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'Buyback' pilot yielded a paltry 25 guns from 16 people
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Twenty-five guns. That’s all the federal government collected in a recent pilot project in Nova Scotia for its new “buyback” (a.k.a. expropriation) program for prohibited firearms. “A total of 25 prohibited firearms, turned in by 16 participants, were destroyed,” spokesperson Noémie Allard said Friday. “The total compensation paid to pilot participants is $26,535.”
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The target was 200 weapons, but that doesn’t faze Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree. “The pilot was never to test the quantitative aspect of the program,” he told reporters Monday. “As an overall pilot, I believe it is successful.”
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But what metric should be used, exactly? Are Canadians safer because these 16 people no longer posses these firearms? Will there be fewer carjackings or home invasions in the........