
Gun laws 32 years after the École Polytechnique mass shooting
The Decibel
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Hand Guns
There's a great political will on behalf of everybody in this country to really get rid of those guns. There also isn't as many of them in this country as there are hand guns. So eradicating hand guns from canada with a byback programme would be a very pricy proposition. Just going afterroughly a hundred thousand semi automatic rifles in this country. The estimates range from 200 million to a billion dollars. Even that's not going to be cheap hand guns. It would be a many, many more dollars. And the rash of mass shootings they have had, really since columbine, it's almost been never ending.
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