Honesty

Alternate headline: “Statistician obviously never wants a job in media again...”

"By the time we published our project, I didn’t believe in many of the interventions I’d heard politicians tout.

I was still anti-gun, at least from the point of view of most gun owners, and I don’t want a gun in my home, as I think the risk outweighs the benefits.

But I can’t endorse policies whose only selling point is that gun owners hate them."

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RELATED: Who really believes...

...if you take legal guns away from law-abiding citizens, there will be no more crazy people, no more criminals...

"Actually, the CBC's total cost figure of $2 billion for the entire gun registry "file" amounts to about $685,000 per day, which means they spent the entire initially estimated budget of $2 million, again according to the CBC, every three days, for eight years straight."

Let's remember that "only 0.00555% of Canada's two million licensed gun owners used their firearm to kill someone."

Well, obviously we have to take these engines of death out of the hands of private citiz... wait a minute...

In 2015, the number of motor vehicle fatalities in Canada was 1,858, with 10,280 serious injuries.

Assuming, as with stats in the U.S., that half of these "killings" were actually suicides... you are 30 times more likely to be killed in your car on your daily commute than by a legal firearms owner.

Let the lawsuits against the Big Three automakers commence.

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MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH:

- TORONTO - One person has been pronounced dead after a shooting at Islington Avenue and Dixon Road area shortly before 3 p.m. on Thursday afternoon.

Not to be confused with yesterday's incident...

Just after 1 p.m., Toronto police said they responded to a call for three to four gunshots fired in the Eglinton Ave. E., and Brimley Rd. area., said Toronto police spokesperson Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook.

One male was transported to hospital with serious gunshot wounds.

More good news for "the community"...

"A man who spent more than a decade behind bars for a 2004 drive-by shooting is now free after charges against him were stayed on Thursday. Jason Wisdom had been convicted of murder, attempted murder and murder to benefit a criminal organization."

Yippee!!!