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Canada has diverged from the UK and Australia in this unfortunately. Im not sure why? Anyone?
The Great Gun Control Debate- 2.0
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Halifax Tar
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Our Government hates a certain segment of our population.
On a more serious note, because our government cares more about optics and speaking points than actually creating useful legislation.
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There's no ideologically motivated pro-gun lobby.
Our side refers to it as property and a hobby.
They refer to guns as demonic tools of destruction.
In a battle of passions obvious which side has the edge.
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Because Canadians are naturally unwilling to do much about the government? We are a extremely passive people who generally can't be bothered to do much about anything.
The Trucker Convoy (support it or not) was the first real protest movement not run by professional protesters I have ever seen in this country. Every other serious protest I have seen has basically been around native rights, usually politically supported/run by the various native government/s and basically always in the summer time.
Compare that to say France, where just a couple days ago there was rioting in the streets because someone shot 3 Kurds and they arrested the suspect. To put a compariable spin on it, imagine if Canadians had rioted after the Mosque shooting in Quebec in 2017. You just wouldn't see it.
CERB repayment is another example of people being passive. In many countries there would be rioting over that and the government would just let them keep it. Here we tolerate it, maybe bitch a little, then go along with it.
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Probably because on the whole, they know that the government will be pretty inept at recovering the majority of the over payments…
Eye In The Sky
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Or the government doesn’t want citizens to outgun them. It’s happened a few times in history.
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Staple of a stable democracy
The fourth pillar
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OldSolduer
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The only misinformation and disinformation is coming from this government and the lapdogs that advise it. He’s not honest at all .
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Halifax Tar
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I suppose the banners might be tracking the stories from the US about a handful of incidents in which transmission substations have been sabotaged by (rifle) gunfire. Going to have to ban pretty much everything, now, before angry people start to retaliate in ways that could cost much more money than anyone can spare.
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…and continuing to look the opposite direction to all the illegal weapons users committing crimes and having bleeding hearts let them get out on bail and promise not to to things like have firearms…or murder police officers…but hey, unicorns and pixie dust will keep most Canadians safe…
Halifax Tar
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Going after the illegal weapons is expensive, time consuming; and can lead politically sticky, hand wringing situations.
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Just another example of looking for the keys under the lamp where the light is better, instead of the dark alley where they were last seen.
OldSolduer
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Yes and its so hard I know.... the issue here is that most of the anti gun people have zero experience with firearms and to add zero street smarts.
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This old boy is saying what everyone is thinking. Good on him.
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failure is an option
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I can safely say if they did try to do their pilot on me right now I would tell them to pound sand as I have at least until September to be in possession legally. They wouldn't have a leg to stand on to order me to surrender it as the amnesty lasts until then.
I am glad no private company wants anything to do with this, people fail to realize firearms have been the largest case of non-compliance with a law in Canadian history. Before they did the long gun registry they estimated over 20-30 million firearms in country. After long gun registry they only say 8 million. Based off the amount of people I have met which had unregistered firearms, that 20-30 million seems like it was a relatively accurate estimate. Likely the largest single failure to implement law in Canadian history. There isn't going to be a mention of that in the history books though.
I am glad no private company wants anything to do with this, people fail to realize firearms have been the largest case of non-compliance with a law in Canadian history. Before they did the long gun registry they estimated over 20-30 million firearms in country. After long gun registry they only say 8 million. Based off the amount of people I have met which had unregistered firearms, that 20-30 million seems like it was a relatively accurate estimate. Likely the largest single failure to implement law in Canadian history. There isn't going to be a mention of that in the history books though.
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