What about baseball bats, hockey sticks, hammers, and countless other tools we use from day to day. They all make good weapons.
And the bad guys will migrate to them if the need be.
When will this silliness end

I agree with Ben...we already have the laws, but what we DON"T have is judges that will enforce them!
That is the REAL problem!
And lose the gun registry that only made criminals out of honest people, for a billion dollars a year!
The Conservatives said they would, but they seem to have forgotten that promise.
I plan to remember that little oversight at election time.

when it come to the Gun registry Go to
lufa.ca It says it all.
Registry leads to confiscation.
Just ask the people that are trying to re-register their firearms.
The dipsticks in Ottawa will do anything to disarm the honest law abiding citizens.

Andy you vote Liberal if you think that will get rid of the gun registry any faster. How do you propose the Conservatives get it through parliament with a minority government?

The conservatives have been able to get anything they want through a minority parliament, because the opposition has been in no position to enter into an election. So why not scrap the gun registry? My guess is because the urban population is in favour of it, and they don't want to lose their votes.

We should also register Frozen Salmon, Pork Hocks, Salomi, and Kubasa, along with rope, skates, hockey sticks and bottles.

Gonna need a permit to hold a parade where a lotta people wave swords and scimitars about? What a country. Too many rules, too many laws and too many taxes.

Salami nunchuks next? Ha ha ha

I fear the future. Conformity may be a problem for me.
metalman.

Ruez,If the Conservatives really wanted to get rid of the gun registry, it would be already gone.
What Harper wants,Harper gets, and the opposition would not force an election over it.
Not a pair of family jewels among them!

What's wrong with stiffer penalties for people who use knives in the commission of a crime?

Plea bargaining is also used in the USA, so that process should not skew the stats between Canada and the USA. In addition, unless the plea bargaining is able to remove from the records the fact that a weapon of any sort was used, whatever the crime committed should still be recorded as a vilolent crime or a crime conducted with a weapon.

Maybe someone who works in the justice system can explain that the fact that a weapon was used typcially gets lost in a plea bargaining system.

Other than that, I think that tall people can be quite intimidating to some. I think tall people should get increased penalties over short people who one may feel can be overpowered.

I also think Asian people can be quite intimidating since many people think they typically are martial arts experts, thus their whole body becomes a deadly weapon.

;-)

"What's wrong with stiffer penalties for people who use knives in the commission of a crime?"

more jails, more tax dollars ..... how about reducing the time in jail if the crime was a non-violent crime without the use of a weapon? ... less jails less tax dollars more unemployement ...

"The judges are constantly being blamed for the problem when in reality, it is government that sets the guidelines for the sentences that are handed out. Judges just follow the rules they don’t make them."

Judges would probably object strenuously if their discretionary power to consider matters like mitigating circumstances is taken away and their role is simply reduced to applying automatic sentences even if they believe that in a particular case a very long sentence would be *unfair* or counterproductive.

It does appear though that in far too many cases the rehabilitation aspect (even in the case of hardened criminals) has been given priority over the benefits of a real meaningful stiff long term sentence with its prospective deterrent effect. This also keeps the criminal from being in the position from committing additional crimes by the reality of being actually locked up.

"Fewer jails fewer tax dollars more unemployment". Now, doesn't that sound better? I think so.