Anyways, one justification for guns that can do that much damage would be for big-game hunting, for example moose or elk.Depending on how exactly you define "more powerful", it's not exactly too hard to find common sorts of hunting rifles that would be "more powerful" than some of the weapons used by the RCMP. I could get into more specifics but I'm not sure how interested anyone is in that sort of thing.
Likewise I could go on at great length about many, many other things that have been posted here, but I'm a little late to the game on this one, and in the interest of general forum civility I don't see much point in doing so. I'll wait until another gun topic gets going in the future and hopefully get in early on that one.
I'm still very interested. I know nothing about guns and I am 100% against all of them. At the risk of sending the natives mad with fury, I must mention one thing Justin Trudeau said. He was accused of flip-flopping on the gun registry because he voted for it but said he won't bring it back. When he was challenged he said that when it still existed he wanted it preserved, but now that it is gone it is too divisive to bring back. He believes the way forward is to work with all stakeholders to build consensus.
That makes perfect sense to me, not that gun advocates should get to make the rules, but they should be part of the conversation which is timely.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/09/18/stephen-harper-attacks-justin-tr...
Harper also reached out to gun owners, apparently alluding to a recent decision by the RCMP to ban a previously legal rifle, the Swiss Arms Classic Green carbine.
Harper said it’s completely unacceptable that owners of the weapons should be subject to an “arbitrary stroke of a bureaucrat’s pen.”
Why did the RCMP make that decision?