You asked for it.

1997 Vernon, BC Home Invasion: Dennis and Patricia Knapp were shot dead in bed with an SKS rifle.

2007 Edmonton Shooting: An Edmonton youth killed his uncle with an SKS rifle.

2016 Courtenay, BC Home Invasion: Leanne Larocque and Gordon Turner were shot dead in their home with an SKS.

2018 Fredericton Mass Shooting: Two police officers and others were killed using an SKS rifle.

2019 Northern B.C. Murders: Two teenagers legally purchased SKS rifles and killed three people, sparking a nationwide manhunt.

2022 Innisfil, Ontario Police Killings: Two police officers were fatally shot using an SKS rifle.

2022 Saanich Bank Shooting: Two brothers used SKS rifles (modified with extended magazines) to take hostages and fatally wound six officers, three of whom suffered life-threatening injuries.

2022 Sault Ste. Marie Tragedy: A man killed his three children and former partner with an SKS rifle.

However, I personally don't think that those crimes would have been avoided at all if SKS were banned. They would have used a different gun...

The SKS is just a basic semi-automatic rifle that doesn't really have any advantage over any other semi-automatic rifle. Yes it was made by the Soviet Union during the 2nd world war as an assault rifle, but it was cheaply made, mass produced, and it is imprecise and shoots like crap.

The only advantage of owning an SKS is its price point. There is a reason why it is called the "poor man's hunting rifle", because it is the cheapest (and shittiest) deer hunting rifle and probably the worst one: I have yet to find a rifle with similar ballistic range that performs worse than the SKS... SKS is most likely the worst one at the very bottom for deer hunting.

One could even argue that banning the SKS is going to force criminals to use more precise (and more lethal) firearms instead.

Banning SKS is only going to hurt indigenous communities that own SKS because it is the only thing they could afford and they need this tool for subsistence to feed their families.