In Canada, you can own an AR-15 or any type of gun, but the police will take your gun if you're menatlly unfit. Isn't this a good idea?
In Canada, if you're diagnosed as mentally unstable, they take the guns until you're cleared. Then you can get your guns back / buy guns again. Canada has a 500 percent lower murder rate than the US per capita. Why do you think the US wouldn't apply the same rules?
2018-03-10T10:11:00Z
PS., in Florida, they just said teachers should have guns and to have them they need 40 hours of training and mental capacity tests to be issued guns. Why should only teachers be required to prove they're mentally competent and not everyone?
STEVEN F2018-03-10T19:15:38Z
You are COMPLETELY misrepresenting EVERYTHING you claim about Canadian gun laws AND crime rates.
If you are unstable the police will not approve you for the purchase in the first place. And yes, if you did have one and became unstable you will have to turn in any firearms you own. Whether you get them back someday depends on your psychiatrists.
Also, to buy a firearm including a weapon like the AR-15 in Canada when you apply for your Firearms Acquisition Certificate (FAC) you have to state a reason why you feel you need such a weapon. We believe that you should only have a weapon adequate to meet your needs and no more. If you feel your need to to potentially fight off a future tyrannical government it will be pointed out that the government had the public out gunned over a hundred years ago and there are no weapons sufficiently big to meet that need.
By the way nothing can be more than 100% lower. 100% less means zero. I think you are saying that Canada has less than 1/5 the murder rate of the USA which means it is 80% lower than the US rate.
Yeah that per capita isn’t a direct correlation, there are a lot less people per square mile in Canada than there are in the US. A lot less. Not that disarming a lunatic is the wrong thing to do, I’m just saying there are other significant variables involved.