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As a firearms owner in Canada, I see this happen a lot. Laws are put into place in the name of safety, to make people feel good, but do nothing for anyone but harass law abiding citizens.

Anti-gun advocates often peak their activity after a massacre, using the fear it generates to drive goals that make no sense when looked at from a calm, rational mind. This goal is usually to ban firearms, and/or parts of firearms, and/or styles of firearms, and/or firearm accessories (Anything they can get really).

Guns are banned. No guns? No shootings right? Maybe in a world of gumdrops and pixies.

The word 'Ban' is often used during their anti-gun campaigns because the word carries the sense that it makes things go away. What is really happening is things are being made illegal.

Criminals are criminals because they commit crimes. It sounds very obvious but needs to be said as supporters for these types of laws are blind to anything outside their train of thought. If guns are made illegal, this won't stop criminals from using them. The anti-gun groups are trying to stop murder, massacres, gun violence, and robberies. All of these activities are, guess what, already illegal. If you ban guns, it will just be another item to add to the list of laws that the criminals won't follow.

These laws do one thing very well though, which is to inconvenience law abiding citizens to the extreme. Being law abiding citizens, we follow the law with little regard to how ridiculous it is. One good example comes to mind, the ban on high capacity magazines. Often a rivet is put into a magazine to prevent it from being filled to full capacity. This law was put into effect after a massacre, where afterwards they argued that a lower capacity magazine wouldn't have allowed the killer to shoot as many bullets. We leave these rivets in our magazines because it is the law. If this law was in place before the massacre that marked its creation, do you think the killer would hesitate in removing the rivet if they were already planning to break a law infinitely worse?

In the end as a law abiding Canadian citizen, I have to jump through hoops and swim through paperwork just so to have the privileged of ownership. Being able to even use the gun is an entirely different set of papers and regulations. Meanwhile thugs and gangsters are walking around with handguns tucked in their waists.