John Lott on Canada's gun problem

John Lott has written an excellent article regarding Canada's recent blaming of their "gun problems" on the United States:

Of course, there is a minor little problem with the attacks on the U.S.. Canadians really don't know what the facts are. The reason is simple: despite billions of dollars spent on the Canada's gun registration program and the program not actually solving any crimes, the government does not even know the number of crime guns seized in Canada, let alone where those crime guns came from. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police reported in late-July that they "cannot know if [the guns] were traceable or where they might have been traced." Thus, even if smuggled guns were an important problem, the Canadian government doesn't know if it is worse now than in the past.