Partisan bickering over guns doesn’t solve for ‘why’

We’ve stepped back to the familiar Canadian box of Liberals and Conservatives seeking different headlines in the circular gun control debate. That solves nothing.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino gestures to his Liberal cabinet colleagues, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, and Justice Minister David Lametti, during a press conference announce new government gun control measures on May 30. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

June 1, 2022

OTTAWA—On May 24, 19 children and two adults were brutally massacred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. As has happened almost every time it happens (and it happens too frequently), a debate breaks out about gun control. That discussion starts in the United States, where, sadly, more ofte...

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