There are two kinds of gun owners but we rarely hear about the good ones — those who fill out the necessary paperwork and take a course, as required by the new Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act, which received Royal Assent in June.
Sadly, what we hear most about are those who are using weapons to deal out gang retaliation, as in Surrey, or, more tragically, to kill innocents, as in the death of a Vancouver city worker in Burnaby or that of a Surrey realtor and father of two who tried to stop a break in. Recently in the Tri-Cities, a gun was used to rob Burke Mountain’s neighbourhood 7-Eleven.
The suburbs appear to be rife with hand guns, if you follow the local news very closely, and any sane person would wonder why this is the case. There have been efforts to crack down on guns but unfortunately, more federal rules don’t seem to be making any difference.
