any homicides to speak of. They don’t have armed robberies every night, and their police departments aren’t overworked trying to derail the domino effect that follows a gang shooting. They’re peaceful places.
Their peace, however, isn’t because of gun control, and we know that because those same areas exist here in the United States and in pro-gun parts of it.
But places like Toronto aren’t peaceful. They’re worse than most places in the United States, and still some of these folks want to lecture us about gun laws. They can’t keep one of their major cities safe despite everything they’ve passed, so maybe all of them should sit down, shut up, and let the grown-ups point out how absolutely ridiculous it is to disarm the law-abiding because the non-law-abiding aren’t abiding by the law.
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