Die Kosten für die Beschlagnahmung von Langwaffen werden in diesem Geschäftsjahr 100 Millionen US-Dollar übersteigen

> The amount of money allocated by Public Safety for the Liberals’ long gun ban announced four years ago has increased again, according to Public Safety’s most recent financial report, and means the combined total spent by Public Safety and the RCMP on the ban since its inception will eclipse $100M this fiscal year. **It has not yet confiscated a single firearm.**

If you had to sum up this Liberal government’s approach to governing, that paragraph does a pretty good job. Lots of big words, lots of lecturing and looking down their noses at people and lifestyles they don’t understand or approve of, lots of money spent, zero results.

With zero impact on public safety.

Lunacy.

Time and money better spent on better border security and customs audits. You can’t even buy most of the shit the criminals are using legally anyways

There are people who are currently employed and receiving salaries through this program, and they are here reading this thread.

What do you want them to know?

Just a reminder that since the advent of licensing/vetting firearms users in this country (which happened on the 1970s) the following decades of firearms legislation have been a complete failure from the perspective of reducing homicides or suicides.

This several decades period of legislation represents billions of dollars of spending, and given the reality of opportunity cost, has resulted in a greater incidence of firearms related harm in our society than had we applied those resources to data driven crime reduction strategies.

This recent legislation is more of the same.

Why do we continue to waste resources on legislation proven ineffective?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7302582/#pone.0234457.s001

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Conclusions

The finding of an association between unemployment, low income rates, the rates of aboriginal population, and provinces with a higher rate of suicide underscores and suggests areas for directed public health and harm reduction programs. No overall mortality reduction, but a shift from suicide by firearm in females and males age 45 and older to hanging, associated with current gun control programs, was found. This suggests that gun control methods to reduce suicide by firearms may have benefits but further actions to reduce suicide by controlling for other methods and suicide prevention programs could lower suicide rates in Canada.

No associated reductions in homicide with increasing firearms regulations suggests alternative approaches are necessary to reduce homicide by firearm.

Real action towards reducing the number of firearm deaths is necessary and calls to reduce firearms prevalence in the country have once again become a social and political issue [30,31]. Multifaceted strategies to reduce mortality associated with firearms may be required. Steps to reduce youth gang membership and violence through diversion and educational programs have shown promising results [32]. As well community based suicide prevention programs such as training of family physicians in the detection and treatment of depression and discussions about firearms, campaigns aimed at increasing awareness about depression, and follow-up of individuals who attempted suicide may result in lives saved [33]. Outreach to groups for which access to care may be a particular issue, such as Aboriginals, is of primary concern [34]

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Almost like guns weren’t the problem.

They haven’t confiscated anything since the start of this scam

How do I get a piece of this pie? I would totally agree to have everyone send me their prohibited rifles through the mail, and the government would only have to pay me 50 million to take them. Boom! Immediate savings of 50 million for the Canadian public. And, as an extra added bonus, I would agree to sell the guns back after the law changes again to the original owners for half of the list price, heck, a third of the list price, thus saving Canadians even more money. Just give me a crack at it and I will have this whole thing turned around in no time.

I want to sell my handguns but can’t 😂 

Anyone remember this

[Bill Blair, who served as the government’s pointman on gun control, said there are about 250,000 of the weapons now legally owned, with an average value of about $1,500 each. The buyback program is expected to cost between $400 million and $600 million, he said.](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-gun-control-trudeau-2019-1.5290950)

Remember when gun owners said it would cost billions, and people told them they were exaggerating or being hyperbolic

That’s only half a “dead body in a landfill search” cost.

Trudeau is making Chinas landing softer year by year

It shocks me that people will look at the costs of this program, see that it targets only lawful firearms owners, and still think it’s a great idea purely because “gun bad.”

Remind me why the government gives a single damn about long guns again???

Seems cheap up against what Doug Ford is going to spend to pull out a few bike lanes.

On the bright side, you give some government assholes an easy, good paying job.

Here is the important part. They are spending 100M and haven’t confiscated anything.

So literally, 100M in exchange for nothing.

Do Canadians feel more safe since this 2020 ban? Read the newspaper, look at statscan, listen to the RCMP. The 2020 ban, the pistol freeze, they did nothing. Gun crime has never been worse. Why? The Liberals are targeting the wrong group, while ignoring the offending group.

It’s the equivalent of breaking your wrist and the doctor prescribes ear drops then wonders why you don’t get better.