What happens when these ones and the handguns are gone? It's going to be the same conversation. “Well, you still have two rifles left. You can certainly use those.”
To be fair, the onus isn't on me to prove why I should still own guns. The onus is on the government to prove that it's going to have a demonstrable positive effect on public safety. It keeps getting switched around. Somehow, I have to defend what I've been doing for 20 years and what Canadians have been doing for over 100 years. Now the onus is on us.
The government has all of the data. It has everything. It should be able to show us. Have we seen any data that this will have a demonstrable positive effect on public safety? I've watched every hearing and I haven't seen any yet. I've seen lots of rhetoric. We've had all kinds of interesting things happen tonight, but I haven't seen any real data.
It's just, “You know, you don't really need them anyway.” I have to disagree. There are two million people who own firearms and 650,000 who are licensed to own handguns, and we haven't done anything.