Offences involving handguns is a “serious and growing societal danger”.[1]
There is a strong emphasis on the need to denounce and deter the use of firearms in public places.[2]
There has been judicial notice that as of 2007 there has been a national increase in gun violence and gun-related offences.[3]
↑ R v Danvers [2005] OJ 3532 ONCA at 77 R. v. Bellamy,2008 CanLII 26259 (ON SC), [2008] 175 C.R.R. (2d) 241, at para. 76 R. v. Brown, [2006] O.J. No. 4681 (Ont. S.C.J.) at para. 9
