OK. Apparently, she is serious.
It’s a device that has killed a Winnipeg teen and led a man to lose an eye, all within one month’s time.
Yet it is still sold with few mandatory restrictions.In the wake of a recent death and a separate serious injury, our treatment of the pellet gun is due for a change.
It’s time to treat these guns meant for target practice like the weapons they can become in criminal or inexperienced hands.
Presently, the devices can be bought for $30 to $300 each, most without a licence.
The main difference between pellet and so-called “real” guns is the pellet version doesn’t contain real bullets.
But firing at speeds of up to 138 metres per second, they do reach velocities perilously close to those defined as real firearms by Canadian law. The minimum speed to warrant that distinction is 152 metres per second.
Meanwhile, evidence of the need for stricter control of these guns keeps adding up.
A kid and his buddy stole a pellet gun from a neighbor’s garage and the buddy put one through his eye and into his skull fast enough to kill him.
I say into his skull and not into his brain because the kid doesn’t seem to have had any.
And it seems that Ms. Pursaga doesn’t either because none of the measures she proposes would have stopped the theft or the discharge.
Next she’ll be advocating the licensing of skateboards.
Found at Gun Pundit
Wonder if anyone in Canada realizes that this kids unfamiliarity with guns and gun-safety is part of what killed him. All this time spent “protecting” the populace from guns instead of teaching them gun safety…and they are surprised when someone doesn’t know or follow the 4-Rules.