Opinion: We know we can save lives. We know how to prevent mass shootings. We have the evidence. Do politicians have the will?
Since that summer evening in 2018, Canada has endured at least seven additional mass shootings, killing 39 people, injuring many others, and traumatizing families and communities.
How then, did Members of Parliament fail to act — some regretfully, others gleefully — to permanently ban the types of semi-automatic assault-style firearms that have inflicted such terror? The withdrawing of the proposed amendments to Bill C-21 is a clear loss for public health and safety. The amendments would have enshrined in legislation the May, 2020 Order-in-Council banning more than 1,500 types of assault weapons and prohibited some additional guns including the SKS rifle used in recent mass shootings and in the killing of two police officers in Ontario last fall.
Certainly, the federal Liberal government has taken positive steps the last few years: stronger background checks, a freeze on the sale of handguns, and the 2020 ban. Yet the definitive action — permanently banning assault weapons — still eludes. My colleagues and I were left asking each other: what are MPs waiting for? More tears from survivors and victim families? More pleas from doctors and nurses? More research
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