Comments by "Pac Man" (@pacman3556) on "Police and crimestoppers team up to fight illegal firearms" video.

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  9.  @canadiansfor2A  Your logic and reasoning is all messed up: 1- "Every firearm could be banned today in the US and firearm crimes would go up, not down." This is open to interpretation depending on the time frame you give and you comment has no validity. A- The US has so many firearms that banning them today would take a 100 years to just get rid of the existing guns in their society. However if the production of guns were stopped today then given enough time enough guns would be removed from society and gun crime would drop B- we are not in the US. This is Canada and in Canada we do not have the same supply of guns in our society that the US has. If Canada bans guns it would take far less time to remove existing guns from our society. C- as mentioned to you many times that you either ignore or are too $tupid to understand. A simple look at countries that have banned guns and have strict gun laws proves you absolutely wrong. Any look at countries that have banned guns with strict laws has clearly shown a drop in the amount of gun violence. Even statistics within the US during times with stricter gun laws vs times with less strict gun laws shows a decrease in gun violence when there are strict gun laws in place and that is without even banning guns. Statistics from within the same country you use as an example proves you wrong and shows that stricter laws works at reducing crime. 2- "criminals would simply smuggle them into the country" Again your logic is wrong and your point is invalid: A- if the US the biggest supplier of guns banned guns then where are you suggesting they would smuggle their guns from? Most countries get their guns from the US not the other way around. If all countries got rid of guns there would be no place for people to smuggle them from (that is extreme there would still be sources but nothing like the vast supply the US has- in other words smuggling would become much more difficult) B- Again this is Canada not the US. And the fact that Canada smuggles in a lot of guns just reinforces that banning guns and strict gun laws works. When you talk about smuggled guns it does nothing to help your argument. It actually hurts your argument. Criminals get their guns from the easiest sources possible. If Canada were like the US criminals would just walk into the local Walmart and buy or steal a gun. The fact that they have to go all the way to the US then add another layer of risk/ criminal activity by risking the chances of getting caught smuggling something into the country proves that not having a vast supply of guns (like sitting in our local Walmarts) proves that banning guns and strict laws works. Every time you mention smuggling you just reinforce and prove that strict laws and bans works. If not then criminals would just get them inside our country without the risk or time of going all the way to the US. 3- "criminals don't care or follow our laws" Uh yeah....that is why they are criminals....are you not aware of what the word "criminal" means? 4- " will always find ways to hurt and kill people." That is open for interpretation. While it is true that criminals hurt and kill people we don't need to make it easier to hurt and kill people. We don't need to give them a vast supply of guns to choose from. A ban on guns will reduce the supply and make it harder for criminals to hurt and kill someone. Just because criminals won't change their behaviour doesn't mean that we have to make things easier for them to invoke their behaviour. And as part of the open for interpretation the harder we make it for people to become criminals the less potential criminals we have. The more guns you give people the easier it is for them to use it and become a criminal. There are hundreds of examples of people that were "nice guys" but in the heat of anger had a gun in their hand and used it to hurt or kill someone thus making them a criminal. Or lots of people that planned out a murder because they had access to a gun and thought they could get away with it. Take away the potential opportunity to give someone the chance to use a gun for criminal activity and criminal activity (or total criminals) is reduced. There are hundreds if not thousands of fist fights every year that end with people walking away as free citizens. Take those same people and give them a gun instead of just fists they become murderers or criminals To put it in another perspective suicide works in a similar way. People with guns are far more successful at killing themselves then people without guns because a gun is a quick fast decision to make. Take away the gun and the person is less likely to commit suicide because they have time to think or less successfully or less likely to die. 5- "It's better that law-abiding citizens be able to defend themselves from criminals" This has been proven to be absolutely false. The idea of you needing a gun for protection is absolutely ridiculous. You are far more likely to shoot yourself and/or your family then you are some random criminal You also don't have the right to pick and choose who you think is a criminal that you get to murder. 6- "'Im not sure where you two live,but it takes 30 plus mins for police to arrive where I live" I am going to say you are full of $hit and it all depends on why you call 911 A- police (and other emergency responders) respond based on the level of emergency called in. If you call in for a shoplifting incident or a minor fender bender traffic accident you probably will have to wait 30 minutes or more because it is a low priority call. However if you call in a mass shooting or gun shoots fired call it is high priority and police arrive fast. B- the average response time Canada is somewhere around 6 to 8 minutes. If we take your lie as truth and it takes 30 minutes for police to respond to a shooting in your area then it just reinforces the points made above. If it takes 30 minutes for police to reply to a shooting in your area then that would mean you are in some very remote area which means it is even more unlikely that you would ever need to defend yourself from some random criminal. Living in some extreme remote area you would be even more likely to use that gun to kill yourself or your family then some random criminal. 7- "A criminal or muiptle could break into my home kill me and my family and be long gone by the time the police arrive." If you are as law abiding citizen as you claim then police response time is moot. If you are law abiding you would have your gun locked in one safe and your ammo locked in another safe. A criminal would shoot you long before you could open two safes and load your gun then aim and shoot. You are not very law abiding if you keep your gun tucked under your pillow "just in case" However as already stated it is extremely unlikely you would ever be in that situation to begin with. You are far more likely to shoot your family then defend your home from a random burglar. (also burglars usually try to enter when nobody is home and look to steal things for money not go in while people are home and start killing people) 8- "When you have secs to live or die police are always mins away." You will never be in that position....your point is moot.....go back and read points above they all apply here.
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