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Ottawa’s gun ‘buyback’ program will cost billions—and for no good reason
(www.fraserinstitute.org)
Another great take from a classic conservative "think tank" that kept defending the to acco industry....
In 1999, the Fraser Institute was criticized by health professionals and scientists for sponsoring two conferences on the tobacco industry entitled Junk Science, Junk Policy? Managing Risk and Regulation and Should Government Butt Out? The Pros and Cons of Tobacco Regulation. Critics charged the institute was associating itself with the tobacco industry's many attempts to discredit authentic scientific work.[15]
The Fraser Institute accepted donations worth $100,000 from Philip Morris for "publishing research studies" in 2011–2012.[19] Research produced by the Institute has previously argued that "tobacco taxation causes smuggling",[20] a common claim by corporations in the industry that has been disputed by public health officials and critics as exaggerated and erroneous.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Institute
I've got more guns than most Americans, definitely more than the average Canadian.
But anyone saying gun buy backs aren't effective are willfully ignorant. In the case of this think tank, likely in exchange for money