Canada just showed how to reduce gun violence.
Canada moved to make the sale of handguns illegal under a sweeping new bill introduced in Ottawa Monday in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas school shooting.
Flanked by government officials and advocates, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a “national freeze” on firearms in the country as he referenced increasing homicides in Canada and alluded to recent mass shootings south of the border.
“It will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in Canada. In other words, we’re capping the market for handguns,” Trudeau said.
“People should be free to go to the supermarket, their school or their place of worship without fear.”
The legislation is all but assured to be approved by Canada’s Parliament, and is expected to be enacted this fall. The country has already unveiled plans to ban 1,500 types of military-style firearms and implement a mandatory buyback program of high-capacity weapons.
The problem, of course, is that a similar bill would never pass here, but there WAS a time it would have.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/30/canada-moves-to-ban-sale-of-handguns-in-sweeping-bill/
In 1933, FDR proclaimed a bank holiday on March 6, 1933. The creation of the FDIC restored people's confidence in the banking system, and people put money back into banks when they reopened on March 13.
What would happen after the mid-terms that Biden announced a weapons holiday that would stop all gun sales until Congress passed proper gun control measures.
https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/epr/09v15n1/0907silb.html
In 1950, Harry Truman declared a national emergency, and ordered the Army to seize the railroads.
In a public statement that day, Truman insisted that “governmental seizure [of the railroads] is imperative” for the protection of American citizens as well as “essential to the national defense and security of the Nation.” He used the same justification for seizing control of steel plants when the United Steel Workers union struck later in the year.
The ongoing carnage in our country threatens the security of our nation, so a national temporary national freeze on gun sales makes perfect sense, but it definitely would "stir the pot".
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truman-orders-army-to-seize-control-of-railroads