Utopias are, in theory, beautiful things. Everything is rainbows and unicorns. Everyone is happy. Everyone walks around with a perpetual smile on their faces.
It sounds fantastic on the surface.
Like the video game We Happy Few, in which the people are required to take daily drugs which make them happy… and compliant, the reality of utopias is actually pretty dark.
Just look at Ukraine under Stalin’s Soviet Union. Or the Chinese people under Mao Zedong. Or Cambodians under Pol Pot. All utopian leaders trying to turn their countries into utopias.
And all being directly responsible for the deaths of countless innocent people.
It’s worth noting that utopias of any kind ignore the reality of the world that we live in, and that’s true when it comes to gun control, too.
Those who push gun control sell it to people as creating a utopia of being free from crime. Yet, the reality is different from the sales pitch. Just look at Toronto, Canada. James Yang writes,
When armed intruders attacked a sleeping family of four with guns and a hammer in Toronto’s Bridle Path neighbourhood last week, the incident stood out for its brutality. But home invasions themselves no longer stand out so much for their rarity.
In the first nine months of 2026, Toronto recorded 112 home-invasion robberies, according to police data, surpassing the 103 reported throughout the entire year of 2025.
That already makes 2026 the second-worst year for home-invasion robberies in the period covered by the data, even if no more occur this year. Only 2024 recorded more, with 160 incidents, averaging more than three per week.
The Toronto Police Service data show a sharp but uneven increase in the 12-year reported period— from 2014 to 2026.
The thing is, since October 2022, Canadians haven’t been able to buy, sell, or transfer handguns in Canada, and gun laws in Canada are characterized as “strict.”
Yet, criminals are getting their hands on guns, and criminals are committing crimes with guns.
And home invasions, including violent home invasions, have increased dramatically in Toronto over the last few years.
So, is gun control working in Canada? If your intent is to create the dystopian type of “utopia” that I talked about earlier, then, yes, gun control is working.
If you’re wanting to make Canadians safer, though, then, no, this is another example of a giant gun control failure.
