Gun control in Canada

Your task is to provide a critical assessment on the response to the issues of violence involving guns. Consider the following questions as guidance to your research:

· Is the ban on legally owned firearms appropriate? What is the nature of the ban?

· Is the ban targeting the correct audience to reduce violence where guns are a factor or as the media terms it, ‘gun crime’?

· Has the ban gone too far, or perhaps not far enough?

· Define what an assault rifle is to best of your ability and research. How many people have been killed in Canada in a shooting with an assault style rifle? You will be surprised.

· Is there a significant link between legal law-abiding gun owners and crime guns recovered by police?

Basically you are writing a 8 page brief on gun control in Canada and taking a position on whether the government has gone too far or not far enough in terms of its recent ban on 1500+ firearms and military weapons. Be sure to include a reference and cover page.

· Look to use government web pages, journal articles or even legal documents. Where media will play a strong role here is where it is providing coverage on court cases and viewpoints of Canadians.

· Submissions are considered formal documents requiring a title page

· Papers should be formatted with 1” margins, double line spacing

· Papers will be 8 page (2000 word double spaced) written pages plus cover page and reference page.

· While this is a formal document and normally written from an unbiased position, this time I am asking for your opinion. This opinion is to be supported by fact. Even though you will be providing a perspective on the specific approach, personal pronouns should not be used; e.g. I, me, my, mine. Rather than saying “I believe that the Minister should consider …. “ state it in a neutral format like, “It is assessed that the Minister should consider…”.