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[iverglas]

What if he used a crossbow?
Or did you want to ban those too while
you're working on banning guns?

Oh look. *We* have.

http://www.canlii.org/ca/regu/sor98-462/whole.html

Regulations Prescribing Certain Firearms and other Weapons, Components and Parts of Weapons, Accessories, Cartridge Magazines, Ammunition and Projectiles as Prohibited or Restricted

7. A crossbow or similar device that

(a) is designed or altered to be aimed and fired by the action of one hand, whether or not it has been redesigned or subsequently altered to be aimed and fired by the action of both hands; or

(b) has a length not exceeding 500 mm.

A whole lot of other things, too: Mace, pepper spray, electric-shock thingies, and various kinds of nasty-sounding bladed devices and weapons-on-a-rope. And yet we're not dropping like flies for lack of the tools to defend ourselves with ...

Of course, *we* aren't "working on banning guns".