Day comments on suggested handgun ban – FYI
Date: Jun 12, 2007 10:03 AM

Subject: Day comments on suggested handgun ban – FYI

Minister Day appeared on “Mike Duffy Live” yesterday (June 11) and had
the following comments in relation to a question on the handgun ban.

Feel free to share the transcript.

Transcript Begins:

Mike Duffy: Finally, a story in today’s Toronto Star relating to the gun
registry. What’s going on there?

Minister Day: I know, you know, especially Mike in light of these
tragedies that have happened, this is heartbreaking stuff for the
families. The fact is in Toronto, the City of Toronto, over the last
year, their police force have undertaken the type of measures that we
have said all along would result in reduced crime with firearms. They
have been more aggressive in terms of officers on the street, we’re
assisting on the resource side in terms of going after smuggling with
guns, and getting more aggressive on the criminals. By the City of
Toronto police taking those measures, gun crime has gone down
significantly in the last year in Toronto, notwithstanding these two
recent tragic events.

We don’t need police officers running around trying to ban firearms that
are owned by collectors and sport shooters. We’ve got to take our
precious resources and go after the criminals.

Mike Duffy: Well, Premier McGuinty says they should ban all handguns.
We’ve had handgun registries since the ’30′s and I think the Mayor of
Toronto said the same thing. The answer to their problem is ban all
handguns. What would that do?

Minister Day: It would create a diversion for police officers. They
would have to go after the thousands of innocent people who collect
firearms, who can only use handguns when they’re going to a shooting
range and they have to have a permit for that. You don’t take officers
who want to be going after the criminals and focus them on innocent
people. Mike, if we thought it would work we’d look at it. But in the
UK, in Ireland, in Jamaica, in other jurisdictions where they’ve tried
this so-called handgun ban we’ve seen stats go up, not down. We want to
do things that work. The City of Toronto police have done a great job
reducing gun crime by going after the criminals. That’s what we want to
help them on.

Mike Duffy: Stockwell Day, thanks very much for joining us. Appreciate
it.

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